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Another supplement sh!t storm looming on the horizon?

  • 04-03-2013 12:35am
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    hatrickpatrick
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    http://www.newstalk.ie/Its-a-form-of-child-abuse--The-dangers-of-teenage-supplement-and-steroid-abuse

    http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/junior-cup-kids-have-necks-on-them-like-adults-due-to-supplements-says-sports-doctor-584563.html

    Don't want to be sensationalist, but this is worryingly reminiscent of the kind of chatter that went on during 2007 and 2008, in the months leading up to the Vit B12 hysteria and the subsequent media fuelled bans on BSN, Universal and other commonly used products. Gist of the articles for those who can't read them is that schools rugby players are taking protein, creatine and other supplements which are (a) causing them to develop muscles too big for their young skeletons, and (b), as the doctor quoted puts it, frequently contaminated with steroids in order to make them more popular.
    "They certainly are taking creatine and supplements and the problem with these supplements is that up to twenty or thirty per cent of them, and these are throughout the world, are contaminated by steroids to give the product a competitive advantage"

    A similar Irish Times article talks about how drug testing in schools is years away due to legal issues, and I can't help wondering if the Irish authorities will follow their usual bumbling "if it's remotely problematic, issue blanket bans" approach like they do with pretty much everything else in this country. Can't test for it, so let's just close down every supp shop in the country instead. They've done the same for fireworks, head shops, and are considering completely banning remote access to voicemail as a "solution" to the phone hacking problem.

    Again I don't want to be sensationalist and this could of course amount to nothing, but I always feel when legal supplements start coming under the media spotlight like this, one might want to batten down the hatches. Last time this happen we ended up with a protracted ban on any supplement which exceeded Vitamin B12 RDA. Reckon at the very least I'll pick up some extra animal pump anyway just in case.

    Seriously though, I mean at the absolute very least you'd think they could impose some sort of age limit or something like that? The Irish response to this story five years ago was "pull pretty much everything off the shelves for absolutely everyone because there's a chance some kids might be taking too much B12 and hastening the apocalypse".

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the argument about muscle growth exceeding skeletal capacity due to creatine also trotted out in the 2008 scare and thoroughly discredited?

    As a bonus, take a look at the pic the Examiner have chosen for the article:

    pillManTakingPill_large.jpg

    Image filename is "pillManTakingPill_large.jpg"

    What's that you say? They have an agenda? Perish the thought, how could you possibly make such an appalling accusation?!


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