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Michael B

Sports Supplements - 0 views

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  • Sports Supplements
  • Sports Supplements
  • Sports supplements (also called ergogenic aids) are products used to enhance athletic performance that may include vitamins, minerals, amino acids, herbs, or botanicals (plants) — or any concentration, extract, or combination of these
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  • Some over-the-counter medicines and prescription medications, including anabolic steroids, are used to enhance performance but they are not considered supplements.
  • Androstenedione (also known as andro) and dehydroepiandrosterone (also known as DHEA) are prohormones or "natural steroids" that can be broken down into testosterone.
  • Creatine is already manufactured by the body in the liver, kidneys, and pancreas. It also occurs naturally in foods such as meat and fish. Creatine supplements are available over the counter, and teens make up a large portion of the supplement's users.
  • People who take creatine usually take it to improve strength, but the long-term and short-term effects of creatine use haven't been studied in teens and kids.
  • Michael B on 26 Mar 10
     
    Creatine
William N

PARENTING CORNER Q & A: STEROIDS - 1 views

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  • In guys, steroid use causes the body to produce less testosterone. The result? Your testicles shrink. What else? A low sperm count Impotence (inability to get an erection) Breast and nipple growth Enlarged prostate (a gland in the penis)
William N

I Lost My Son to Steroids - 0 views

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  • I Lost My Son to Steroids
  • Taylor Hooton, a 17-year-old high school athlete from Plano, Texas, took his own life on July 15, 2003 as a result of the abuse of anabolic steroids. Only after his death did his parents become aware of the illegal use and abuse of anabolic steroids among high school athletes across the country. In this interview Hooton talks about the responsibility of professional athletes, and his work with the Drug Enforcement Administration. Don Hooton is the chairman and president of the Taylor Hooton Foundation for fighting steroid abuse based in Plano, Texas.
  • William N on 26 Mar 10
     
    U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. "I Lost My Son to Steroids." Contemporary Issues Companion: Steroids. Ed. Stefan Kiesbye. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2008. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL EAST. 26 Mar. 2010 .
Michael B

Are Steroids Worth the Risk? - 4 views

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  • Anabolic steroids stimulate muscle tissue to grow and "bulk up" in response to training by mimicking the effect of naturally produced testosterone on the body
  • hGH is only legal when prescribed by a doctor for a medical condition
  • Steroids have become popular because they may improve endurance, strength, and muscle mass.
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  • The body produces steroids naturally to support such functions as fighting stress and promoting growth and development
  • Anabolic steroids are artificially produced hormones that are the same as, or similar to, androgens, the male-type sex hormones in the body. There are more than 100 variations of anabolic steroids
  • The most powerful androgen is testosterone
  • Another group of steroids, sometimes called steroidal supplements, contains dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and/or androstenedione (also known as andro). For the most part, steroidal supplements, which used to be found at health food stores or gyms, are now illegal and require a prescription. DHEA is one of the few exceptions and can still be bought over the counter.
  • Michael B on 26 Mar 10
     
    Affects of Steroids
Michael B

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center Document - 1 views

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  • Non—Steroid Users Should Be Barred from Athletic Competition
  • Steroids are no different from any other technology or substance that enables athletes to compete at high levels. Athletes who take steroids must still work hard in order to achieve results, as these substances are not a replacement for exercise. Because steroids help improve the level of athletic performance, and fans deserve to see the best that sports have to offer, athletes who do not use steroids should be banned from competing. Their inferior performances lessen the entertainment value of sports.
  • Athletes are always seeking some edge over their competitors, and the truth of the matter is that the use of steroids, if only they were legal, would be as legitimate a means of performance enhancement as any other
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  • the dangers of their use have been vastly exaggerated
  • The average newspaper reader is not familiar with any of the following. Androstenedione; 19-androstenedione; 4-androstenediol; 5-androstenediol; norandrostenediol; 19-norandrostenediol; tribulus terrestris; DHEA; enzymatic conversion accelerators; growth hormone stimulators; hormone-releasing peptides. They might imagine, on hearing such unpronounceables, that these are banned substances. Of course they'd be wrong. These are the standard weapons of so-called "clean" athletes who are also looking for "an edge".
  • As things now stand, those who don't use steroids are using every legal trick they know to get that "roid" look.
  • look like steroids, feel like steroids, work like steroids". The boast is that it is all legal, too
  • . In track and field we now have fiberglass poles instead of the hickory shafts of eighty years ago.
  • Serious swimmers now wear exotic outfits—full body suits, half body suits, all made of strange material—everything but what we once recognized as swim suits
  • Technology cannot be halted and it shouldn't be, for eventually it comes around to the benefit of all
  • 1928 a runner set a world record in the 100 yard dash but it was disallowed because he used gadgets he called "starting blocks" instead of digging "natural" holes in the ground. Within eight years it became illegal to dig holes in the ground. What had been an unfair advantage was now a requirement.
  • Technology has also struck home in powerlifting where the use of the bench shirt has revolutionized our sense of what is possible. The bench shirt is so tight that a person needs at least two strong men to help him don his shirt and it takes over three minutes. He needs the same help removing it when he is done. The shirt permits an initial thrust that allows the lifter to lift as much as twenty pounds more than he could ever do "raw". How ironic it is that no sinister steroid has yet been discovered that gives the same pluck for the buck that this entirely legal shirt gives. In truth, steroids are no more "unfair" than bench shirts. It is hypocritical for lifters who use bench shirts (nearly all of them) to boast they never go near steroids.
  • Steroids do not work like magic. They do give direct physiological advantages but the main advantage they give is increased capacity for hard work. Take steroids all you want but never exercise and your body will still look like that of the skinny kid in the Charles Atlas ads who got sand kicked in his face.
  • Professional athletes, like violinists, need to be as good as they can be. Isaac Stern uses a violin worth $100,000 and this gives him an advantage, over and above his technical superiority, to the ordinary member of an ordinary orchestra
  • Crowds are much larger at men's professional basketball games that at women's. The reason is simple: the level of play is much better.
  • Steroids improve the level of performance. Ben Johnson ran faster and Bulgarian weightlifters lift more thanks to steroids. That is good for sport, not bad.
  • Why should I, as a fan, care whether Ben drank $180 per month of protein drinks and paid another $800 for legal substances whose names I can barely pronounce or, instead, jabbed himself with needles filled with nandrolone?
  • For all the money they have to lay out, fans are entitled to the best possible performances
  • Gendin, Sidney. "Non—Steroid Users Should Be Barred from Athletic Competition." At Issue: Steroids. Ed. Laura K. Egendorf. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2006. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL EAST. 25 Mar. 2010 <http://find.galegroup.com/ovrc/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T010&prodId=OVRC&docId=EJ3010376216&source=gale&srcprod=OVRC&userGroupName=smithtown&version=1.0>.
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Michael B

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  • The Goals and Risks of Bulking Up
  • Anabolic steroids are natural hormones produced by the body that help build muscle. The male sex hormone testosterone is the most active anabolic steroid in the human body.
  • Anabolic steroids are natural hormones produced by the body that help build muscle.
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  • Russian weight lifters in the 1954 world weight lifting competition introduced anabolic steroids to international athletic competition. This practice was widely adopted, including by American coaches, and by the 1964 Olympics, the practice was widespread.
  • Huge doses of testosterone can increase muscle mass, as weight lifters have claimed for years.
  • Most researchers estimate that 3 to 5 percent of high school age athletes and 5 to 15 of adult athletes use performance-enhancing drugs (mainly anabolic steroids).
  • Anabolic steroids do increase the size of muscle fibers. They do this by entering muscle cells and stimulating the production of proteins
  • The American College of Sports Medicine has stated that anabolic steroids can increase body mass, but they do not increase aerobic power or capacity for muscular exercise.
  • slight performance benefits in some situations mean the differences between winning and losing.
  • anabolic steroids may increase muscle mass in part by preventing the normal muscle breakdown by another hormone.
  • Michael B on 25 Mar 10
     
    Some Positive side effects of steroids
William N

Performance-Enhancing Drugs Are Harmful to Health - 1 views

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  • Steroid abuse disrupts the normal production of hormones in the body, causing both reversible and irreversible changes.
  • Steroid abuse has been associated with cardiovascular diseases (CVD), including heart attacks and strokes, even in athletes younger than 30. Steroids contribute to the development of CVD, partly by changing the levels of lipoproteins that carry cholesterol in the blood. Steroids, particularly oral steroids, increase the level of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and decrease the level of high-density lipoprotein (HDL). High LDL and low HDL levels increase the risk of atherosclerosis, a condition in which fatty substances are deposited inside arteries and disrupt blood flow. If blood is prevented from reaching the heart, the result can be a heart attack. If blood is prevented from reaching the brain, the result can be a stroke. Steroids also increase the risk that blood clots will form in blood vessels, potentially disrupting blood flow and damaging the heart muscle so that it does not pump blood effectively.
  • An undetermined percentage of steroid abusers may become addicted to the drugs, as evidenced by their continued abuse despite physical problems and negative effects on social relations.
  • William N on 25 Mar 10
     
    Abuse, National Institute on Drug. "Performance-Enhancing Drugs Are Harmful to Health." At Issue: Performance Enhancing Drugs. Ed. Louise Gerdes. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2008. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL EAST. 25 Mar. 2010 . How to Cite
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Steroids Are Dangerous - 1 views

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  • Steroids are natural and man-made supplements that enhance an athlete's performance. In the following viewpoint Steven Ungerleider asserts that steroid use is becoming more pervasive in sports, especially among middle and high school athletes. He maintains that while steroid use may increase an athlete's endurance and enhance muscle growth, it also has many risky side effects, such as aggression and high blood pressure
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  • These drugs have a great many other risks as well. Men may develop reduced sperm production, shrunken testicles, impotence, and irreversible breast enlargement
  • Women may develop deep voices and excessive body hair. In either sex, baldness and acne are risks. The ratio of good to bad lipids may change, increasing the danger of heart attacks, strokes, and liver cancer. In adolescents bone growth may stop prematurely. Injecting steroids with contaminated needles creates a risk of HIV and other blood-borne infections.
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  • Researchers at the Oregon Health Sciences University have devised an effective program known as Adolescents Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids (ATLAS). It is a team-centered and gender-specific approach that educates athletes about the dangers of steroids and other drugs while providing alternatives including nutritional advice and strength training.
  • William N on 25 Mar 10
     
    Ungerleider, Steven. "Steroids Are Dangerous." Opposing Viewpoints: Drug Abuse. Ed. Tamara L. Roleff. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2005. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL EAST. 25 Mar. 2010 .
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