About Steve Carper

Steve Carper writes:

I’m lactose intolerant. I wrote the book on the subject. Literally. Milk Is Not for Every Body: Living with Lactose Intolerance is its name. I’ve researched everything on the subject of lactose intolerance for 30 years. I know just about everything about living without dairy products. That means I’ve been able to help people with dairy protein allergies, vegans, those who want to keep kosher, and others who want to reduce, limit, or eliminate dairy from the diet. I keep an eye out for information that might be useful. You can see a lot of it at my website, Steve Carper’s Lactose Intolerance Clearinghouse When the site got too big to update regularly I started the Planet Lactose blog to be able to post the incredible range and volume of information that the world provides on living with dairy. It really does cover the planet for lactose- and dairy-related items, probably the only blog in the world that does this.

In 1978 when Steve Carper first learned he was lactose intolerant, no books on the subject, no medications, and few specialty foods made life easier. He corrected that with the first major book on the subject, No Milk Today: How to Live with Lactose Intolerance. A decade later, after more first-hand research – including visiting the factory that makes lactase, watching a technician process the results of a lactose tolerance test, and obtaining the first CD-ROM database of lactose in medications – he published the definitive reference work, Milk Is Not for Every Body: Living with Lactose Intolerance, now purchaseable through Planet Lactose Publishing.

Steve soon realized that a website would keep his book up-to-date and give a home to information about the ever-growing stream of new products and cookbooks. Steve Carper’s Lactose Intolerance Clearinghouse appeared in 1997.

To cope with breaking news, and to combat the plague of pseudoscientific illiteracy on medical reports, food and nutrition, and human digestion that fouls the Web, Steve started the Planet Lactose blog in 2005. Over 1000 posts later it’s become the go-to source on the Internet for objective analysis on all things nondairy. Vegans, people with allergies or parents of allergic children, and those keeping kosher are also made welcome, along with everyone lactose intolerant.

Steve Carper has been a full time freelance writer for nearly 20 years, dividing his time between nonfiction and fiction. In addition to the many works on LI, he also wrote How Tell If Your Kids Are Using Drugs, with Timothy Dimoff, and edited the unique anthology, The Defective Detective: Mystery Parodies by the Great Humorists.

His science fiction has been collected as Tyrannosaur Faire, also available from Planet Lactose Publishing. He is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and writes a column, Writer’s Bloc, for their magazine, the SFWA Bulletin. Past columns can be read on his website at Writers’ Bloc columns. He is currently editing the next SFWA Handbook on the business of writing f&f.