Posted on 01/20/2004 8:45:42 PM PST by JohnHuang2
WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush, former part-owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, urged those in professional sports on Tuesday to end steroid use because it sends the wrong message to American children.
Bush said some professional athletes were not "setting much of an example" for young people by using performance-enhancing drugs such as steroids that can build muscle and stamina but may have dangerous side effects.
"The use of performance-enhancing drugs like steroids in baseball, football, and other sports is dangerous, and it sends the wrong message that there are shortcuts to accomplishment, and that performance is more important than character," Bush said in his annual State of the Union Address.
"So tonight, I call on team owners, union representatives, coaches and players to take the lead, to send the right signal, to get tough, and to get rid of steroids now."
A longtime sports fan who rattles off baseball statistics like an expert, Bush was managing general partner of the Rangers in the 1990s before running for president.
Performance-enhancing drugs like steroids are banned in most sports although enforcement of the rules varies. Major League Baseball only recently began its own program to eliminate steroids from the baseball diamond.
Several NFL players have recently tested positive for a new designer steroid and American track athletes and baseball stars have given evidence to a San Francisco grand jury investigating a California lab suspected of producing the steroid.
The World Anti-Doping Agency late last year bitterly attacked baseball and NFL authorities for not cracking down harder on drug cheats, and suggested the International Olympic Committee consider imposing sanctions on U.S. sports in a bid to make the White House act.
01/20/04 23:38 ET
Don't drink.
pop a couple of Tylenol PM
Don't take pills to fall asleep.
have some coffee
Ended my coffee addiction awhile ago, replaced it with water.
I hope for your sake that your nick is a metaphor.
And how do you propose to do that? Some government mandate?
LOL! An issue that is on all of our minds.....Sheeesh!
I don't know if you are being a pinhead and just arguing semantics about my use of the term "burns," or are just choosing to remain ignorant to a fact proven in thousands of studies and generally accepted by anybody with two brain cells to look at known facts.
No moralizing here about whether it is the best way to bo burn fat for any particular individual or not as you have done - just telling a joke. Get off it your high horse.
Those aren't facts; most of those studies are paid for by Metabolite and the knock-offs who pimp ephedrine.
You've just been suckered b/c you can't see through the big pharm strategy - which is to convince sheep like you that that any herb being sold is being pimped. Everything you buy and approve of has been "pimped," my friend. Your use of the word doesn't change reality, cept in your own simplistic rationalization of what is "good" and what is "bad."
To whit:
Research Department of Human Nutrition, RVA University, Copenhagen, Denmark. ast@kvl.dk
.....This is the background for pharmacologic stimulation of energy expenditure as a tool to improve the results of obesity management. Targets are the leptin receptors, the sympathetic nervous system and its peripheral beta-adrenoceptors, selective thyroid hormone derivatives, and stimulation of the mitochondrial uncoupling proteins. Currently available compounds such as recombinant leptin, ephedrine/caffeine, and sibutramine possess thermogenic properties owing to their activation of the sympathoadrenal system. Compounds acting selectively on the human beta3-adrenoceptor are still promising tools to achieve a sustained stimulation of lipolysis and energy expenditure, and several are in the pipeline.
Heh.. one that made it through the "pipeline" and that has been in use for thousands of years was just removed. Just in time I imagine. Can't wait to see what the big pharms come out with next - after their incredible record of success and safety in this field and all. /sarcasm
Quick, issue another snappy one-liner to demonstrate further your immaturity and ignorance. Why am I responding to a baiting troll? Just b/c you have been around awhile sinkspur doesn't mean you aren't trolling.
Tried Xenadrine? There's another phony compound that has "studies" behind it.
How about Creatine? Another highly-touted, extremely expensive waste of money.
I've read about all of them, as I lift weights, seriously.
None of 'em work, except anabolic steroids, and I'm not going anywhere near those.
Me neither. Nor will I get "sucked in" by the next "thermongenic pill." No need for it. I would have serious doubts about the next one to come along and I don't fall for fake studies. I'm too intelligent for that.
You however have obviously not learned how to discern real science form marketing hype studies. To state that "ephedrine doesn't work" is sheer ignorance.
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