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.
The amount of chemical digestion that occurs in your small intestine depends on your diet. Digestion starts in your mouth. There your teeth perform mechanical digestion and yo â¦ ur saliva and thrush starts digesting carbohydrates.In your stomach, you start digesting protein from meat and plant sources.igestion of carbohydrates start in the mouth. Amylase, an enzyme in saliva, hydrolyzes starch and glycogen into smaller polysaccharides. This digestion continues in the stomach after the food (bolus) passes through the esophagus.