Re: Holiday Food

Interesting - must be something in dairy products in general.  Not an expert either, but I know what my body revolts to!!

LOL 

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: cathy carpenter <cathyc@rnet.com>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:14:46 -0600

>Interesting, because the bacteria that work to produce cheese gobble up  
>lactose. However, not being an expert on the production of the myriad  
>of cheeses available, some may have milk or lactose containing products  
>added after those critters have done their work...or it may be that  
>something else entirely in the cheese that was causing your body to  
>revolt.
>Cathy
>On Tuesday, December 30, 2003, at 07:28 PM, Pamela J. Evans wrote:
>
>> I don't know about yogurt (wretched goop), but cheese will definitely
>> trigger the lactose-intolerant reaction in me. I guess I was lucky,
>> didn't become lactose-intolerant until my early 40's. But what a  
>> blasted
>> nuisance I must say.
>>
>>
>> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>> From: cathy carpenter <cathyc@rnet.com>
>> Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Date:  Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:53:44 -0600
>>
>>> You are right, given that she likes milk on cereal. Cheese and yogurt
>>> don't have lactose so even the intolerant can eat them. Of course the
>>> Chinese think we are nuts eating cheese, which to them tastes like
>>> dirty socks!
>>> Cathy
>>> On Tuesday, December 30, 2003, at 04:09 PM, Jesse Bell wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, she isn't lactose intollerant....cause she likes it with cereal
>>>> in the morning and cheese, yogurt, cottage cheese, etc.  She just
>>>> doesn't like the taste of milk.  Man....I grew up with farm-fresh
>>>> dairy milk....good stuff.  And we buy it from a local dairy and it's
>>>> great.  I can remember skimming the cream off the top of the big ole
>>>> jar...and putting it in an empty jar with salt etc. and shaking it
>>>> till it turned to butter.  Yummy stuff.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> From: cathy carpenter <cathyc@rnet.com>
>>>>> Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>>>>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>>>>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Holiday Food
>>>>> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:03:24 -0600
>>>>>
>>>>> Most folks of northern European heritage can drink milk throughout
>>>>> their lives, but the vast majority of the human population cannot
>>>>> tolerate milk after the age of 5...they lose the ability to digest
>>>>> milk sugar, lactose. The result? Very uncomfortable cramping and
>>>>> diarrhea.
>>>>> Cathy
>>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, December 29, 2003, at 04:16 PM, Jesse Bell wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hmmm, must be the "Kraut" in me......my mother is German....but I
>>>>>> just LOVE sauerkraut.   And on my father's side...Scotch....so I
>>>>>> love cooked cabbage too....and coleslaw.  I just pretty much love
>>>>>> cabbage.  I cook it all the time...kids love it too...except for
>>>>>> Robert's youngest, who is a very picky eater.  She doesn't even
>>>>>> drink milk.....now that's just WRONG.  I can't imagine life without
>>>>>> THAT!!!  So I buy her the orange juice with vitamin C and D in it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jesse Rene' Bell
>>>>>> Claremore, OK
>>>>>> Zone 6
>>>>>
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