Anabolic steroids found in warehouse of coach
Greece’s National Organisation of Medicines said anabolic steroids have been discovered by Greek medical chiefs at a warehouse used by the coach of disgraced sprinters Kostas Kederis and Ekaterina Thanou.
“The supplements included materials that do not have a distribution license,” read a statement from the agency.
From Guardian.co.uk:
The agency, which is known as EOF, also revealed [...]
Session on healthy choices conducted
More than half a million high school athletes use performance enhancing drugs or supplements, each year, to try to get an edge on the competition, which is an undeniable fact in the books of most coaches.
“It’s a problem across the board…if not steroids, it’s the supplements (you can buy at health food stores) or the [...]
Food Supplements blamed by tainted athlete
The disgraced athlete involved in the latest doping scandal, Aswini Akkunji, thinks the consumption of food supplements supplied to her and other athletes by athletics coach, Yuri Ogorodnik, would have been the reason for the failed dope test.
Akkunji claimed innocence as far as consumption of performance enhancing drugs is concerned.
From Daijiworld.com:
“Stock of food supplements in [...]
Strict vigil at NIS
The ongoing national training camp at the National Institute of Sport based in Patiala is under strict vigilance after the doping scandal in which eight of India’s top track and field athletes were tested for banned steroids.
Coaches at the NIS have handed over a list of food supplements that are being taken by [...]
Effects of supplements among war zone troops
After alcohol, pornography, and smoking, dietary supplements may be the next possible target of forbidden vices for deployed troops.
There is enough evidence for suggesting that even the legal OTC forms of such supplements can lead to unconsciousness, heart palpitations, and death among troops, particularly those in desert climate conditions like Afghanistan, as per [...]
Focus on dietary supplements and war zone troops
The military’s list of forbidden vices for deployed troops may target dietary supplements used by weight lifters to increase muscle mass.
It was remarked by Col. Erin Edgar, a physician who commanded the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad in 2006 and 2007 that 20 percent of 2,332 cases of soldiers who complain [...]
Steroids Found On Most Sports-Supplements
Recent studies exposed that most Americans, especially teenagers who use steroids continuously increase for the past two decades. This rapid growth of the supplement industry was believed to have resulted from the deceitful marketing strategies of supplement manufacturers.
According to the report of David Epstein and George Dohrmann, 25 percent of the 58 sports supplements tested [...]