nordic currents

[Lactose Intolerace] I developed lactose intolerance as an adult. Some years ago I started having stomach aches for no apparent reason. At the time I was working a lot - not extreme in any way but still with some stress so I thought that was the reason for an upset stomach. A doctor suggested that it might be the milk. She turned out to be right. The accidental hedonist says
something interesting:

What makes Lactase Persistence so interesting to me is that it's a dietary genetic mutation that has occurred in homo sapiens that has created a clear delineation within the world population. Sometime between 4500 and 4000 BCE, a group or groups of people adapted to their diet of milk, even after weaning off of mother’s milk. This adaptation allowed their bodies to process lactose long into adulthood. If you can drink milk without difficulty, it's reasonably safe to assume you can trace your ancestry to Western Eurasia and/or parts of the Mediterranean. If you can't drink milk as an adult, some of your ancestors come from elsewhere in the world.

Interesting indeed. I am definitily eurasisan though... Someone suggested to me that the way we treat milk nowadays (pasteurization, homogenization etc) may have increased intolerance. A bit contradicting to the hedonist findings. Interesting is that Finland seems to have a large portion of intolerant people. Their milk producer Valio have som great milk products without the evil lactose and they are sold in Sweden (lucky me).