Re: More Bad News About Dairy

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

Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:31:43 +0100

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 10:13:48 -0500, "Bob (this one)" <Bob@nospam.com>
wrote:

>Lactose intolerance is actually lactase deficiency. Not enough lactase
>being made by the body to digest dairy. I happen to think that, while I
>like dairy, it's another food family with no demonstrated need in human
>nutrition. It's a fairly recent addition to our diets (since the
>agricultural revolution) and we haven't adapted to it as a species very
>well. Maybe in another quarter million years...

Most possibly it is opposite. There was nomad cultures drifting cow
herds long time before that revolution.Those people was lactose
tolerant. These nomads who also seemed to have used horses are thought
to have been around and north of Caspasian sea for long periods.

Agriculture revolution came around when they understood to grow wheat
(precursors of wheat) and refine them by selection of the seeds that
was not easily dropping of the stem. And in turn, understood how to
irrigate the fields, thus leaving the non-irrigated land (gann edin in
sumererian (very alike gan eden in hebraic which is Paradise, but
probably originally gann edin))