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Curious about a suitable Lactose Intolerance diet? If you've been recently diagnosed with an inability to digest the sugars naturally found in dairy products, you'll need to gain an understanding of how to alter your eating habits to help you condition. Making a good Lactose Intolerance diet means that you have to limit or eliminate dairy foods from your daily menu. However, it's not as simple as just stopping your dairy intake. Dairy provides important vitamins and minerals without which your health could be jeopardized. An effective Lactose Intolerance Diet involves finding alternative ways to get the important nutrients you would otherwise get from foods like milk, cheese and yoghurt. So what constitutes a good Lactose Intolerance diet? And what potential problems do you need to look out for.
People with this condition usually find that their inability to digest milk sugars isn't total. For example, there are very few people who could not eat a biscuit that was made with milk. In most cases, it's only foods with a high concentration of the sugars. Foods with a high sugar count that should be avoided include milk, ice cream, soft cheeses and sometimes yoghurts. Foods with lower sugar counts that usually don't cause as much trouble are butter, (in small amounts), hard cheeses like cheddar, and occasionally also yoghurt, because the bacteria found in yoghurt will sometimes pre-digest the sugars. The individual responses to yoghurt varies among sufferers, with some people suffering no symptoms from it, and others unable to eat it at all.
A danger with this condition is that sufferers won't meet their daily requirements for calcium. The recommended intake of calcium is 800mg/day for men and pre-menopausal women, 1000mg/day for post menopausal women, 1100mg for pregnant women, and 1200 for breastfeeding women. Fortunately, calcium also be found in dark leafy vegetables, supplements, and special calcium-fortified milk substitutes such as Lactaid or Balance. There are also enzyme drops available on the market, such as Lact-Easy Drops, which can be added to milk or dairy in order to pre-digest the sugars.
Talk to your GP to work out a safe and sensible eating plan that works for you!
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