But adult cats don't have
much lactase, the enzyme needed to break down the lactose sugar in milk.
Not exact matches
I have been having wonderful success with particular cultured milk products - they still bother me a bit, but not nearly so
much as before, and
Lactase enzyme is more effective too.
The protein which digests the sugar (
lactase) may not be able to handle so
much milk sugar at one time and the baby will have the symptoms of lactose intolerance — crying, gas, explosive, watery, green bowel movements.
Each child needs to find what works best depending on the symptoms and how
much, if any,
lactase the body produces.
Too
much foremilk can cause an imbalance of lactose and
lactase, which is the enzyme responsible for breaking down lactose.
The protein which digests the sugar (
lactase) may not be able to handle so
much milk sugar at one time and the baby will have the symptoms of lactose intolerance — crying, gas, and explosive, watery, greenish bowel movements.
In many cases, even children with a
lactase deficiency may tolerate some lactose in their diet, such as a scoop of ice cream, or milk on their cereal, but only experience symptoms when they have «too
much milk.»
Beginning around age 2, as
much as three - quarters of people around the world lose their ability to produce ample
lactase.
Although most early European farmers would not have been
lactase persistent, they would still have been able to consume fermented milk products such as yoghurt and cheese, because fermentation converts
much of the lactose into fats.
To see how
much natural selection was needed to drive
lactase persistence up to today's frequencies in that Iberia, Sverrisdóttir contacted her colleague Professor Mark Thomas in London.
However, cow's milk kefir contains so
much beneficial bacteria that it provides enough
lactase, the enzyme that is used to break down the lactose.