On Sep 18, 7:28 pm, arch...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> > " IF you were supposed to consume milk, it would be human
> > milk and your mother should be providing it for you; can she?"
>
> > About 10 k years ago those humans who had begun to consume milk
> > after the domestication of cattle, sheep, etc. genetically evolved
> > a mutation in the production of the enzyme lactase by which to
> > continue the metabolism of milk after infancy.
Although it may seem eerie & interesting at first that some humans
have a mutant lactase persistence allele, lactose is only the sugar in
milk. Mutated humans never "evolved to continue the metabolism of"
casein, insulin-like growth factor 1, chol, estrogen, etc in milk
after infancy, especially not across species. It may be an example of
junk DNA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_DNA
since it doesn't really
serve an evolutionary function for humans to tolerate breast milk
sugar after infancy.
This reminds me, I heard a tip on the radio the other day- "Don't pour
heavy cream down your drains."
Of course..
"So I say we need more, not less, of the shotgun approach. We need
more thought about overall dietary patterns and whole foods." -Colin
Campbell, The China Study p. 106.
Chris
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