NEW YORK – If you've cut down on milk because you think your gut can't tolerate the sugar in it, you might be doing your health a disservice, according to a Spanish study.
Researchers from the Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona found more than half the patients who thought they couldn't digest lactose were mistaken.
When they drank a lactose solution that was equivalent to a quart of milk in the lab, their gut absorbed the sugar normally and they experienced less cramping, gas and other bowel trouble than at home.
"There is extended belief among patients with abdominal symptoms that these are caused by lactose in dairy products," the researchers wrote in the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
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