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by jrs235
4939 days ago
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Was waiting to see someone to make the distinction between ingestion and digestion. Most people would consider me skinny... and I always eating and often things that most would consider fattening or unhealthy. People will remark, "How do you stay so skinny?! You're so lucky!"... Except, I would be willing to bet that I have a digestive disorder. Which one? I don't know and I don't care to find out. For the most part it hasn't/doesn't adversely affect me. It seems that much of what I eat doesn't get digested and/or absorbed by my body. tl;dr; There's a difference between ingestion and digestion. I ingest a lot but probably don't digest much of it. Update: I have strong reasons to believe I have a digestive disorder since they run in my family. Also, I wonder how many calories I burn from being a "leg shaker". |
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Does your faeces float or have oily discharge around it?
Malabsorption of fat is essentially defined by the clinical features that can be easily determined.
Do you get bloated, have excessive flatulus, or discharge? All signs of malabsorption as well.
It is relatively unlikely that people have digestive problems long term without developing consequences as there are pretty much always side-effects from having nutrients running around a 20m track inside your body loaded with bacteria but not being taken into your body.
What you don't absorb, your bacteria will run riot on, with subsequent symptoms;
And if you have a fat malabsorption problem you will rapidly develop symptoms (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olestra or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipase_inhibitors for induced fat malabsorption)