Actually, borderline diabetes is a somewhat misleading term. The term pre-diabetes, which is more widely used today, better describes what is happening. Pre-diabetes means that your blood glucose is higher than normal but not yet high enough to be considered diabetes.
Fat digestion also begins in the mouth with the secretion of the enzyme lingual lipase by glands under your tongue. Although this enzyme doesn't do much with the food while it's in your mouth, it does move on down with the food to your stomach, where it can start to break down about 10-30% of the food's fat content.
Mouth The mouth is the beginning of the digestive tract; and, in fact, digestion starts here when taking the first bite of food. Chewing breaks the food into pieces that are mâ¦ore easily digested, while saliva mixes with food to begin the process of breaking it down into a form your body can absorb and use.