EVE General Discussion

Sooner or later, I knew poetry would happen.

ITT: Distinct scent of a yearning need for attention mixed with a breathless, panting undertone of clammy palmed sexual desperation.

Hows that for atmosphere. No thanks.

By reading this thread I became all calm and zen-like...

I'd like some breast milk in my coffee, though... Dunno if that can arranged?

Surprisingly this thread is still alive and well...

For whatever reason, breast milk consumption by adults always seems most popular in England. They have breast milk ice cream over there. But here's food for thought: where do they find the women to do this? Is it like a job they hire them for? Is it a work at home opportunity? So many questions...

The nepenthean blue depth of space, beyond
that ninefold motley of gankers
Huddled in their frigs about the jump gate
Like afflicted hobos cast about their barrel of flame

I flicked the blue switch on my
bargain basement Dodixie afterburner
Wishing for a grody teat milk aficionado
To share the runaway thrill of my post-downtime game

/蘭

Some of you people need to get out of your pod more.

And I don't mean for a WiS...

Don't you have a coke bottle for that?

Lactose intolerants can still consume and largely metabolise raw milk and especially dairy, just not as efficiently and without as many undesirable side-effects as lactose tolerants (basically gas build up in the intestines as bacteria breaks down what the body itself could not absorb)

Most of the world is lactose intolerant, but that doesn't mean they haven't been consuming milk for millenia.
They just don't have the particular gene that evolved into central/northern europeans.
Basically means if they consume a lot of milk, they will fart a lot, possibly get diarrhea, abdominal pains, and there is evidence that increased gas pressure in the intestines over long periods can result in some tissue abnormalities, including cancers.

The connection to breast milk is not superficial.
People who lack the gene, become intolerant to lactose after being weened off human milk.
From an evolutionary functions perspective, perhaps it was so that a mother knows when to stop breastfeeding and instead feeding the child other foods, as a result of the child becoming increasingly irritable and affected by the intolerance (and, incidentally, also to know when the child's development is at the point that breast milk no longer carries all the necessary nutrients for the next stages of development).

Basically breast milk is the single and absolute best food source a child can have as its own digestive system is still in early stages of development. (WHO recommends that children are fed EXCLUSIVELY on breastmilk for a minimum of 6months, and 1yr preferred. However, most women don't do this. In Finland, for example, only 1% (ONE) of women follow this recommendation to exclusively breastfeed to 6months. As to the reasons for this, feel free to speculate.)

Infact that early gastrointestinal system can't even handle much else. But as it develops, the child becomes capable of ingesting other foods, and as it develops, so do the childs nutritional requirements exceed what is available in mothers milk, as well as the mothers capacity to even provide enough of it for an increasingly grown child.

In other words, its natures way of weening kids off the breast.

Its a "normal" human developmental stage to become incapable of metabolising lactose as they grow up, for which there is only a very recent genetic divergence.

hi guys what's going on in this thread

Guise, let's keep it classy and not talk about lactose intolerance? A dairy might nipple on this thread and moo the wrong impression.

/蘭