Your cup of coffee with creamer in it can do it. The milk in your daily morning bowl of cereal. Lactose is found in milk based products galore. Lactose is also hidden in products that you may not considerer to be dairy products. Cake, brownies, any sweets containing chocolate are likely to contain lactose or ...
Around the age of 18, I became one of the many people who are lactose intolerant. When I say many people, I mean many. About 70% of the world’s population is lactose intolerant. Many people have no idea that the symptoms they are experiencing are signs of lactose intolerance. Even worse, many people are misdiagnosed ...
Being lactose intolerant is hard enough as an adult but for it a kid it can be even harder. What kid doesn’t want to eat chocolate chip cookies fresh from the oven with a cold glass of milk. Birthday parties are the worst because while all the other kids are eating ice cream and cake ...
Simply put, Lactose Intolerance is the body’s inability to tolerate, or digest, lactose. Lactose is the sugar that’s found in dairy products such as milk, cheese and ice cream. If your body’s small intestine doesn’t produce enough of the enzyme called “Lactase”, then you probably have problems digesting milk products properly. An estimated thirty to ...
When my oldest daughter was a baby, through some trial and error I noticed that she cried a lot less and slept a lot better when I didn’t consume products made with cow’s milk. Since I was breastfeeding, yummy stuff like milk on my cereal, yogurt, cheese and ice cream really seemed to make her ...
What? Yes, that’s what the title of this article reads, and its not a joke. It’s really great to be lactose intolerant for a number of reasons. Lactose intolerant people are a part of a specific group of people who have symptoms when they consume dairy products. These sypmptoms include anything from gas to stomach ...
It is not uncommon for people’s body to change as they get older and suddenly develop an intolerance to Lactose. Basically, being “Lactose Intolerant” means that your body is now unable to digest and absorb lactose (the sugar in milk) and can cause gastrointestinal symptoms when milk, or any product containing milk, is consumed. Until ...
Many people confuse milk allergies and lactose intolerance for the same problem. However, they are quite different. As should be obvious, lactose intolerance only involves lactose. Now while this is in milk, people suffering from this ailment (caused by a lack of lactase, the enzyme used to break down lactose sugars) will incur mild to ...
If you’re lactose intolerant, something as simple as drinking a glass of milk can cause a host of unpleasant symptoms, including abdominal cramps, bloating, diarrhea, flatulence, and nausea. If you are lactose intolerant, your small intestine doesn’t produce enough lactase, an enzyme your body needs to digest the lactose found in milk and dairy products. ...