Re: To scoff or not to scoff

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Quentin Grady wrote:
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On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:12:23 GMT, "Julie Bove"
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Never the less I decided to buy it. I realised I scoffed more than I
should about people who claimed gluten intolerance and lactose
intolerance.

Since I was a teen, I was told I had lactose intolerance. But now I know it is a full out dairy allergy.


G'day G'day Julie,

Lactose is a carbohydrate with the simple sugars joined by a beta
linkage. Beta linkages produce straight chains rather than the
spirals found in starch which have alpha linkages.

Beta linkages generally make things completely inedible for humans.
Cotton and paper make good examples. They all have beta linkages. What is surprising is that ANYBODY can digest lactose. Yet a few
people can. I say a few people because only those descended from
herding populations retain the ability to digest lactose past infancy.

The important learning here is that food intolerances are primarily a
matter of faulty digestion or in the case of lactose a lack of
exceptional digestion.

What of the "full out dairy allergy?"

Is that also a matter of faulty digestion?

IMHO it is. Most people digest the proteins found in milk fully.

Milk allergy, as measured immunologically is actually pretty common, here at least.

As a baby, I had an awful reaction to cow milk, but I outgrew it. Year's later when I had serological allergy testing, I was still allergic, but the effects were less pronounced, and probably more of a chronic irritant, certainly not acute.

I consume dairy regularly, still. Dunno if I still have an allergic response I'm unaware of.

Susan
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