It's very peculiar, sir; it's singular among the primitives.
I call it the "warpy phenomenon" after the defrocked warped primitive, she with the face like Hindenberg's, because she's "allergic" to milk and dairy products, but not allergic to chocolate and other sweets.
It's just very odd, how the primitives do that, managing to be allergic to things good for them, but not allergic to things bad for them.
(Yes, yes, of course there's such a thing as "lactose intolerance"--generally among those of African and Asian derivation. But the barred-from-nursing-for-life defrocked warped primitive is of far-northern-European derivation, where one either tolerates lactose.....or dies.)
Not sure about this Frank, the Finland's have a very high incidence of diabetes and heart disease due to their intake of Milk, butter, cheese ,and red meat. AH the Finns love their beer and Summer Sausage, a cultural thing.
Frank, as I was growing up I remember a photo someone in the family framed from Life Mag. of a B&W picture of a woman in the Phillipeans holding a suckling baby to her breast, the child about 3 years old still feeding from their mother had a cigarette in his tiny hands. Yes the baby was smoking between sips of milk.
About 25 years ago when I began working with Asians right off the boat as they say, all reed thin and healthy as horses. As years went by and the New Americans began to eat our diet, they gained weight and came down with ailments never known before in their country. Few Asian comunities ever saw Gout or Gall Bladder disease.
There is also the fact that the Asians ate allot of American Chinese food, not the real stuff, this stuff is loaded with FAT. Our diet was making them ill.
Head to South America, the chili peppers cause the stomach to release peptides, stomach ulcers will drive a Doctor down there nuts. WTF is the problem, we do not get this problem.
In the Nam war, children taken to US military hospitals were dieing for no known reason until someone realised a diet normal for America was full of fats and the children needed the diet of their DNA, rice, Greens and fish. None of this Milk, meat, sugar, and bread.
Food is what we are raised on, when we travel the world and leave our diet behind all kinds of shit happens. Neighbor who married an Australian from the out back said she often was found in the garden eating grubs.
Some folks coming in from Indonesia find frozen bats a Holiday special. Had a older man from Asia tell me how their comunity ship in live cobra, under the nose of port authorietys, and how to kill it, seems like they take it by the tale and snap it like a whip to break its back, peel and fry like we do lamprey eels up here.
Food is what is at hand, be it cabbage or turnips, sheep or goats. Lizzard is a staple in the world as is Anaconda and of all things the huge bugs we get from the ocean, Lobster and Alasken King Crab.