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Anabolic Steroids Years Ago
826 wordsAthletics today is not the same as it was 20 years ago or even 10 years ago. As the years have past our athletic events have become more important to our society, some athletes are getting paid upwards of a millions dollars a year to do what regular athletes have been doing for years. Since the athletes are getting paid more, it normal means that the games are getting more interesting. The things that make the games more interesting are the fact that todays athletes are going to great lengths to...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs Roger Maris
3,191 wordsStatement of the Problem In the passed few years there has been an increase in the popularity of performance-enhancing supplements that are used by athletes. Some of the most popular of these supplements are creatine and androstenedione. They are used by some very famous athletes in professional sports. There are many problems that go along with using these supplements that are not only health-wise, but also the message that is being sent to children involved in youth athletics. Athletes today a...
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Fruits And Vegetables Beta Carotene
1,982 wordsVitamin supplements: What do most Americans need? Vitamin supplements: What do most Americans need? That is the question I will be attempting to answer in the following few pages. To start, I will talk about their beginning as well as their recent growth in popularity in the past decade. I will discuss the medical views that are for and against the use of supplements, what types are most important, and what types people need. To conclude, I will tell about the supplements that I take and whether...
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Term Side Effects Creatine Monohydrate
1,593 wordsOne of the primary things an athlete will do is put supplements into their body. These supplements range from protein shakes to illegal anabolic steroids. Some sports supplements are incredibly safe and effective, yet others work for a while and then fizzle out, while others still work well but do more damage than good in the long run. In the past athletes had to turn to such things as anabolic steroids or blood doping (the process of taking out blood and adding oxygen to it and putting it back ...
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Dietary Supplements Amino Acids
1,684 wordsJeff Reese was a bright, energetic scholar-athlete at the University of Michigan when he died suddenly on December 9, 1997. His death came as a total shock because, as a wrestler, Reese was a fit young man without any known medical conditions. The autopsy said the cause of death was rhabdomyolysis, a cellular breakdown of skeletal muscle. His family, friends, doctors, and the NCAA all think Reese's death was caused by the supplement creatine Reese was taking to improve his wrestling skills. This...
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Term Side Effects Creatine Monohydrate
1,611 wordsMark Overman on Creatine By. Mark D. Overman Creatine is one of the primary things an athlete will do to put supplements into their body. These supplements range from protein shakes to illegal anabolic steroids. Some sports supplements are incredibly safe and effective, yet others work for a while and then fizzle out, while others still work well but do more damage than good in the long run. In the past athletes had to turn to such things as anabolic steroids or blood doping (the process of taki...
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Dietary Supplements Human Body
626 wordsSupplements: For Better or Worse Human body is the most complex biochemical factory anyone can image, and there is no doubt that this biochemical factory requires hundreds of chemicals supplied from food to function. Every molecule in the body originated from the nutrients we eat. Foods, therefore, make an important contribution to build and to maintain health because they are necessary for the biochemical reactions basic to life. It follows that any nutrient deficiencies can be an important fac...
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