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Research Finds Bodybuilders With Similar Body Image Concerns, Whether or Not They Use Steroids

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

When it comes to characteristics associated with muscle dysmorphia, there is no difference between bodybuilders who use steroids and those who do not, a University of Arkansas researcher found.





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Bodybuilding with steroids damages kidneys

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Athletes who use anabolic steroids may gain muscle mass and strength, but they can also destroy their kidney function, according to a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 42nd Annual Meeting and Scientific ...


Bodybuilders have distorted body image

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created Jun 16, 2006 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Welsh researchers who studied "gym rats" say many of those who use steroids seem to suffer from body image problems similar to those of anorexics.


Making metabolism more inefficient can reduce obesity

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 03, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

In a discovery that counters prevailing thought, a study in mice has found that inactivating a pair of key genes involved in "fat-burning" can actually increase energy expenditure and help lower diet-induced obesity. These ...


Moderate amounts of protein per meal found best for building muscle

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

For thousands of years, people have believed that eating large amounts of protein made it easier to build bigger, stronger muscles. Take Milo of Croton, the winner of five consecutive Olympic wrestling championships in the ...


Manthropology: The Science of the Inadequate Modern Male

Modern men are wimps, according to new book

Biology / Evolution

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (40) | comments 40

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new book claims even modern athletes could not run as fast, jump as high, or have been nearly as strong as our predecessors.


Shooter's online rants were like trees in forest (AP)

Shooter's online rants were like trees in forest

Technology / Internet

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- In hindsight, it seems so obvious. We look back at the creepy online ramblings of a tortured soul like George Sodini and realize we should have known all along of the horrors to come.



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