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.
For purposes of simplicity, the term colon is often used to refer to any of the components of the large intestine, save the rectum. A colectomy that involves removing the entire colon is called a total colectomy. If most of the colon is removed, the procedure is called a subtotal colectomy. When a segment of the colon is removed, it may be called a segmental colectomy, and it may be labeled a hemicolectomy to differentiate the right and left halves of the large intestine.