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I'm guessing that ratio is probably different for people on HN, since, as fluent English speakers, they're more likely to be descended from Europeans.
by toasterlovin 10y ago
I'm guessing that ratio is probably different for people on HN, since, as fluent English speakers, they're more likely to be descended from Europeans.
- vidarh 10y agoIt is, but it's still significant. 13% for whites in the US but rising to near 90% for some ethnic groups. Europe varies greatly, with by far the highest level of tolerance in Northern Europe (I'm Norwegian, and I didn't even know about lactose intolerance until I was in the 20's - it just wasn't something that became a subject until we were exposed to more immigrants as while it existed in Norway before that it was <5%), with lactose intolerance increasing to well above 20% in many other European countris. In any case the advice to down vast quantities as milk isn't universally applicable anywhere.
- TheCoelacanth 10y agoI would be very surprised if HN didn't also a large number of people of Asian descent who are much less likely to tolerate lactose.