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I am asking this question for a reason

Has anyone become more lactose intolerant since leaving the uk and coming to the us?

Thanks

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Not personally, but that's maybe because I won't touch that vitamin D homogenised milk. This milk can make people lactose intolerant because the homogenising process means that more cows' milk protein enters your bloodstream. It's better to stick to semi-skimmed (2%).

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buy Lactaid milk, most stores sell it. I think they may also do ice-cream also.

"K" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
    > I am asking this question for a reason
    >
    > Has anyone become more lactose intolerant since leaving the uk and coming
    > to the us?
    >
    > Thanks
    >
    >
    >
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I've the same problem. even with 2% organic milk. But I 've no problem with
ice-cream........wierd.

Maybe I 'll try the Lactaid milk, which I 've never tired before.

"K" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
    > I am asking this question for a reason
    >
    > Has anyone become more lactose intolerant since leaving the uk and coming
    > to the us?
    >
    > Thanks
    >
    >
    >
    > --
    > Posted via http://britishexpats.com

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I am using lactaid milk and for the most part it does the trick. Ice cream i cant tolerate especially if it is chocolate, others are not so bad. It is weird though.

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I have this problem & it is just a pain. It started with me around the age of 20 so now everytime I have any dairy I have to take a lactose pill & be careful not to drink too much while I am eating or I pay the price later on. My mom has this problem but as of late has been able to eat anything dairy & not have any problems so yeah it is weird.

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K wrote:

    > I am using lactaid milk and for the most part it does the trick.

What do you mean "for the most part"? It is 100 percent lactose free. So, if the
problem really is lactose intolerance, than lactose free Lactaid should do the trick
for more than "the most part"

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"K" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
    > I am asking this question for a reason
    >
    > Has anyone become more lactose intolerant since leaving the uk and coming
    > to the us?

I certainly fart a lot more than I used too but I think that is the beer or
maybe donuts.

Grinch

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Grinch wrote:
    >
    > "K" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news:[email protected]...
    > > I am asking this question for a reason
    > >
    > > Has anyone become more lactose intolerant since leaving the uk and coming to
    > > the us?
    >
    > I certainly fart a lot more than I used too but I think that is the beer or
    > maybe donuts.

But the real question is do you fart a lot more since moving to the US? The original
poster asked if anyone noticed that they had become lactose intolerant since moving,
for example, from the UK to the US. A far more interesting question, to me, than the
possible treatments.

I think the problem could be because the milk in the US is (probably) vastly
different from that in the UK. Whether this could cause lactose intolerance is
anyone's guess. I'm from the US and have lived in the UK for the past 4 years. Food
in general in the UK is "better" from my point of view (fewer preservatives, fewer
"strange" products like "cheese food." And don't get me started on the bread).

joe

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On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:20:21 +0100, jb <[email protected]> wrote:

    >I think the problem could be because the milk in the US is (probably) vastly
    >different from that in the UK.

Reinhard says they sell milk in Europe. Here they sell a white substance called
"milk" that tastes vaguely like milk, but he's not quite sure what it really is ;)

(It might also have a little to do with the fact that we drink skim in this house,
which he never did at home...)

Betastar

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I have the same problem as the original posters. I had been having milk from
Australia (mainly) and Hong Kong since I was little. I had had no lactose tolerant
problem at all before I came to the States.

What happened to the US milk/cow?

"jb" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > Grinch wrote:
    > >
    > > "K" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > > news:[email protected]...
    > > > I am asking this question for a reason
    > > >
    > > > Has anyone become more lactose intolerant since leaving the uk and coming to
    > > > the us?
    > >
    > > I certainly fart a lot more than I used too but I think that is the beer
or
    > > maybe donuts.
    >
    > But the real question is do you fart a lot more since moving to the US? The
    > original poster asked if anyone noticed that they had become lactose intolerant
    > since moving, for example, from the UK to the US. A far more interesting question,
    > to me, than the possible treatments.
    >
    > I think the problem could be because the milk in the US is (probably) vastly
    > different from that in the UK. Whether this could cause lactose intolerance is
    > anyone's guess. I'm from the US and have lived in the UK for the past 4 years. Food
    > in general in the UK is "better" from my point of view (fewer preservatives, fewer
    > "strange" products like "cheese food." And don't get me started on the bread).
    >
    > joe

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>But the real question is [snip] since moving to the US?

I moved here 6 months ago and the answer for me so far, is no.

>I think the problem could be because the milk in the US
>is (probably) vastly different from that in the UK. Whether
>this could cause lactose intolerance is anyone's guess.
>
>I'm from the US and have lived in the UK for the past 4 years.
>Food in general in the UK is "better" from my point of view
>(fewer preservatives, fewer "strange" products like "cheese
>food." And don't get me started on the bread).

Joe,

I am glad you (as a US born person) said that - I moved TO the US from the UK last year and some products here like butter seem at times to be almost rancid compared to good old Lurpack (or even Tesco store brand butter) in the UK. All I can say for cheese, is that so many Americans just don't know what the real product tastes like and as for bread... oh!!! You took the words right out of my mouth (shame you didn't take the cotton-like substance that passes for bread here in Texas instead). Fresh French bread would be thought of as "too hard" or perhaps stale, just because it has a crust on it!

I actually find these differences between the two countries approach to food both interesting and also a little sad. There is no need for the huge factory processed attitudes that seem to overpower the food lobby in the US. I think this is so even with the large scale that everything has to be done to, just because the US is so much larger than the UK.

I can accept that there may well be a problem with the "enriched" milk and bread products here (I don't think these can be seen in the UK) when compared to regular products sold in the UK and therefore causing K's problem, but can't point to anything much apart from notes like K's and the thought that "it sounds plausable". My old science professors always told me to be wary of relying on "it sounds plausable" as a reason for anything... Prove it using solid facts they used to say, so I wonder, how can we prove it?

Brian.

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I don't know if you're interested on alternate solutions or not (being from the US not able to answer your real question) but you might try an acidophillis suplement to keep the quota of good bacteria in the gut at a peak. Has worked wonders for me while travelling in Central America.
Additionally, Lactaid makes a pill supplement to take when eating other dairy products.
I used to own a natural food store and both these solutions were very popular with my customers.

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2 things I ask...please US, import Marmite and Stella Artois! *G*

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This is a respose from my husband dave :)

You are all plonkers and whiney little british gits.

Now where the hell can i find my salad cream and my branston pickle, not forgetting of course marmite, cheese and onion crisps, worcestershire sauce crisps and WIMPY SAUCE !!!!!!!!!!


He is worse than i am. When it comes to missing british food, he loved it and got a taste for it over there :)

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ROFL ;-))

Tell Dave that Lays do a fair impersination of Walkers Cheese and Onion crisps... and pickles etc can be got from any of the online British food stores. Wimpy - now there's a name that brings back memories...

By the way, we went to the Brit store in Grapevine, Dallas last weekend and it was great... my American-born wife loves shortbread buiscuits (cookies to those who don't know), and she nearly cleaned out the place, while I managed to replenish my supply of Pataks curry sauces.

They also had those lapel badges that are crossed British and US flags. Cute.

Brian.

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If you were unfortunate enough to live in Cincinnati, you would be compensated somewhat by being able to buy lots of British foods, as well as proper French, Italian and foods from other countries. There is a hypermarket-sized supermarket here that specialises in international foods, where, incidently I did a bit of shopping today. Among other things, I bought a four-pack of Boddy's (for DH), a whole case of Flakes (44c each - bargain), baked beans, Teletubbies spaghetti shapes, Ribena, orange squash, and eight-pack of p-p-p-Penguins, creme fraiche, Douwe Edgbert's coffee, pork sausages and back bacon from Ireland, real bread...

So, now that I've scoffed two Flakes, I'm off for a bacon sarnie.

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In article <[email protected]>, Ameriscot
<[email protected]> writes
    >K wrote:
    > > Now where the hell can i find my salad cream and my branston pickle, not
    > > forgetting of course marmite, cheese and onion crisps, worcestershire sauce
    > > crisps and WIMPY SAUCE !!!!!!!!!!
    >
    >
    >
    >If you were unfortunate enough to live in Cincinnati, you would be compensated
    >somewhat by being able to buy lots of British foods, as well as proper French,
    >Italian and foods from other countries. There is a hypermarket-sized supermarket
    >here that specialises in international foods

Jungle Jims?
--
paul 58-77 Sheffield 77-79 Coventry 79-88 Sheffield 88-97 Milton Keynes 97-99 London
99-00 Seattle 00-?? Fremont

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Kicks arses doesn't it - that whole aisle of hot sauce is worth going down just to
read the labels.

Found Comvita's range of NZ honey, vegemite/marmite/promite, milo, minties - you know
- I need to head down there shortly!

paul wrote:

<snip>
    >
    > Jungle Jims?

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The one and only, 15 minutes from my house.

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    > oh!!! You took the words right out of my mouth (shame you didn't take the
    > cotton-like substance that passes for bread here in Texas instead). Fresh French
    > bread would be thought of as "too hard" or perhaps stale, just because it has a
    > crust on it!

But of course there are great cheeses and breads to be found in the US - and even the
big supermarkets are starting to carry specialty items - at least this is true in
Northern VA, I do have to remind myself that out in the sticks things are probably
different! I do think it's amusing that the blandest cheese possible is called
American cheese - I often wonder if it got its name when a European said, "oh, that's
American cheese" and the sarcasm was missed! ;)

--
I'm not really here - it's just your warped imagination.

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Betastar wrote:
    >
    > On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:20:21 +0100, jb <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    > >I think the problem could be because the milk in the US is (probably) vastly
    > >different from that in the UK.
    >
    > Reinhard says they sell milk in Europe. Here they sell a white substance called
    > "milk" that tastes vaguely like milk, but he's not quite sure what it really is ;)
    >
    > (It might also have a little to do with the fact that we drink skim in this house,
    > which he never did at home...)

You might be kind and by him a quart of whole milk. I wouldn't call skimmed milk
"milk" either.