Advertisement for a lactase supplement: Lactase, an enzyme produced by the body, aids in the digestion of lactose, a natural sugar found in dairy foods. ████ ████████ ██ ██ ██████████ ███ █████ █ █████ ██ ████ ██ ██ █████ ███████ ██████ █████ ██ ███████ ████████████████████████ ██ █████████ █████ ████████ ███████ ██ ████████████ ████████ █████ █████████████ ████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████ █████████ █████████ ██ █████ ██ ███████ ██████ ██ █████ ███████ █████ ██████ ████ ███████ ████████████
The advertisement claims that at least 50 million North Americans should take lactase supplements to help them digest dairy. How do we know? Well, in one study where participants drank a liter of milk on an empty stomach, a significant proportion had digestion troubles. By applying that proportion to the North American population, we get to 50 million.
The advertisement assumes that drinking a liter of milk on an empty stomach accurately reflects people’s everyday dairy digestion needs. If people can generally handle smaller amounts of dairy just fine, then the study could be misleading.
The author also assumes that the sample group is equivalent to the general North American population—meaning that the participants weren’t unusually likely to be lactose intolerant.
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