...How do steroids affect the human body? Steroids can be extremely harmful to people who take them. Steroids can be Given to you medically if you have chronic bronchitis but those steroids are called Corticosteroids which are very different to the harmful version. Steroid are referred to “juice” or “roids” they are a form of male hormones, Testosterone. Steroid are being abused but people who want to change their physical health, Performance and appearance take steroids – Body builders use steroids to gain Muscle so that they can win competitions, athletes use steroids to that they wish To improve their skills as an athlete, many other people us steroids because of Late or early injures to help them recover and carry on with their day to day life’s....
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...II December, 7,2011 The Real Deal of Steroids Athletes are some of the most famous and influential people in the world. Who have many young people who are fans that look up to them. When the word Athletes comes to mind another word is usually followed closed behind it, which is Steroids. The reason for this is that Athletes are always under the limelight for use of Steroids, but do people really know the real use for them or what the history is? Why they are even legal in the first place? There are a lot of background and personal uses for Steroids that go outside, of the physical aspect that people normally think of. For example Steroids is basically a hormone drug that just does what our body at the moment cannot do. There are also different types of hormone steroids that affect different parts of the body and the ways they are actually injected into your body. The real reason for steroids that many people do not get is that it is used as a substitute for faster healing time. Even though they are frowned upon by our society steroids do have a legitimate use for them. Which ranges form helping with hormones or helping with some type of injury. As mention in the web page anabolic small.com “Anabolic steroids have several legitimate medical use.”(par 1) With this statement it is proving that steroids are good for the body for the period of time that you are on them. They are highly addictive and which is why many...
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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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...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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...Banning Steroids Steroids have been around in some form for a great deal of years. They have been used in all types of sports by professional and amateur athletes as well as people who just want massive muscle growth. Steroids have always played a major role in sports and sparked a great controversy of whether professional athletes should be allowed to use different forms of steroids or not. In Let Steroids into the Hall of Fame by Zev Chafets, the author discusses this topic of steroids being made illegal in professional sports. Steroids in sports have been frowned upon for years now as people see it as a way of cheating the system and having unfair advantages over other players. A topic that is commonly missed when talking about steroids is the health risks that it holds. People tend to focus on the performance part of steroids more than the deeper issue at hand which is, how will this affect a persons overall health? Steroids have been known to help peoples health in some cases but not very many. Steroids should be an illegal drug in professional sports due to the fact that the negatives by far outweigh the positives when it comes to peoples health. Steroids have always been used in sports but especially in the medical field. Despite all the negatives that steroids brings along, it can not be denied that many people have been helped by the use of steroids. Steroids when prescribed and taken as directed by the doctor are often safe and effective. One area that steroids can...
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...WORKING OUTLINE TITLE: Effects of Steroids Topic: Steroid Abuse Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about the abuse of steroids and how it affects the person mentally and physically THESIS STATEMENT: Although steroids can be medically beneficial when taken at a correct dosage, they tend to get abused by athletes and have serious side affects INTRODUCTION: (Attention-Getting Material) When you think of Lance Armstrong, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Marion Jones or Jose Canseco, what comes to mind? Credibility Material: I’ve seen first hand the effects of steroids on the body Preview: Going to tell how steroids are being abused by athletes and teens and the side effects of using steroids BODY: Main Point # I: What steroids are and what they are used for Sub-point A: Everyone produces their own steroidal hormones, either from the adrenal gland, pituitary gland, or the sex organs Evidence/Support_______________________________________________________________ Sub-point B: Two types called corticosteroid and anabolic steroids Evidence/Support: corticosteroids are used in medicine for skin conditions such as eczema and burn victims, inflammation, jumpstart metabolism, and to inhibit growth. Anabolic steroids are not used in medicine but is a synthetic drug and is used to help build muscle and enhance performance in many different sports. TRANSITION STATEMENT: Now lets talk about how anabolic steroids are abused by athletes and other people...
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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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...[Debate 3: Steroid Use in Professional Sports] | A view opposing the use of steroids | Merriam-Webster defines a steroid as “any of numerous natural or synthetic compounds containing a 17-carbon 4-ring system and including the sterols and various hormones and glycosides.” A more specific steroid is called an anabolic steroid. The definition for Anabolic steroid is “a class of man-made drugs that are chemically related to the male hormone testosterone.” Anabolic steroids are more accurately called anabolic-androgenic steroids. This name defines their two principle characteristics. Anabolic means to synthesize or build up; thus anabolic steroids increase skeletal muscle mass. Androgenic means involving male sexual characteristics. Anabolic steroids are related to testosterone and affect the body in many of the same ways as testosterone. As of 2009, not a single anabolic steroid had been manufactured that was free of negative side effects. In many developing countries, anabolic steroids can be purchased without a prescription. However, in the United States, they have been controlled substances since 1991. Possession of an anabolic steroid without a prescription is illegal and can result in a maximum one-year prison sentence and a minimum fine of $1,000 fine for the first offense. Steroids only purpose for the professional athlete is to artificially boost muscle mass and power. The steroid user gains a significant edge over their fellow competitors who do not employ such unscrupulous...
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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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...would probably ban steroid usage in sports. It is amazing what athletes will do to achieve higher levels of performance and to sometimes get the extra edge on the competition. Most of the time people do not realize the long-term effects that result from the decisions they make early in life. This is like the use of steroids in a person's life. Even though steroids are known as a somewhat dangerous substance, they are legal to have and to consume. Most people out there take steroids because they know they can not compete at the level against their opponents who are using steroids to go to the next level of performance. A lot of influence comes from professional athletes. If professional athletes are taking steroids, then a high school athlete has to be kicking the thought around of trying steroids. They have to wonder how they are going to succeed if they do not take them. Steroid use could possibly be lowered in high school age kids if their high school PE teachers taught their students about the effects of steroids and the lifestyle it could lead to. Every year more and more famous retired athletes are admitting to steroid use in their career. People need to listen to what they have to say, and use them as the example for teaching the younger crowd. In conclusion I think using steroid is cheating and shouldn’t be allowed. Not only should it not be allowed in sports but also in life. I don’t like what they do to your body and also the side affects of taking them...
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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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...The piece of technology I will be adding to the story The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is anabolic steroids.They will arrive in this story by a travelling salesman who was passing through the town, carrying a ‘miracle drug’, promising that it can boost performance and do other amazing things. Anabolic steroids are a synthetic version of testosterone and can be used to enhance a person's performance, boost muscle growth, and decrease the amount of rest muscles need to recover. The steroids will be given to the frog by Jim Smiley to boost his performance so that he can bet on him and always win. Anabolic steroids are a synthetic version of the male hormone testosterone and can be used to enhance a person’s performance. They are used to treat to treat hormone problems in men, though using them to boost performance is illegal and can cause damage to the body. Anabolic steroids affect the skeletal muscles by activating cells to produce more protein to build more muscle cells. They also inhibit glucocorticoids, which decreases the time your muscles need...
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...Does Steroids Provide An Unfair Advantage In Baseball or Does It Even The Playing Field? Baseball has been an American pastime for centuries and will be for centuries to come. Adults have been taking their children to baseball games since the Major Leagues first came about in the late 1800s. From the Philadelphia Phillies' great Astrodome to their current Citizens Bank Park or the Atlanta Braves' Fulton County Stadium to their more modern Turner Field baseball has been loved in America. Although the game is as old as it is, baseball has not changed even though the players continue to get better and better. Many fans first take is the use of steroids in baseball. But did steroids really help Barry Bonds become home run king? Because Hank Aaron had the record generations before and he reportedly never injected steroids. Every year it seems like a new player gets brought into the league that is going to be faster, stronger, and an overall better player; except the ones that have the records broken that is. Although steroids are supposed to make athletes bigger, faster, and stronger,; are steroids really making athlete's statistics better or simply bridging the gap between decent athletes and great ones? There are many aspects in hitting a baseball that coaches teach athletes at a young age. Seeing the ball well, swinging with your hips and not just your arms, being disciplined and not swinging at a ball out of the strike zone, these are all examples of what it takes to be a good...
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...The 12 Surprising Facts about Testosterone in Both Men and Women One of the most important hormones found in a human's body is testosterone. This word is often associated with the male sex though it is also present in women. When people read or hear about this word, the first thing that comes into their minds is a picture of a man or an aggressive behavior. Yes you can see a connection between the two. However, this is just one of the many things that truly describe testosterone. These things are not only evident in males but in the female sex as well. What is testosterone by the way? It is the hormone responsible for the development of the male secondary sex characteristics. This performs many other functions which also include those in women. One significant function of this hormone in women is it contributes in maintaining the sex drive. Many other processes in the body of females involve this hormone and its low or high level affects such processes. In males, the description of this hormone has been fully established. Many researches took place in order to describe this hormone better and how it affects the processes in the body of males. Since most studies about this hormone revolved around males, this hormone attached itself to the male sex for a long time. However, there are still mysteries that surround this hormone that not all individuals know. Now you can learn more about this hormone with the help of this list about the 12 surprising facts about testosterone in...
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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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