going to take this on a slightly weird angle here:
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;
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)