On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Jacques Laurin wrote:

> Ok, if I understand you correctly, to be intolerant implies an
> almost immediate pathological reaction and to be tolerant implies
> no immediate pathological reaction. Does being tolerant
> necessarily implie that you are adapted?Instruct me, what is
> triggering the reaction of indigestion? (beside the foodstuff
> input)

A pathological reaction may or may not be immediate.  There are
different kinds of pathological reactions.  I would say that
tolerance implies no pathological reaction, immediate or delayed.

Indigestion is caused by the inability to digest something.  It
might well be a protein, or it could be a sugar such as lactose,
or a kind of fat, such as the new synthetic fat Olestra.  Other
pathological reactions may be delayed, such as illnesses caused
by hydrogenated fats.

Todd Moody
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