Why do lactose intolerant people have problems when they consume dairy products? Be sure to frame...

Why do lactose intolerant people have problems when they consume dairy products? Be sure to frame your answer within the context of the genetics and biochemistry involved.

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Lactose tolerance Risk factors:-

1. Increasing Age

2. Ethnicity:- Mostly in Africans, Asians, American Indians.

3. Disease of Intestine:- Crohn's Disease, Celiac Sprue etc.

4. Premature birth:- The intestine is not able to develop the enzyme Lactase.

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