The power of milk Lactose intolerance is quite common these days although it used to be much more common DNA analysis of the remains of Central and Eastern Europeans who died between 4000 and 1800 BC shows that lactose intolerance was not common back then At that time people were already breeding cattle that produced milk but they mainly ate cottage cheese and other types of harder cheeses which are poor in lactose Later representatives of the Yamna culture and the Corded Ware culture appeared in Eurasia - they were the ones responsible for the spread of the lactose tolerance gene Later lactose intolerance became an important demographic advantage that allowed the Indo-European language family to spread so widely Personally I am not a big fan of milk in its pure form but I still drink it quite often Although I prefer to make hot chocolate based on it cute teen babyface nerd skinny