Sound like a healthy/clean diet?

I certainly knew that was coming. I have seen that statistic time and time again. Look it up for yourself. Of course, I don't think statistics can be trusted much, either. But I personally know a LOT of people who feel better when they take dairy out of their diet. When I personally consume dairy, I am constipated for days and then have a terrible upset stomach, in addition to horrible stabbing pains in my stomach, etc. It's not a rare problem. It's fine if you don't agree, with the stats but I do think lactose intolerance is pretty common. But please don't be so rude. Maybe your blood sugar is low. Perhaps you need a healthy snack. Maybe you should have a glass of cow's milk, if you love it so much, and then question why you are spending your time trying to shoot down other people's views and lifestyles in the Internet, when you could be doing something much better with your time, like improving your personality/people skills.

There is far far more misinformation on the net about nutrition than there is scientifically proven fact, and a crazy number of 'stats' and 'facts' are just repeated and reblogged over and over again without anyone bothering to research them. I can assure you if there was scientific evidence that 80% of people were intolerant to dairy the UK national health service would not be encouraging its consumption - our political and healthcare systems are run very differently to yours in the US.

The problem with anecdotal evidence of self diagnosed intolerances is that they are unscientific and rarely based on someone doing a proper exclusion diet. For example someone might quit dairy - so they stop eating breakfast cereal because they are not having milk or reduce pasta because they cannot have cheese. So are the beneficial results due to reducing wheat intake, sugar intake (cereal is often more sweetened than toast), having smaller portions of carbs, or a benefit of ADDING in potatoes/ rice/ oats/ eggs or whatever they ate instead of the cereal or pasta dishes?

I have seen this with nutrition clients, almost made the mistake myself and seen it with my sibling's spouse. At one time they thought they might be coeliac because gluten appeared to be a trigger for IBS like symptoms. When questioned they were eating almost entirely white wheat flour, always with a lot of fat and/ or sugar (cakes, pizza). Obviously these being unhealthy they were treats as part of an overly large meal - very fatty meals are a known trigger for digestive issues, both sugar and white refined carbs are terrible for feeding the bad bacteria in the gut and imbalances here are believed to be a major part of IBS. The problem was not the gluten protein at all.

Furthermore, my lactose-intolerance is NOT self diagnosed. ASSUMPTIONS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!