Ham, Hips and a Side of Cancer: Why Your Kid’s Lunchbox Might Be a Time Bomb

Forget the turkey twizzlers;new research links childhood obesity to bowel cancer. But before you blame the Monster Munch, take a long hard look at our school dinners, limp policies...

So apparently, if your child waddles into school clutching a ham sandwich and a packet of Monster Munch, you should prepare for bowel cancer to come knocking sometime around their 40th birthday. Because new research, compiled by scientists with clipboards and, presumably very little fun in their lives, has declared that being overweight as a child massively increases your risk of bowel cancer later on.