...In the 1930’s steroids were first developed, but athletes first figured out that they gained a lot of muscle in the 1950’s. Not until March 1, 1991 steroids were illegal to athletes. Even though many professional sports players and bodybuilders are abusing steroids and you may never know it. Pete Rose for example used the drug Amphetamine, also called “greenies”, just to lose some weight. Other great players used cocaine to stay alert during games so that the players can react faster to catch a baseball coming at them quickly (Porterfield). Steroids do grow muscle and can be legal, but some steroids are bad and are illegal, for just the normal human or any professional sports athlete. The great players from the MLB (Major League Baseball), Tim Raines, Dave Parker, and Keith Hernandez were the players that used cocaine to stay alert for the long drug out games to react to a fast coming line drive, pop fly, or grounder (Steroids). Mark McGwire admitted to using steroids after he retired in 2001, and after breaking the single season HR record with seventy home runs. He used...
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...Anabolic Steroids in Sport Glory Gomez American Military University Steroids Anabolic steroids have plagued the world of sports for decades, and even while there have been numerous technological and research advances towards finding efficient and innovative ways to interrupt anabolic steroid abusers’ efforts, the number of cases are still on the rise. Just as enforcers are trying to find more efficient ways to prevent steroid abuse in the world of sports, athletes are finding different ways to camouflage the substance as well as new methods to creep by drug testing. In the end, some athletes are desperate to find ways to have an upper hand against the competition, regardless of the possible risks and/or consequence that...
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...they are already amazing at. How one would define the term “doping” is the use of substances and any other available methods of artificially enhancing performance in a sporting event. Steroids initially began in weight-lifting, continuing on the major pro sports. As of today, one in a pro sport uses these to either keep up with daily physical challenges and commands, or gain an advantage over an opposing team or player. Steroids in all athletics should be banned because of it sets a bad example, ruins sportsmanship, has harsh physical effects, and because steroids are a form of cheating. Doping can be used anywhere, not just in sports. But when...
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...Negative Effects of Steroids The intent of this essay is to show that steroids have many negative effects and that steroids, and other natural supplements, should be closely studied by the FDA. This essay will also support the claim that the professional sports industry needs to eliminate steroid use and set a good example for younger athletes. Over one million American seek short cuts to larger muscles and greater endurance with anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. Steroids are drugs that act like chemical in the body. Most steroids are transformed into testosterone when they enter the body. Testosterone is a male growth hormone. While user may gain short-term results, they are seriously shortchanging their health (Kalawalski 13-15). Some of the ill effects of the drugs are damage to the kidneys and liver. A person can also alter the balance of the natural hormones. This can cause detrimental affects to the body. The effects of you natural hormones being out of balance can last several years after being off the drugs. Some male user form breasts due to the use of steroids. Because of the increase in testosterone, steroids can cause serious acne problems. When used by teens is can cause stunted growth. Other side effects include genital changes, water retention, yellow eyes, coronary artery disease, ligament injuries, high blood pressure, changes in cholesterol levels, sterility and liver disease. The list goes on and on...
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...Reproducible Skills Pages, Including: >>Body & Brain Science >>Reading Comprehension >>Graphs, Charts >>Critical Thinking >>Sequencing 14 Drug Education Activities FROM SCHOLASTIC AND THE SCIENTISTS OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES STEPHEN KRONINGER(ILLUSTRATION) Dear Teacher, One of the most important things you can do as a teacher is to give your students information about the health effects of drug abuse. Together with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), we’ve put together this 16-page book of reproducibles, full of facts and activities on drugs of abuse. This book is just one component of our ongoing drug education program, “Heads Up: Real News About Drugs and Your Body,” a partnership between NIDA and Scholastic Inc. These skills pages can be used alone or to support and extend the feature articles that appeared in your classroom magazine in the 2002- 2003 school year and are continuing this year. This book includes an introduction to the brain, that crucial organ so vulnerable to drugs of abuse. Then, we focus on the health effects of specific drugs, including marijuana, inhalants, nicotine, steroids, prescription drugs, club drugs, heroin, and cocaine. While you can use these reproducibles to support a drug education, health, or human-body science curriculum, the activities extend into other areas. In order to complete the activities, students must read charts and graphs...
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...temptation about it and its effect however its forbidden in the united states unless it is used for specific treatment. Decades ago the facts of performance enhancers have shown us a lot about what these drugs can do to our bodies and how badly does it affect the body. Since they discovered These stimuli they tried it at the beginning on animals for example the racing dogs and horses then athletes started to use it after seeing its crazy effect on the performance and the shape of the body. In the first place, according to researches and surveys about the advantages and disadvantages of Performance Enhancing Drugs on health some people think that “If each of us ought to be free to assume risks that we think are worth taking, shouldn't athletes have the same freedom as anyone else? In particular, if athletes prefer the gains in performance allegedly provided by the use of steroids, along with the increased risk of harm to the alternative of less risk and worse performance, what gives anyone the right to interfere with their choice? After all, if we should not forbid smokers from risking their health by smoking, why should we prohibit track stars or weightlifters from taking risks with their health in pursuit of their goals” but, “Performance enhancers, like steroids and other forms of doping, have a negative effect on long-term health. For then users of these enhancers are hurting themselves in the long run without on the average improving their short-term rewards from athletic...
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...Steroids are one of the most controversial drugs known to the human race. These drugs are seemingly notorious for their ability to produce large amounts of muscle mass in an attempt to exploit ultimate power, performance, and dominance in a person. However, the negative effects of steroids tend to have a severe impact on the justification of the drug’s use in today’s society. When I say society, I am rather referring to a more predominant superior subculture, the professional athlete that can easily be held accountable for the cultivation and spread of steroids. This “high-class” group can denote the contrary of ethics; that is, revealing actions which tend to expose a sense of narcissistic personal qualities that hinder our beliefs of what is right and what is wrong. At one point or another, performance enhancing substances outspokenly seem to enter every professional athlete’s mind. The issue of steroids or any performance enhancing drugs in this matter has significantly heightened recently and seems to be a legitimate issue within professional sports. In an attempt to meet expectations and standards, reduce the pressures to perform, and alleviate public scrutiny, many professional athletes are left quivering in fear whether or not to take the two-faced drug that’s so readily adhered to by many. In my attempt to explore the mainstream issue of steroids in professional sports, I wish to focus on three imperative aspects that will help assist in the configuration...
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...the athletes who do not use performance enhancing drugs. When athletes use performance enhancing drugs it affects their health and if they are caught when drug tested the athlete can face severe punishments. Consequently, if an athlete is caught using performance enhancing drugs it sends a negative message to young people that often look up to professional athletes. If drug testing was not required in professional sports, some athletes would gain an unfair advantage. Performance enhancing drugs have been used from all the way back to the Greek Olympics through present day. The first drug tests began in February 1968 at the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France. "The IOC instituted its first compulsory doping controls at the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France in 1968 and again at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City in the same year. At that time the list of banned substances issued in 1967 included narcotic analgesics and stimulants, which comprised sympathomimetic amines, psychomotor stimulants and miscellaneous central nervous system stimulants [including alcohol]. Although it was suspected that androgenic anabolic steroids were being used at this time, testing methods were insufficiently developed to warrant the inclusion of anabolic steroids in the list of banned substances" (Mottram). In 1928, the first rules against doping in sports were established by the International Association of Athletes Federation (IAAF). “The IAAF, the governing body for track and field...
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...Ash English 11 1 June 2009 Steroids Steroids where invented by the Germans in the late 1930’s to enhance the physical performance of their athletes so that they could be better than every other country in the world for professional sports. Ever since then, people have been risking their health and their life by taking them. Some people take steroids to get stronger or to have a competitive edge in sports, others take them to get rid of rashes, like poison ivy, but no matter how or why steroids are taken there is always an enormous risk of permanently changing the way someone looks and sounds. Also if someone plays sports there is an even bigger risk because of fines, suspensions or accidental overdoses. There are many side effects from taking steroids and there are even more risks, one of which will result in death. The usage of steroids among high school students is on the rise. “Steroid use in high schools has been steadily increasing for the last thirteen years” (Mihoces 1), this is extremely frightening because there are many horrible side affects when people and especially teenagers use steroids. Males and females both have different reactions physically when they use steroids but they also share some of the same side effects including, liver damage, this is because these substances are normally absorbed in the liver, constant mood swings, and profound depression. Except the side effects don’t stop there, in males steroid use can result in premature balding...
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...ANALOGY ESSAY SAMPLES • While not perfect, these samples from students past should give you an idea on how to organize and approach this essay. • If you have any questions, please ask. Should We Pay? Many issues have been plaguing the sports world recently, especially the question of paying college athletes. Are athletics so important that colleges need to put out millions of dollars per year just to pay for students to play for them? Paying college athletes is like throwing a lit match into a haystack: once the fire is started, it just keeps burning, making a bad situation worse. There are several differences between the haystack and paying athletes. To start, throwing a needle in a haystack is a totally negative concept; everything will burn. However, with paying college athletes, some people can find reasons why this could be a positive thing. For instance, some believe paying athletes will bring more competition to the table and make some colleges much more prestigious than others. Others say this will bring in more money and more revenue. A second difference is the end of the situation. At the end of the fire, there is smoke and it will eventually put itself out. However, this is an issue that cannot extinguish itself. No matter what the verdict, someone is going to be unhappy and the "fire" will keep burning. [pic]Despite these differences there are many similarities between the two. One similarity is the haystack going up in flames and the...
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...many reasons. PEDs(Performance Enhancing Drugs), HGH(Human Growth Hormone), and other substances can be very dangerous for the body internally...
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...unnoticed by society but some how seems to cross many peoples minds. Little do the athletes and the contributors to their addiction know what lasting effects involving health issues, how it alters their life longevity, and how it can also ruin their careers. Doping is an unfair advantage in sports and deserves to be banned. A article “Drug abuse in Athletes,” by Claudia Reardon and Shane Creado, part of the department of psychiatry, at the University...
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...Nephron in Kidneys All living organisms require a source of energy, usually in the form of food, to satisfy the cellular demands of the body and ultimately to sustain life. Thus, the nutrients that are consumed by organisms are broken down by various processes within organs, tissues, and cells, in order for important molecules, like minerals, vitamins, proteins, and carbohydrates, to be taken up and distributed around the body. The molecules not needed by the body or ends up as excess in the blood, is discarded as waste products; the system that is responsible for filtering our body, or rather our blood from these waste products, is known as the urinary system. The urinary system consists of organs in the body specific to filtering out excessive fluid and other substances from the bloodstream. This system works together with other organs like the lungs, skin, and intestines, all of which help with the process of eliminating wastes, and regulate the amount of chemicals and water floating in a person’s body (Campbell, “Excretory System”). In addition, these accessory systems to the urinary system ultimately help the body maintain pressure, volume, and composition of the blood (Campbell, “Excretory”). Along with electrolytes, uric acid, and glucose, the urinary system also removes a protein essential for breaking down proteins in the body which is called urea. Urea, together with water and other waste products, forms the liquid that is excreted from organisms commonly known as...
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...Bodybuilding Anaerobic Exercise & Respiration, Muscular Growth and Supplement Intake Ajay Sabhaney, Carlen Ng, Di Wu, Kelei Xu Bodybuilding Page 1 of 59 Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. The Body & Muscle Groups a. Muscle Growth b. Physical & Psychological Benefits of Exercising 3. Weight Training: Anaerobic Exercise Mechanics & Impact on Muscle Growth a. Energy Transformations During an Exercise b. Investigating Torque in Weight Training c. Muscles Acting as Levers d. Impulse in Weight Training e. Intensity versus Speed 4. Protein Supplementation a. Protein supplementation b. Combining Protein Supplementation 5. Cellular Respiration & Effect on Weight Training a. Glycolysis b. Aerobic Respiration c. Anaerobic Respiration (inc. lactic acid) d. Carbohydrate Loading 6. Creatine Supplementation a. An Introduction b. Lab: Effect of Phosphocreatine on Lactic Acid 7. Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids a. Reactions within the Body involving steroids b. Side Effects of Steroid Intake c. Detecting Steroids in the Human Body 8. Conclusion 9. Works Cited 10. Miscellaneous Bodybuilding Page 2 of 59 I. Introduction Exercise (essentially any form of physical exertion which results in the contraction of a muscle) has become a widespread interest over the past several years, especially in areas of weight training. While exercise is generally intended to promote good physical health, bodybuilding more specifically concentrates on building muscle mass and many individuals in society...
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...Drugs have an interesting history that many people may not even know. During the 1600’s, Jamestown settlers were the first to grow the first drug that we now know as marijuana. Europeans were major contributors that were involved with planting flowers, sugar and mostly important tobacco. French began to explore their new substances and expanded the wealth, using expensive travels by ships and spread it with different cultures like the Spanish, Portuguese and British. Pierre Pomet was considered to be the French official, when referring to drugs. Pierre seeked every possible opportunity and introduced methods where his work actually became appealing. Pomet ran a well-renown and fashionable apothecary store in Paris, and was appointed chief druggist to Louis XIV “(O’Sullivan, 2014).Myths were told all the time, but not everyone really believed them or paid any attention to them. A man named Christopher Columbus during the late 1400’s, developed new trade routes for those drug trafficking owners and dealers. Everyone knew Christopher as the man who discovered America and other conspiracies. He was a famous explorer during the time and everyone decided to take advantage of Columbus’s trade routes to India and China. The Chinese community often associated with the French and Dutch traders. Colonists from Europe believe that sooner or later traders were going to get caught distributing illegal substances. As centuries passed by, ships became more durable and bigger which benefited...
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