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New Study Adds Finer Details to History of Lactose Tolerance
Posted on September 19, 2008
I'm written on several occasions that lactose tolerance was probably developed first in the Middle East, after dairying was invented. There people processed milk into forms that would keep longer in the heat, like yogurt, kefir, and cheese. Each of these also happens to be relatively low in lactose as well.You can follow a gradient of lactose tolerance across Europe. The lowest percentages of tolerance (highest percentages of lactose intolerance) are in the south and east. The highest percentages of tolerance are in the north and west. This has enormous implications for food and genetic histor...
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