How many people can't digest milk?

Question should read how many can't digest the highly processed milk you buy from the store? Bet if they tried raw milk they wouldn't have a problem!

Many people in Africa and Asia are lactose intolerant and I have read that it is related to their diets. As they have not had cows milk as part of their normal diet over generations they have never developed a tolerance for it. In many places in Southeast Asia it is extremely difficult to even buy fresh cows milk.

Yet another question with a missing reference. Sort this out - NOW.

Some people find non-cow milk, such as buffalo milk, much easier to digest.

Yet again a poorly worded question.

It surprises me that the number is so high.

60% of adults can't digest milk, nothing about children that take up a good percentage of people in the world.

Milk does not sit well with me, but, kefir is fine. The bacteria feast on the lactose and I bid them bon appetit.

Shonda Heath Robinson, My G/grandson can't drink 'shop' milk. When he comes to our place where we get milk from the farm, it doesn't last too long - not the odd 'swig', but large glasses at a time.

Should give more information like people around the world.

Interesting that this information did not include a source. So I went looking. The only source I could find stating this was an ABC news article, dtd Aug 30, 2009.

A2 Milk allows many to drink it

Lucia Salamone, Almond milk is for Almonds

Asians have the highest rate of lactose intolerance.

I got the answer correct. Although, I guessed, I know more people are lactose intolerant. A lot of you are missing the simple facts about the condition. It may help you to understand that something occurred evolutionary to allow adults to digest milk. There was a genetic mutation occurring in European people - white people. This mutation allows most white people to drink milk until their senior years. This is the aberration. Most non-Europeans have a genetic switch that turns on as they age. This limits their ability to handle milk. So it's not a question of the milk it's raw or processed. I don't think it's a question of what animal the milk came from. Children of all ethnicities can handle milk. This makes sense because young children of all ethnicities can handle mother's milk. Lactose intolerant adults can't regardless of where it comes from. Given that there are more non-Europeans in the world with some racial groups experiencing well over 90% intolerant adults, if was easy to see that the correct voice was 60% overall.

That has nothing to do with that issue of lactose intolerance. Lactose is a naturally occurring sugar found in milk. Saying that you are going to get more natural milk doesn't change that. The obligation milk that people who are lactose intolerant can handle is milk that has had the lactose artificially removed such as lactaid milk