Cheese, if you please. (Letters)."Dairying dairying, business of producing, processing, and distributing milk and milk products. Ninety percent of the world's milk is obtained from cows; the remainder comes from goats, buffaloes, sheep, reindeer, yaks, and other ruminants. Pioneers: Milk ran deep in prehistoric England" (SN: 2/1/03, p. 6'7) says that "lactose, a sugar in milk, commonly elicits allergic reactions." Lactose and many other carbohydrates don't elicit an allergic response. JONATHAN STAPLEY, WEST LAFAYETTE, IND. Lactose intolerance Lactose Intolerance Definition Lactose intolerance refers to the inability of the body to digest lactose. Description Lactose is the form of sugar present in milk. is the inability to digest significant amounts of lactose because there's a shortage of an enzyme that breaks down milk sugar. This condition shouldn't have been described as an allergic reaction.--B. BOWER Prehistoric British dairying pioneers didn't need to wait "several thousand years" to digest the raw milk products they were using. After leaving the udder udder: see mammary gland. , milk quickly becomes colonized Colonized This occurs when a microorganism is found on or in a person without causing a disease. Mentioned in: Isolation with lactobacilli Lactobacilli, cariogenic, n a type of bacteria that may play an important role in tooth decay. It is usually found in small amounts in dental plaque. Its concentration increases with high sugar intake. that break down lactose. JOANN S. GROHMAN, DIXFIELD, MAINE The thesis that milking animals were kept to produce cheese and butter until the early English population could digest the milk intact is, at best, a dicey one. What is plausible is that the nutrient concentration, storability, and portability of cheese and butter were the chief motivators for their production. Or maybe it was the flavor. ALAN E. KLIGERMAN, PLEASANTVILLE, N.J. |
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