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What you need to know about lactose intolerance. (Health).

Jet | October 7, 2002 | Copyright

The simple pleasure of drinking a cold glass of milk, eating an extra-cheesy slice of pizza or treating yourself to double-ice cream cone can turn into a painful exercise if you're one of the 30 to 50 million Americans who have trouble digesting lactose, a sugar found in milk products.

The inability to digest milk sugar is caused by the lack of an enzyme called lactase. Lactase is normally produced in the small intestine, where it breaks down milk sugar into simpler forms that can be absorbed by the blood. However, when the body doesn't produce enough enzymes to digest…

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