If you stop eating anything at all for long periods of time your body stops
producing the enzymes to digest it.  There is a lot about this from former
fruitarians on beyondveg.com.

In a message dated 1/31/2002 10:45:04 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:27:59 -0600 Jim Swayze <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> > I've been under the assumption that humans can digest human milk at
> > any stage in life.
>
> Ardeith writes:
> Not exactly....if the human baby is switched from
> breast to cows milk, they will retain the enzyme or
> whatever it is that allows them to digest milk.  But
> if you stop drinking milk for many years, then try
> to do so again, you run into all sorts of problems.
> Milk used to give my mother gas and cramps
> when she tried drinking it again after 40 years
> of no milk.   Then there are the people who
> react badly to the bovine protein in cows milk.
> Cows produce milk for calves.  Women produce
> milk for human babies.  Even then, some babies
> can't handle it......that's when formulas come in
> handy.
>
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