What's New and Beneficial about Carrots. 1  Carrots were one of the vegetables examined in recent research on foods rich in beta-carotene and bone health. More specifically, intake of yellow/orange and green vegetables was evaluated to see if greater intake was related to greater bone mass.
exists and is an alternate of . If your colon is removed and nothing else is done for you, you will die. In modern medicine removal of part or all of the colon is accompanied by provision of a colostomy or iliostomy, where the remaining end of the colon or of the small intestine is brought through the abdominal wall to the exterior.
Even though the colon is also known as the large intestine, itâs actually only between 3 and 5 feet long, but itâs wider than the small intestine. Anything that wasnât absorbed in the small intestine will move into the large intestine, mostly fiber, bacteria and water. The large intestine basically has 3 jobs: Absorbs Water: A healthy colon absorbs 80% of the water that passes through it. The longer food sits in the colon, the more water is absorbed which means constipation. Not good.