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Mael · 12-15-2003, 12:05 PM

my guess would be no. or, not significantly.

essentially, lactose is gonna work on you like fiber (well, i really have no idea, but i think it's a good guess).

i say this because fiber is from the cellulose of plants, which is a plant carbohydrate. and when you break cellulose down to its monosacharride form, it's just B-glucose. so cellulose is just a long chain of B-glucose.

lactose is a disacharride made up of two a-glucose molecules bonded together. since you lack the enzyme to digest it lactose should just work like mini-chains of cellulose, like fiber.

fiber can block some fat absorption and i beleive some vitamin absorption when you have a lot of fiber with a meal. but fibers a lot longer than these little 2 glucose molecules bound together.
so they may block a little, but probably not much.

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Mael Banned Location: The Hell I Created.	my guess would be no. or, not significantly. essentially, lactose is gonna work on you like fiber (well, i really have no idea, but i think it's a good guess). i say this because fiber is from the cellulose of plants, which is a plant carbohydrate. and when you break cellulose down to its monosacharride form, it's just B-glucose. so cellulose is just a long chain of B-glucose. lactose is a disacharride made up of two a-glucose molecules bonded together. since you lack the enzyme to digest it lactose should just work like mini-chains of cellulose, like fiber. fiber can block some fat absorption and i beleive some vitamin absorption when you have a lot of fiber with a meal. but fibers a lot longer than these little 2 glucose molecules bound together. so they may block a little, but probably not much.