'Stiff' Bowels May Explain Young People's Higher Cancer Risk

Recent research showed that almost half of bowel cancer cases happen among under-65s. 

It wasn’t always that way. Since the ’80s, doctors have noticed that over-50s are getting the condition less, while younger people are seeing more and more cases. 

We aren’t sure exactly why that is, though some doctors have shared some possible causes, like “ultra-processed diets, sedentary behaviour, stress, and disrupted sleep”, with HuffPost UK previously. 

But now, bioengineers from the University of Texas...