Lactose Intolerance in the Adult Human Beings (473 words, 2 pages)
Adult Lactase Persistence Approximately 65 percent of the world's population is lactoseintolerant. Most human beings cannot digest lactose, the sugar found inmilk, beyond childhood. Virtually all human beings are lactose tolerantfrom birth to childhood. Only 35 percent, mostly Northern and CentralEuropeans, of humans continue to produce lactase, the enzyme that ...
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