BAN ALL LACTOSE IN MILK AND ICE CREAM

Did you go to school or did you drop out or something? You're as dumb
as a box of rocks. Lactose is naturally in milk, and yes millions are
lactose intolerant, like myself, and many of them still drink milk and
eat cheese, like myself. And while there are millions intolerant,
there are billions who are not.

Get a life.

There's special lactose free items. Eat those and stop whining.

Lactose = "milk sugar." It is the natural sugar that occurs in milk,
just like fructose is the name of the natural sugar that occurs in
fruit. It is not an artificial chemical that is added to milk. You
can't ban lactose without banning milk.

I'm sorry but lactose is a natural ingredient in milk and dairy
products. It can't be banned.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? Im diabetic OH HEY lets ban all foods I cant
eat!!! Get a life! I have to modify my diet for my disability you
modify yours!! If we let the govt tell us what to eat and how etc we
might as well be robots. If this govt sticking their noses into our
persoanl lives crap keeps up only the rich healthy and those without
pre-disposition to diseases and genetic disorders etc. will be alive..
Hail Hitler!!

My brother (who is an M.D.) is lactose intolerant. He has found he
can consume a certain amount of product containing lactose without
suffering G.I. problems.

In order to figure out how much he could consume, he kept a food diary
- and was thus able to balance it out ~ didn't have the cheese or milk
or yogurt if he wanted to have ice cream later on with his kids.

FYI he doesn't consume soy or lactose free products - just has figured
out his tolerance.

Good luck.

i'm lactose intolerant and have tried the lactose free version and
hate the taste of it, so i have figured out what limit my body can
handle and don't drink anymore milk than that.

besides if you don't want to have to search for the lactose free milk
then why should i have to search for regular milk? there are fewer
people who are lactose intolerant than those who aren't so why would
companies cater to the minority?

Umm what..ok lactose is a natural sugar found in milk. And if its so
bad maybe you should have some self discipline. Or take lactaid

My husband just spewed tea out of his nose while reading this.


Here we go:

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/dhmo.htm

There are plenty of lactose-free products out there so you don't need
to become ill from consuming lactose. My suggestion is that you buy
those products.

I am lactose intolerant as well. As I got older I noticed that I
could not drink milk or eat ice cream any longer with out having
horrible side effects. So I modifyed my diet. I now purchase lactose
free milk. I will torment myself once in a while when I want
ice-cream but I know the concequences. I can eat cheese...but not
yogurts. I have just learned to deal with it. I dont think that
lactose should be banned. Why? My diet restrictions are my problem,
not anyone else's so why shoudl anyone else suffer?

Lactose NATURALLY OCCURS in animal milk! If you can't consume it
without being sick, purchase lactose-free products or take pills to
eliminate the negative effects. Problem solved.

"Fixing" your stomach aches is not the government's problem.

Could we please go ahead and ban peppers and avocados while we are at
it - I LOVE both of those things but get sick if I eat them so it
makes me sad that I can't eat them.

As far as vitamin D - you can get that from the sun. approx 15 gives
you your daily dose. And it's free.

I want to eat like you:not getting diarrhea when I eat foods!

... instead of trying to dictate to the rest of us that we need to
change OUR diet to suit you? That is the real center of the discussion
here. I have friends who can't have wheat gluten. Should we ban all
wheat-based foods? No. That's stupid. You find an alternative that you
CAN digest and you get on with your life.

Maybe we should just ban stupid leftists and other authortarians

Millions of people, huh? What about the millions of others that can
digest it? I can't eat strawberries or citrus, maybe we should ban
those?


What about Vitamin D supplements?

Why? Just because some people can't digest it? They make
easily-obtainable products to help with that. No one is forcing you to
consume dairy products anyway.

You can buy lactose free milk, ice cream etc or buy lactaid tablets to
help you digest milk products.

There are approximately 6,970,442,289 (That's BILLION there if you
weren't sure) on the planet right now. I serious doubt that there are
"Millions" suffering from lactose intolerance.

Yes, quite a few these days as more and more allergies surface, but
still not enough to justify changing the content of milk and raising
the price to cover the change just to satisfy the minority.

& it isn't like there aren't alternatives for those who are lactose
intolerant, so I guess I still don't get the logic of this.

No?

If millions of people are affected with lactose intolerance, then
there are billions more that have no issues. If you have a problem
with lactose, then please purchase lactose-free items.

If I cant eat my Golden Grahams in the morning with my 2% milk I will
be peeved!

Keep out of my breakfast cereal!

The OP could always follow PETA's suggestion and not drink milk at
all. Problem solved.

http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/Cows-Milk-A-Cruel-and
-Unhealthy-Product.aspx

The OP says people are deprived of vitamin D because they are afraid
of lactose in milk. Here are lots more vitamin D sources. Problem
solved.

http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/vitamind-HealthProfessional/

If this doesnt suit the OP, he can also take the advise others have
given and CHOOSE lactose free milk. Problem solved.

As a side note, I hate the taste of milk and it has not crossed my
lips in years. I also have a slight lactose tolerance issue. I can
eat rich yogurt, such as greek yogurt and real 100% cheese. But I
cant get NEAR ice cream or "low fat" yogurt and cheese or melted
cheese, such as on a pizza.

Tom G

Other Posters have mentioned that there are lactose free products.

Other posters have mentioned that there are over the counter remidies
to prevent lactose intolerance.

Why not try those alternatives.

Why should everyone else not be able to enjoy dairy products with
lactose in them?

Shouldn't they be able to do consume whatever dairy products they want
to even if the product has lactose in it?

I am curious as to why *what they add is lactase* is posted 3 times.

the whole World should have to endure this burden just because YOU
can't have it?

This is like saying take calcium out of milk!

& FTR, lactose is a sugar. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose) It's
not like it's an additive like MSG. It's already in there. The
"Lactose free" substitutes are all chemically altered to remove that
and leave a "milk-like" product.

& Just don't eat it - problem solved!

I'm having a little bit of cognitive dissonance here. Lactose is the
naturally occurring sugar in milk which is broken down by lactase, an
enzyme and if someone lacks that enzyme, it leads to lactose
intolerance. There's no reason to "ban" lactose and doing so would
require all milk to be chemically altered.

Or you could just NOT EAT products that contain lactose. I'm lactose
intolerant, but I can eat all the cheese I want. I can have some ice
cream. I buy lactose-free milk. (I assume you can be lactose-free
ice cream or similar products as well.)

You, tom g., do not get to dictate what everybody else eats and
drinks.

Oh don't forget we'll have to ban eggs too.

And flu shots cos people with egg allergies can't have those either.

Just because some people are sensitive to it is no reason to ban it.
If that were the case just about everything would be banned. I'm
allergic to most antibiotics. Should they be banned?

Tom G

Exactly where do you get the information that is stated in your
complaint?

What about the other people who who are not allergic to lactose?

What if they choose to eat lactose? Should it not be up to them if
they want to eat lactose?

Why should the government make that chose for them?

You personally might be intolerant but I'm not. Why should I have to
pay extra for the industry to unnecessarily treat all milk just to
make others happy?


They already make products for lactose intolerant people.

Seriously?

This is literally the same thing as asking the government to ban
peanuts because some people are allergic to them.

Lactose isn't a health issue. Most people can digest it just fine.

If you're lactose intolerant, I'm sorry. I truly am. But it's your job
to monitor what you're eating; not the government's.

Likewise, we won't be banning peanuts from the planet just because
some people can't eat them either.

as any company in making milk lactose-free.

It is a type of sugar naturally found in milk. It cannot be banned.