By: Siddiqu The Personal Trainer
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My name is Siddiqu and my favorite food is pizza! The truth is, I’ve never had bad pizza or cheese in my life. Wouldn’t have considered myself a big dairy eater though because I don’t drink milk. Then I started doing a little research on dairy. Dairy is any food product that derives from Milk i.e. cottage cheese, ice cream, cream cheese, butter, any kind of cheese etc… Milk contains the sugar lactose, which is comprised of pairings of glucose and galactose. To digest this sugar, one must break lactose into its component parts (lactose is too big to absorb otherwise), and that requires an enzyme: lactase. All infant mammals make lactase, but the gene that does the job shuts off in early childhood, at the time of weaning. About 3/4 of the world is intolerant to lactose, the main carbohydrate in dairy products. Most people who are of a North European ancestry can digest lactose without problems.