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Article: I can no longer eat just what I want at meals; How having a lactose intolerance can rule out hundreds of foods from cake to cottage pie in the pub.(News)
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- Birmingham Mail (England)
- Article date:
- November 21, 2006
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Byline: By Diane Parkes
THERE is nothing Barbara Allbutt would like more than a cheese sandwich - but just that one lunch could cause her untold problems because she is lactose intolerant. A more common problem than many realise, there are thousands of people in the UK who cannot eat produce that contain lactose such as milk, cheese, butter and cream. But that is only the tip of the iceberg because Barbara cannot eat any product which has lactose as an ingredient - ruling out hundreds of foods from biscuits and cakes in the supermarket to mash and cottage pie in the pub.
Lactose, which is found naturally in milk, can be labelled under countless other ...