how long is my colon?
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I would say it depends on your age but generally it's about 5 to 5.5 ft long according to this site....\nhttp://www.health-information-fitness.com/cleanse/colon.html
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That varies quite a bit depending on age, physical condition, illness or the lack therof, and the composition of your diet.  In a healthy, moderately active adult, it takes about 20 hours.  A person can sometimes consciously regulate one's bowel habits so that one goes to the toilet at about the same time every day.\n\nDon't get all panicky if you don't seem to be able to force yourself into a rigid schedule; not everyone can do that.  And don't believe any bullcrap idea that says you MUST empty your bowels each and every day.  That simply isn't true.  And don't fall for such guff as "you must detoxify your body regularly with enemas".  That, too, is bullcrap.  Some folks will push hard to convince you otherwise, but that's because they stand to gain by making a fool of you - they stand to gain your money, yo!\n\nIOW, most folks don't need to worry a bit about their bowels.  It all works out in the end!
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The human intestine is a necessary part of the digestive system. The human digestive system consists of the mouth, the throat (pharynx), the esophagus, the stomach, the small intestine, and the large intestine. Specifically, the human intestine consists of two parts, the small intestine and the large intestine.\n\nThe small intestine is a long, narrow, coiled tube extending from the stomach to the large intestine. This is the place where most digestion and absorption of food takes place. The small intestine of a human can be as long as six to eight meters long, depending on age and size of being. So much length can be compacted into so little space because of the nature of the small intestine; it is coiled and takes up less space, while maintaining it's enormous surface area.\n\nThe large intestine is the posterior or end of the human intestine that consists of four regions the, the cecum, the colon, the rectum and the anal canal. The large intestine is wider but shorter than the small intestine. It measures approximately 1.5 meters in length and its primary function is to absorb water and electrolytes that have already passed unabsorbed through the small intestine.\n\nIn mathematics, as well as physics, the value of the whole is equal to the sum of its parts. Therefore the average length of the human intestine is equal to the length of the small intestine added to the length of the large intestine. As a result the average length of the human intestine can be anywhere from 6 to 8.5 meters in length depending on size and age of the person it occupies.
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Why your poop smell bad ?\nBecause whatever you eating it stays in your system more than 24 hour. Should come out by poop within 24 hour.\n\nIf poop stays more than 24 hour means it stays in rectum more than 2 or three or mor hour than rectum absorbs water from the poop and it starting to smell bad in rectum, you can not smell bad because it is in rectum but when you go poop it comes out and smells bad. Sometime it painful too. This is one thing.\n\nSecond thing you are not drinking enough water and it is very hart do digest food for your digestive system. Digestive system needs water to digest food.\n\nYou need to drink water one gall-an a day. If you do that your problem will be solve with in three month.\n\nYour poop will come out smoothly and will not be smell bad.\n\nOne thing you and we should remember that our body design for vegetarian food. Try to be vegetarian.\n\nMeat stays in stomach more than 24 hour. Remember that too. This is one more reason for poop smell bad.\n\nIf your digestive system works properly all 95% disease stay away from you.\n\nIf your digestive system not works properly, invites all disease.
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According to the slithery sites in our Digestive System category, we have about thirty feet of intestines in our body! The small intestine, where most of the digesting happens, is over twenty-two feet long! The inner surface of the small intestine is covered with millions of tiny finger-like extensions called villi. These villi absorb the nutrients from the food and pass them into the blood supply. The large intestine, or colon, is about six feet long. It reabsorbs water from the undigested food passed on from the small intestine. A meal usually stays in your stomach for around three hours, but can stay in your digestive system for up to three days.
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The sheep/deer. These are herbivores and both ruminants. Digesting grass is tough work and you need a lot of intestine to do the work. The average human has a small intestine arouind 20 feet long. A horse, by comparison, has a digestive tract that is 100 feet long.
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It takes an average of 18-24 hours for a meal to be fully digested and move into the large intestine as the waste that cannot be digested, which becomes feces.  The more one eats, the more one has to get rid of in the bowel movement.  It also depends what you eat.  Foods high in fiber, like fruits, vegetables, and whole wheats, have a lot of components that are not digested and move right through the digestive system.  The large intestine is about 6 feet in length, so it has the capacity to store a lot of stuff.  However, feces cannot be stored for very long times.  When fecal matter has moved into the sigmoid colon an rectum, the pressure increases and receptors in the rectum fire to the brain to tell other rectal muscles to contract and have a bowel movement.   Bowel movements with a week or more between indicates a slow digestive tract and possible backup of compacted fecal matter that is almost stuck to large intestine.  Laxatives or possible mechanical methods can be used to fix this.
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This tube in the adult ranges from 10 to 14 inches in length, and 1 inch in diameter. ...\nwww.ddc.musc.edu/ddc_pub/digestiveOrgans/esophagus.htm
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The digestive system begins with the mouth and extends through the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine, ending with the rectum and anus. Other organs in this system include the liver, pancreas, gallbladder, and appendix.\nThe large and small intestines are between 25 and 28 feet long.
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verry long, depends on how old you are and how long you keep living, there is a record for longest beard i thought it was over a meter but i dont know the exact lenght
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The small intsestine is appproxiamtely 20ft 6-7 m long, in a cadavar, the small intestine is only about 2-4m 8-13 ft because of to mucle tone and the large intestine is about 1.5m ----hence the name large and small comes from the intestines width NOT length, the large intestine in wider or "larger" than the small intestines width
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40 days.\n\nGood evening:)
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My husband had a foot of his colon removed and is doing fine. However, if they remove the entire colon (I'm assuming there's something like hardening of the arteries taking place there) you may have to have a colostromy bag. My brother just had that procedure and is also doing very well. Be sure to find out exactly what your doctor is planning on doing....knowing what to expect will help ease your worry. \n\nSurgey can be frightening and there are always risks involved, but I am sure it is for the best. You won't feel anything during the operation, but you will be sore afterwards. They'll give you medicine to relieve the pain and place you on a special diet until you're healed inside. Today they make smaller incisions and people tend to heal faster. You will probably be allowed to go home after just a few days.\n\nI wish the best and may you make a speedy recovery!
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If it's longer than 10 see a Dr. or emergency room. Especially if you have pain.3-5 days is normal.
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In anatomy of the digestive system, the colon or large intestine is the part of the intestine from the cecum to the rectum. Its primary purpose is to extract water from feces. In mammals, it consists of the ascending colon on the right side, the transverse colon, the descending colon on the left side, the sigmoid colon, and the rectum.
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Do you mean the length of the actual bowel (the large intestine)?\n\nThe large intestines is approximately 1.5 meters in length.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colon_(anatomy)\nThe colon measures about 5 ft (1.5 m) in length.  http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2787\n\nJust in case you meant small intestine:  total length of the small intestine in adult men averages over twenty feet. http://www.scientia.org/cadonline/Biology/digestive/smallintest.ASP\nThe total length of the small bowel is approximately 6 meters.   http://www.ddc.musc.edu/ddc_pub/digestiveOrgans/smallBowel.htm
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You mean length??  The large intestine is about 1.5 metres long and the small intestine is about 20 feet long!