“You just don’t put things in your body willy-nilly.’’
You are DAMN RIGHT you don't!
I'm not taking the paper too seriously here, and this is why:
"NASCAR coverage was also expanded on the cable channel New England Sports Network, which is owned by New England Sports Ventures, the parent company of the Red Sox and Fenway Sports Group. The New York Times Co., which owns The Boston Globe, holds a 17 percent stake in New England Sports Ventures."
Yeah, TELL ME AGAIN about GLOBAL WARMING and the ENVIRONMENT!!
Also related: Football, dogfighting, and brain damage
YOUR KIDS are AT RISK so you can enjoy Friday night football under the lights (sure was a COLD ONE last night, huh, Bay Stater?)!!
Look on the bright side; it will get the kid ready to serve the empire's occupations.
"Hidden hazards in bodybuilding products; FDA says some supplements have illegal steroids" by Megan Woolhouse, Globe Staff | October 17, 2009
.... While much attention has been paid to steroid use among professional athletes, teenagers are often drawn to sports performance products that advertise similarly dramatic results. There are hundreds of over-the-counter items available locally....
Steroid use has been associated with acute liver injury, heart failure, and side effects such as male infertility, rage, and stunted growth in children.
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While drug makers must demonstrate that a treatment is safe and effective before the FDA approves it for sale, the nutritional supplement industry is largely self-regulating - the FDA can act only if it receives reports of serious health problems.
Like the FDA is looking out for your health!
By now everyone knows THEY WORK for the CORPORATIONS!
This is an attempt to get MORE REGULATIONS and GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT over a COMPETITOR of the "health" corporations so that you take ONLY THEIR NOXIOUS POTIONS and PILLS!
In Massachusetts, the Department of Education does not mandate steroid testing in schools, nor does it track whether local athletic programs require such tests. The state Department of Public Health does not keep a record of complaints about steroid use in schools.
For athletes, the best source of information about performance enhancers may be coaches - the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association requires them to complete an eight-hour training session on steroids and nutritional supplements.
But Barry Haley, the association’s president, said students often appeal to a higher authority. “They tell their parents, ‘They sell it in stores, so it’s got to be fine,’ ’’ Haley said.
And even discerning parents may have a difficult time sorting out risky supplements from benign ones. The shelves of such stores as GNC and The Vitamin Shoppe are lined with pills and powders with screaming come-ons....
Yeah, I see those all thime as the pharmaceuticals push their poisons on the TV (click).
I mean, WHAT is MORE of a COME ON than VIAGRA during the BALL GAMES!?
Safety questions about bodybuilding supplements have led to the emergence of at-home steroid tests aimed at parents and schools. Phamatech Inc., based in San Diego, began marketing its At Home Steroid Test in the Boston area recently. Phamatech said the $79.99 kit requires a urine sample, which must be sent to its lab for testing.
And CUI BONO, 'eh?
Are the PHARMACEUTICALS behind THEM, TOO?!!!!
It says the test can identify the “11 most commonly abused steroids’’ with 99 percent accuracy within five to seven days. (The FDA said it has not tested the company’s assertions.)
Why not MAKE STEROIDS ILLEGAL like that horror of horrors, POT?!!!
UriTox LLC, an Ohio-based company, began selling a similar steroid test kit, SteroidConfirm, online in 2008. Spokesman Mike Bailey said schools have been its best customers. Bailey declined to identify customers but said the company has sold 321 test kits in Greater Boston this year.
So SOMEONE FOUND a MARKET and is MAKING MONEY!!!
Btw, WHERE do SCHOOLS get their $$$, taxpayers?
Gary Wadler, a sports physician at the New York University School of Medicine who has studied nutritional supplements, said steroid tests for student athletes won’t solve the problem. He supports increased federal oversight of the supplement industry but also sees a need for more education.
Didn't I MENTION THAT ABOVE?
The AGENDA-PUSHING PURPOSE of this piece?
“The best option is to make parents aware, coaches aware, and the schools aware,’’ Wadler said. “You just don’t put things in your body willy-nilly.’’
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U.S. Marshals For Fox Sports
Walpole Coach Does Wind Sprints to Escape Rape Charge
Coach Runs Out-of-Bounds
Dracut Quarterback Sacked
Ya Gotta Love Sports!
Think steroids played a role?
Time to BAN FOOTBALL, sports fans, SORRY!!!!!!
We can find BETTER THINGS TO DO with ALL THAT $$$$!!!!!
