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Topic	Do you like cheese?
ParanoidObsessive 10/17/21 6:08:17 PM #29:	papercup posted... Dude, like outside of North America and Europe, like 90% of the rest of the world can't digest dairy. Cheese is pretty much a European and American thing only. It's not really that simple. Lactose intolerance isn't a giant switch that gets flipped either on or off. It's a question of percentage for any given population, and a question of degree for people who do have it. For example, I have very mild lactose intolerance - if I eat a lot of cheese or other dairy I get really, really phlegmy and start to have sinus issues. But my cousin can't touch anything dairy at all and has spent his whole life using stuff like rice milk and almond milk as substitutes. Michael Jones from Achievement Hunter is somewhere in-between - he eats tons of cheese, but when he eats a lot he gets a bit bloated, gassy, and can suffer from minor stomach pain. Some people can eat it in small doses but have trouble with larger ones, some can eat it if they take medicine like Lactaid, and some can't eat it at all no matter what. People of Northern European descent have about a 90% chance of being fine and a 10% chance of being lactose intolerant to some degree, while East Asia (ex, China) are the reverse of that, with about 10% fine and 90% intolerant. But keep in mind that still means something like 150 million people (aka about half the population of the US) in China alone are fine with eating dairy. It actually tends to pair fairly commonly with alcohol tolerance as a trait - most East Asians tend to have much weaker tolerance for alcohol, while Northern Europeans tend to be significantly better at processing alcohol. Whether it's a causal relationship, correlation due to other factors, or a complete coincidence isn't entirely known, but it's definitely correlated to some degree. And it's worth remembering that this is all about cow milk - other animals don't necessary have the same problem for humans that cow milk does (especially when you consider that nearly every human in history was raised drinking human milk). So it depends entirely on what sort of dairy you're talking about as well. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:959132840] in Do you lik... [t:79715285]...</cite> <quote><cite>papercup posted...</cite> <quote>Dude, like outside of North America and Europe, like 90% of the rest of the world can't digest dairy. Cheese is pretty much a European and American thing only.</quote> It's not really that simple. Lactose intolerance isn't a giant switch that gets flipped either on or off. It's a question of percentage for any given population, and a question of degree for people who do have it. For example, I have very mild lactose intolerance - if I eat a lot of cheese or other dairy I get really, really phlegmy and start to have sinus issues. But my cousin can't touch anything dairy at all and has spent his whole life using stuff like rice milk and almond milk as substitutes. Michael Jones from Achievement Hunter is somewhere in-between - he eats tons of cheese, but when he eats a lot he gets a bit bloated, gassy, and can suffer from minor stomach pain. Some people can eat it in small doses but have trouble with larger ones, some can eat it if they take medicine like Lactaid, and some can't eat it at all no matter what. People of Northern European descent have about a 90% chance of being fine and a 10% chance of being lactose intolerant to some degree, while East Asia (ex, China) are the reverse of that, with about 10% fine and 90% intolerant. But keep in mind that still means something like 150 million people (aka about half the population of the US) in China alone are fine with eating dairy. It actually tends to pair fairly commonly with alcohol tolerance as a trait - most East Asians tend to have much weaker tolerance for alcohol, while Northern Europeans tend to be significantly better at processing alcohol. Whether it's a causal relationship, correlation due to other factors, or a complete coincidence isn't entirely known, but it's definitely correlated to some degree. And it's worth remembering that this is all about cow milk - other animals don't necessary have the same problem for humans that cow milk does (especially when you consider that nearly every human in history was raised drinking human milk). So it depends entirely on what sort of dairy you're talking about as well. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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