Planet Lactose

Probiotics are the name under which companies try to sell bacteria to you. I've deliberately put that in the worst sounding way, of cour...

The excellent writer Christian Nordqvist of Medical News Today seems to come up a topic every month that is of useful interest to our need...

I don't normally take potshots at columnists at college student newspapers. Humans are the only animals on the planet that drink another...

Bubbles. Chocolate. Better than chocolate and peanut butter? It melts in your mouth and is lower in calories. (I Can't Believe It's ...

Didn't I just read a piece of satire about the one billionth app available for your iPhone? It allows you to dial another person and tal...

Cargill is probably the hugest company in the U.S. whose name isn't a household word. It's privately owned, the largest such compan...

Food is great stuff. It's delicious in a thousand different ways, but mostly because humans have adapted over hundreds of thousands of y...

I'm not sure how I missed it, but the publication of Cathe Olson's Lick It! Creamy Dreamy Vegan Ice Creams Your Mouth Will Love sli...

"The next time you pick up a carton of low-lactose milk or reduced-fat mozzarella cheese at the grocery store, you are holding the resu...

I maintain this blog for every type of person who wants to reduce or avoid dairy. Some reasons are obvious: lactose intolerance or milk prot...

Hot blogger Lauren Ulm, whose Vegan Yum Yum blog won the 2008 VegNews magazine Veggie Award, and the 2008 Veg Blog Award, now collected the...

I didn't want to leave you hanging yesterday when I broke the bad news that not all lactose-free soft serve is really lactose free . Som...

Some things that sound too good to be true probably are. Emily Moore did a review of local Tuscon frozen yogurt shops for her student newspa...

All adult mammals are lactose intolerant. All of them. Dogs . Cats . Even cows. People have the notion fixed in their heads that the best fo...

CrazyAllergyGirl.com is a community based gluten free recipe search engine for the food lovers with multiple food allergies. Visitors to th...

Galactosemia is that very rare congenital disease in which lactose is successfully digested into glucose and galactose but the galactose is ...

I've been posting for years of the slow insertion of milk and dairy products into Asian markets, especially China . This isn't happe...

Lactose tolerance is a mutation that is shared mostly by people of European descent. In multicultural America, that means that minority popu...

Ritter Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the makers of Lactagen, are gearing up for the release of a new drug for lactose intolerance. They've hire...

Examiner.com has become the bane of my life. The site allows apparently any, um, wannabe who can work a keyboard to sign up and become speci...