Milk and other lactose-rich products may be getting a bum rap for food-related gastrointestinal symptoms, researchers here say.
The real culprit could well be an as-yet uncharacterized intestinal immune-mediated disorder, reported Laura Paajanen, M.D., of the Foundation for Nutrition Research here in the December issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
In a blinded challenge of 23 individuals with food-related gastrointestinal symptoms, milk caused significant symptoms in only two, Dr. Paajanen and colleagues found.
They surveyed 827 individuals, ages 16 to 21, about food-related gastrointestinal symptoms. They then gave a clinical exam and a battery of tests, including a lactose-intolerance test and the blinded milk challenge, to 47 participants who reported such symptoms and agreed to the various tests.
The 47 participants reported food-related GI symptoms including abdominal pain, regurgitation, chronic nonspecific diarrhea, non-ulcer dyspepsia, dyschezia, and constipation. Only 14 of the 47 consumed milk or diary products without restriction. Most limited their intake of diary products to some extent, believing these to be at least partially responsible for their symptoms.
A control group of 29 symptom-free individuals also underwent the tests.
See, it's true- "milk, it does a body good!" After this study, folks will have to blame something else for a while.
From CNN.
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