Your Child and Steriods

I think I am almost steroided out at this point, except that this topic is so very important we have to keep awareness on this important topic for our developing youth athlete.

Track Mom

(Guest post from CJ) 

This Sports Illustrated article demonstrates why society must respond to steroid use by sports figures:

“When former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell presented his much anticipated report last month that chronicled the widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball, he encouraged the discussion to be broadened beyond MVPs and Cy Young Award winners. In particular he warned about what he called “the most disturbing part of my research”: the prevalence of steroids in youth sports. “Several hundred thousand young Americans are using steroids; it’s an alarming figure,” Mitchell told SI the day after he issued his report. “At that age, they’re subject to hormonal change, and the risk to them - both physical and psychological - is significantly greater than it is for mature adults.”

Had Mitchell wanted an embodiment of that risk, he needed to look no further than Corey Gahan. With his promising in-line skating career now reduced to videos and a scrapbook, and his estranged father serving a six-year sentence in a federal prison - believed to be the first parent convicted of providing steroids to his own child - Corey, now 18, represents a chilling cautionary tale of what can happen when performance-enhancing drugs poison youth sports.”

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1. What Steriods Do to You
2. Reaction To IHSH’s Decision To Implement Drug Testing
3. Nutrition For Sports Performance…Your Child’s Winning Edge
4. Marion Jones …A Hard Lesson To Learn
5. Balancing Your Youth Athletes Diet