Food Trends and Down Syndrome.

More and More Thai and sushi restaurants are starting to offer brown rice. Porter Airlines serves its sandwiches on multi-grain bread and offers Terra root vegetable chips. The famous chain Pizza Pizza offers multi-grain and gluten-free crusts. ...I must say, what healthy progress the restaurant industry is making!

Now if only I could get Tim Horton's to offer a non-dairy milk option! Now I wish they had a non-dairy option not just vegans, but for lactose intolerant people and also for the 90% of people who likely are lactose intolerant but don't quite realize it. I do support milk (dairy and non-dairy) being offered at Tim Horton's ...gotta have something to soak up the tannins in that astringent coffee and black tea!
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Down Syndrome is the result of one extra chromosome added to the chromosome pair number 21 (referred to as trisomy 21). Note: humans normally have 23 pairs of chromosomes (with 46 chromosomes in total). This addition results in growth, mental, and craniofacial (i.e. face and head) abnormalities. I was surprised to learn the rates of incidence for this syndrome: 1 in every 2000 births (1/2000) when the mother is age 25 or younger, 1/300 when the mother is between age 35 and 40, and a startling 1/100 when the mother is age 40 or older!