On Tuesday, November 12, 2019 at 1:30:00 PM UTC-10, wrote:

> I posted this comment a week or so ago but I'll post it again.
>
> When I was a child milk was heavily advertised to 'grow strong bones and
> teeth' with a recommendation of at least 2 glasses of milk per day.
>
> Was this an effort by dairy farmers to increase their profits?? Probably..
> Was this an effort to by the AMA or the FDA to make sure American children
> did not suffer malnutrition that children in Europe probably did due to
> WWII? Probably.
>
> Either scenario certainly did no harm to any child's health. And if a
> person was unfortunate to have a lactose intolerance, then they just didn't
> drink milk. Enjoying milk is nothing to be ashamed of or for anyone to
> look down on someone who does like drinking it on a regular basis.

There certainly was an effort to hide the truth about lactose intolerance by the dairy industry. That their product was the cause of stomach distress was something they wanted to keep under wraps. Acidophilus was a product that can be safely drunk by those folks with an intolerance to lactose. The weird part was that the sellers couldn't say anything about that least they open a carton of worms. The greatest trick the milk industry ever pulled was convincing the world that lactose intolerance didn't exist.

I was an inquisitive lad so I did spend some time trying to figure out why acidophilus milks existed. It wasn't until the 90's that the milk carton mentioned that it could help with your digestion. By that time I had already figured it out. I had already learned about lactose intolerance and acidophilus milk. I had already learned that Asians are not very interested in milk and milk products. - they do however, have a large number of milk based fermented drinks that are actually probiotics. They've been drinking probiotics since the 1920's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAUkptGNw-s