The Practical Significance of Lactose Intolerance in Children
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Lactose intolerance has been reviewed in published statements by the Protein Advisory Group of the United Nations System,’ the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council,2 and the American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Nutrition.’ Each of these statements deals principally with the advisability of encouraging population groups with a high rate of lactose intolerance to consume nutritionally beneficial quantities of milk. All three statements conclude that it is inappropriate to discourage the use of milk on the basis of lactose intolerance. Nevertheless, controversy over the practical significance of the widespread prevalence4’5 of lactose intolerance has continued.
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The practical significance of lactose intolerance in children.
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