Africans’ ability to digest milk likely due to spread of cattle raising
Babies are born with the ability to digest lactose, the sugar found in milk, but most humans lose this ability after infancy because of declining levels of the lactose-digesting enzyme lactase.
March 17, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: ability, after-infancy, digest-lactose, high-levels, humans-lose, known-as-lactose, lactose, nutrition, nutritive, reap-the-nutritive, sugar, the-nutritive
