Re: More Bad News About Dairy

From: Alf Christophersen (alf.christophersen_at_basalmed.uio.no)
Date: 03/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:31:42 +0100

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 07:02:57 -0500, "Pizza Girl" <nospam@4.me> wrote:

>Sorry. Lactase is a product. Lactose is the phoney problem the dairy
>industry made up so they could resolve something that was killing their
>industry.

Lactase is an enzyme made in your villii, an enzyme capable of
breaking down lactose, the main disaccharide found in milk,made up by
glucose and galactose.

Neither lactase nor lactose is some dairy producers fictions. They
have been around for many millions of years.

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