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ahahaha man this stuff cracks me up, whats even funnier is my dad thinks its true.
HA! That’s hilarious Prof. X!
For some reason I doubt this is even close to true. Seeing as how I work at a dance studio and see about 300 high school girls everyday and they all think my Grow! is powdered steroids. Not to mention the fact that they think that if the even look at a 5lb dumbell it will turn them into a muscular freak. I’ll ask some of them if they are stacking DECA and D-Bol.
Well at least I know who to ask for gear.
I am curious if the all of the 7% actually tried real anabolics or simply something they thought was a steroid.
analog_kid thats what I told my parents. EVERY girl just about wants to be SKINNY. Every typical girl anyway.
I’m happy to be aware of this article / survey. Now if I decide to juice I now know the local elementary school should be a good source.
It’s about time those fat assed kids did something about their physiques. Never too early to start and all that.
Not that I think many kids are doing actual steroids or anything. It’s a sensationalist story to try and sell copy.
First, like many of you have already posted, How did these youngsters get gear?
Second, who told them it was gear? This would stem from experiences I’ve heard from girlfriends of times where they used to rip off their mothers’ sugar pills from their birth control packets and sell them to each other in high school as ways to get rid of acne and lose weight. Does this sound familiar? This was back in the 80s and 90s so I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the same thing- placebo with rumor effect.
Third, Does anyone really believe everything they see and hear? This scare report will prove just how stupid the general western world really is.
“Talking about supplements and steroids needs to start in the third grade,” Small said. “If you wait till ninth grade, it’s too late.”
Bwahahahaha…That’s right, by ninth grade your little girl will be a hulking steroid using she-man with a penis bigger than yours if you don’t intervene RIGHT NOW.
[quote]cap’nsalty wrote:
“Talking about supplements and steroids needs to start in the third grade,” Small said. “If you wait till ninth grade, it’s too late.”
Bwahahahaha…That’s right, by ninth grade your little girl will be a hulking steroid using she-man with a penis bigger than yours if you don’t intervene RIGHT NOW.[/quote]
ROTLLMMFAO!!!
Love it!
This is a little off topic but still on the same general subject. The other day I was on an airplane and the guy next to me was reading a Frank Robinson interview in US News. I caught a glimpse of the last question and it was
[i]US News: With the increase of steroids in the public light, do you think that you’ll start monitoring your players?
Robinson: No, thats not my job. My job is to win ball games.[/i]
I thought it was pretty badass of him to say that.
By the way, Prof X, that was the funniest shit I’ve seen in a while.
Here’s a nice analysis on this from Lou Schuler:
" An alarming number of American girls, some as young as 9, are using bodybuilding steroids – not necessarily to get an edge on the playing field, but to get the toned, sculpted look of models and movie stars, experts say. …
Overall, up to about 5 percent of high school girls and 7 percent of middle-school girls admit trying anabolic steroids at least once, with use of rising steadily since 1991, various government and university studies have shown.
Researchers say that most girls are using steroids to get bigger and stronger on the playing field, and they attribute some of the increase in steroid use to girls' rising participation in sports. But plenty of other girls are using steroids to give themselves a slightly muscular look, they say.
"With young women, you see them using it more as a weight-control and body-fat-reduction" method, said Jeff Hoerger, who runs the staff counseling program at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Seven percent of girls in middle school have used steroids? Why is my bullshit detector quivering?
This 1998 study from Pediatrics pegs the rate of use among adolescent females at 2.8 percent.
This 2002 study puts the rate at 2.9 percent, and contains this interesting passage in its abstract:
In males, steroid use was associated with poorer self-esteem and higher rates of depressed mood and attempted suicide, poorer knowledge and attitudes about health, greater participation in sports that emphasize weight and shape, greater parental concern about weight, and higher rates of disordered eating and substance use. Among females, steroid use was less consistent in its associations with other variables, although overall, a similar pattern of results emerged.
I’m not a scientist, but I take the passage I bold-faced to mean, “We don’t really know what the fuck is going on with those girls.”
If anyone knows where the 7 percent figure comes from, please share. I just spent a half-hour on PubMed, Google, and various government websites, and couldn’t find any number higher than the ones I cited."
The local paper is citing this study in their scare stories now. We all agree that kids should not be using steroids, but trumping up the problem is just frustrating.