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Old Sat, Sep-26-09, 12:17
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The guy who wote Fit for Life is a vegetarian so he has got his own issues with dairy. Man has been drinking milk ever since he domesticated cattle which were first domesticated in the Middle East during the Neolithic period, about 8000 years ago. Cetainly people of Europian descent can digest milk:


Lacthttp://www.rationalresponders.com/forum/yellow_number_five/evolution_of_life/5124
lactase persistence (also called lactose tolerance), the continued production of the enzyme lactase that breaks down the sugar lactose in milk, correlates heavily with populations currently or once based on dairy farming, estimated to have begun in Europe roughly 8,000 to 9,000 years ago. (Populations in the Middle East and northeastern Africa also have the ability to digest milk.) "There's pretty good evidence that it's the most strongly selected single gene variant in Europeans in the last 30,000 years," says Mark Thomas, a genetic anthropologist at University College London and co-author of a new study in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.


Generally in food combining circles it is agreed that milk is poorly digested but yogurt is fine as the fermetation process alters the proteins to make them more digestable.

I'd say eat low fat yogurt.
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