Innate cravings and lactose digestion. (Letters From Our Readers).Bravo on your latest issue. It's about time It's About Time may refer to:
hurt - give trouble or pain to; "This exercise will hurt your back" Lester Brown. He says the fact that people start to eat meat as soon as they can afford to proves that "the taste for meat is probably an innate appetite." As soon as people can afford it, they build large houses and buy expensive cars. Is there an innate appetite for these? There is "an innate appetite" for goods that suggest status, and meat more often than not suggests status. There may have been a reason in the hunter-gatherer (or gatherer-hunter) stage of human evolution to eat meat, but we know very little about this stage and the diets of that time period. We do know, however, that they were nomads who burned their meat. Today, meat burns us. Our "innate appetite for meat" is now as anachronistic a·nach·ro·nism n. 1. The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order. 2. as our "innate appetite for violence." We can't afford either. Roberta Kalechofsky Marblehead, MA While I commend you for the excellent coverage on the implications of meat, egg and dairy consumption, I found your discussion of the rates of 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. misleading. In "Body Of Evidence," Sally Deneen writes, "Three out of 10 adults are lactose intolerant." While this is true if the focus is only North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , we need to look at the bigger picture. In fact, the majority of the world's people, approximately seven out of 10, are unable to digest the sugar in cow's milk. It is inappropriate to discuss lactose intolerance based on a western, predominantly Caucasian standard because it imposes on Asians, Africans and Aboriginals a diet that contributes to disease that these groups have been protected from for most of their existence. When they immigrate im·mi·grate v. im·mi·grat·ed, im·mi·grat·ing, im·mi·grates v.intr. To enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native. See Usage Note at migrate. v.tr. to North America and adopt our lifestyle, they begin to suffer from the rates of heart disease, cancer and stroke that have become our norm. We would benefit from omitting dairy products dairy products dairy npl → produits laitier dairy products dairy npl → Milchprodukte pl, Molkereiprodukte pl even though most North Americans can consume them. Michael Manchester Aylmer, ON, Canada |
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