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It's a good video, full of information. Ignore the snarky comment(s).

Summarizing:

- Italians in the North are less prone to lactose malabsorption than those in the South - They don't drink cappuccinos after 11 because it's heavy to digest - The video includes some information about why milk is hard to digest, and other things

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For those of us who can't watch videos at work for various reasons, I wish every HN submission marked [Video] had a summary. Thank you.

Where do you work that you can't watch a video? What's the reason?

Genuinely curious, not insulting/snarky.

I'd feel silly casually watching fun Youtube videos at any office job where anybody could see my screen. So, most jobs I've had until I worked remotely.

Browsing websites like HN is one thing. Youtube is over the top, like turning on Netflix. "Oh look, Chuck is watching Youtube again."

A lot of youtube videos are short and basically small memes, they’ve circulated in every office I’ve ever been in. Netflix movies and series of the other hand, you can reference them but who has the time to watch something like a series?

On the other hand I guess if it’s your lunch break, why not

I'd feel silly working at any office job where I couldn't casually watch a brief YouTube video or share one ith a colleague.

I've only worked at one, (now mostly remote, pre-ncov) maybe I was spoilt, but, perhaps as a result, I wouldn't want to feel that I couldn't. I'm not operating factory machinery.

It's all about perception, sadly. Plenty of people who will judge you and gossip about you for what they deem to be slacking. (Often while they're having a "quick" cigarette break, just for the irony).

It's not ideal, but it's human nature, and I don't think any company, no matter how good their culture, can remove it.

I worked in an open bureau back in 2001. One guy would watch a funny video and the whole bureau would go to his computer to watch it. I found that very annoying, I'm here to work and solve (hard) problems, not watch videos. Because I was unemployed for a long time before that and was happy to work and do something productive. Instead..they watch videos. I also can't stand inner company politics. If I never have to talk to my colleagues it's the best. When I joined that company there was one guy who said, "we're all freaks here, what kind of freak are you". I never saw myself as a freak. The company imploded in the new economy bubble because management thought that spending 250k on Reamon (the singer) was a good investment. Then they didn't have enough money to pay their developers that were by 9/10 from Russia or Romania, imported. We sued and never saw our money. The product was sold to T-Online (Deutsche Telekom) as the TOM (T-Online Messenger) and the CEO fled to Switzerland with the money he made from the sale. We didn't see 1 cent. What's also interesting, on paper the chiefs like the CTO and the head recruiter earned 20fold of what the code monkeys earned. It was also a family business and they called themself a company that was noted on the stock exchange but in reality wasn't registered there. The brother of a, at that time prominent TV moderator was an investor in that company.

Its not about where I've worked. It's simply not professional behavior at any of the places I've worked.

The CEO of the medium sized fintech company I work at loves sending goofy videos out.

Watching non-work related videos at work doesn't look good.

In addition to the previous comments pointing out it's badly seen and quite visible, there are also many companies that blacklist (or not whitelist) Youtube.

I don't know, I liked the video but am uncertain of his hypothesis. If it was due to lactose intolerance wouldn't all the cheeses and pizza's enjoyed around dinner in Italy cause some major issues for many people? Also gelato? My guess is its due to caffeine and avoiding any ingestion of it for a long time before bed is a smart move.

As explained in the video, most cheeses have little to no lactose

> My guess is its due to caffeine and avoiding any ingestion of it for a long time before bed is a smart move.

Don't look now, but the Italians love their espresso after dinner.

  decaf espresso*

I’m lactose intolerant and have no issue with cheese and gelato in Italy. Most Italian cheeses have little to no lactose. Not sure what the case is with gelato but it doesn’t seem to have an effect on me (this is anecdotal). Also pizza in Italy does not have as much cheese as in other parts of the world.

Cheese is low in lactose, and gelato is too, it's mainly sugar with only a little bit of milk.

Someone I know, who is lactose intolerant, believes that frozen milk isn't as bad, I've not found any scientific evidence of this, so it's probably not true, but she thinks she is more tolerant of frozen milk products, so maybe there is some reason?

There is also not that much milk in a serving of ice cream since it is usually less than the 1:1 with amount of cream, typically 2:1 cream to milk, plus sugar, stabilizers, flavorings. A milkshake would be much more milk though I’d think.

I have some kind of dairy intolerance, and I find that cooked and cultured dairy doesn't bother me nearly as much as milk or ice cream.

Hard to reconcile that theory with the old warm cup of milk before bed for children and adults unable to sleep

I suppose hard to digest could be made to mean, makes you sleepy but I find coffee wakes people up and why is it ok to be sleepy before noon

If it means makes your stomach unhappy then avoid it, not have it and be uncomfortable

You'd be asleep during the period of digesting the warm milk anyways, a bit of gas wouldn't bother you at that point.

With gas before noon being ok ? Strange

The causation in your summary was not established in the video, only claimed with some correlations to other phenomena.

Some non-snarky comments provided some really good counter examples, eg they eat ice cream all afternoon.

Also from my own experience in the south: every morning kids eat a bowl of milk with a shot of espresso over cereal.

....why have I never thought to put espresso in my cereal?

It makes it go soggy really fast but it’s good for a laugh.

> It makes it go soggy really fast [...]

Crunchy granola

Espresso cereal should be a thing.

Agreed, that was just with regards to the comment about the sponsor in the video.

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