Bacteria also deconjugate bile acids further
impairing fat digestion and absorption.
Dietary considerations Some authors have suggested feeding low fat diets in order to accommodate
impaired fat digestion.
Not exact matches
For those who have had their gallbladders removed, it may be a good idea to take bile salts (in supplement form) with every meal, as there is a good chance that
fat digestion will be
impaired without them.
But when
fat is mixed with particularly gluey and starchy foods such as bread, pastries and pasta, the glue - like consistency
impairs the activity of bile, leading to poor
fat digestion and gall bladder problems.
Restricting
fat can disrupt your hormones,
impair digestion, weaken your bones and muscles, affect your kidneys and compromise your immune system.
It suppresses the immune system, redistributes
fat, shrinks certain areas of our brain involved in learning and emotional regulation, causes painful muscle contraction,
impairs digestion, and affects our sleep.
The quantity of these nutrients in the diet may also have to be modified (usually increased) to compensate for
impaired protein and
fat digestion.
Although the
digestion of protein and carbohydrate will be affected, the
digestion of
fat is most severely
impaired since lipases are absent from the normal array of intestinal brush border enzymes.