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    to make individuals more willing to do things they would not usually do. Athletes can perform exercises and drills to improve their skill and personal health. Other athletes cheat by using steroids and other performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) to improve their game with little to no effort. The use of steroids can boost your performance and statistics but should not be allowed at any level of baseball including majors, minors, college, and high school. On August 13, 2002 a drug program was…

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    Cholesterol and Steroids can be important to organisms. For example. Cholesterol helps maintain the fluidity of cell membrane and cell membrane are the inside wall of our cells which is important. Cholesterol helps separate the phospholipids so that the fatty acid chains can’t come together and crystallize. Which means cholesterol helps prevent extremes[whether too fluid, or too firm] in the inside of the consistency of the cell membrane. Cholesterol may be good but also it can be…

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    Steroid use has both pros and cons. Some pros of steroid use is that they are used for medication. The prescribed drug helps people who are ill. The steroids help decrease the swelling and they are prescribed to people with cancer and other illnesses. If people did not get prescribed steroids. their illness would probably get worse and they would eventually die. Steroids have many negative effects as well. If steroids are abused by people, the people can get very sick. Steroids are not meant to…

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    performance-enhancing drug is called steroids, and it is banned from almost all professional sporting events. Although there are health risks, steroids should be given to professional athletes because it helps the healing process which brings the players back quicker, steroids make the sport more interesting due to the increased strength and speed of the athletes, and steroids would bring in more money because people are more…

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    History of steroids in bodybuilding The use of steroids, and performance enhancing drugs in general, in worldwide sport is usually dated back to a certain John Bosley Ziegler, a physician for the United States weightlifting team. Meeting his Russian equivalent, they discussed diets and Ziegler was told that the Russian team were being given testosterone. Ziegler experimented himself, and although finding some success with anabolic steroids, he was unsuccessful in his attempts to discover a…

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    Steroid use for high school sports can have many negative affects on your body, that people don’t realize. The human body reacts differently to different things. People take steroids to help their performance in sports. They may also take them to enlarge their muscles. What they don’t know is that it has more than just positive effects. They are too caught up in their appearance to even realize all of the side effects it can put out. Males are proven to take most of the blame for the use of…

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    “Steroids, sometimes referred to as "roids" or "juice" are the same as, or similar to, certain hormones in the body. The body produces steroids naturally to support such functions as fighting stress and promoting growth and development. But some people use steroid pills, gels, creams, or injections because they think steroids can improve their sports performance or the way they look.” One should not use steroids in professional sports, because young people look up to this professionals as role…

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    to constantly about the harmful effects of marijuana, cocaine, meth, and alcohol, but throughout my years of education, I have never once been spoken too about the negative effects of steroid use and abuse. Anabolic steroids are one of the most misconceived and misunderstood drugs in human history. Anabolic steroids are extremely dangerous for young men and women to use. They also create an unfair playing field for those athletes who want to compete but don’t want to risk their future health by…

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    started what is known as the “Steroid Era”. This era took over players all over the world and and…

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    MLB Steroids Use People that have used Steroids in MLB should not get in the Hall of Fame. People like Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Ryan Franklin,Ryan Braun, and more have used Steroids. In 2013 there were 12 people that were caught with Steroids Ryan Braun, Antonio Bastardo, Everth Cabrera, Francisco Cervelli, Nelson Cruz, Fautino De Los Santos, Sergio Escalona, Fernando Martinez, Jesus Montero, Jordan Norberto, Jhonny Peralta, Alex Rodriguez, Jordany Valdespin and, Miguel Tejada. There…

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