The pancreas secretes substances which help in the digestion of starch and other carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Proteases, the enzymes involved in the digestion of proteins, include trypsinogen and chymotrypsinogen. The enzyme involved in the digestion of fats is lipase.
List of official, national and spoken languages of North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. Thanks to the often violent colonization of the Americas, most of the spoken languages are the tongue of the conquerors, about 400 million people in the Americas speak Spanish as their First Language.
What constitutes Latin America Any part of the Americas where a Latin-based language (Spanish, Portuguese) is the dominant language is considered Latin America. This, then, is essentially anything south of the U.S.A.