{"id":89964,"date":"2025-08-21T09:26:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=89964"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:26:23","slug":"bowel-cancer-rates-rising-in-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/bowel-cancer-rates-rising-in-young-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowel cancer rates rising in young people"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k7nCU6FcMaczaUDGy38\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nEven younger, generally healthy adults are being affected. Since the mid-1990s, there has been a consistent annual increase of 2% in cases among adults aged 20-39. Experts believe a sedentary lifestyle, lack of exercise and an increased consumption of processed foods and red meat are all at play behind the rise of CRC.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even younger, generally healthy adults are being affected. Since the mid-1990s, there has been a consistent annual increase of 2% in cases among adults aged 20-39. Experts believe a sedentary lifestyle, lack of exercise and an increased consumption of processed foods and red meat are all at play behind the rise of CRC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[38129],"class_list":["post-89964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-bowel-cancer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89966,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89964\/revisions\/89966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}