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Article: Lactose intolerance // Supplements bring relief to people who can't stomach milk
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 24, 1987
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Despite those cheery Dairy Council ads, with healthy, active
young people raising glasses of foamy, ice cold milk to their
delighted lips, there is a dark side to the popular white beverage.
The milk you buy in the supermarket has myriad nutritional
benefits - protein, calcium, vitamin D - but it also has one big
drawback: Nature intended it to be consumed by calves.
In their several stomachs, calves have no problem properly
digesting milk. People, however, with their one stomach, sometimes
have trouble with it.
Milk is a complex mixture of protein, sugar, fat and inorganic
salts. All of these can cause problems of one sort or another, from
allergic reactions to the proteins to an ...