A new study shows young Canadians are using performance-enhancing drugs and substances to increase muscle mass and athleticism, which can cause adverse mental and physical health effects.
The use of legal performance-enhancing drugs and substances is having adverse mental and sometimes physical health effects on young people in Canada, a new study shows.side effects on young people include mental health issues like eating disorders and physical side effects like hospitalizationIn some instances, the legal appearance- and performance-enhancing drugs have been contaminated with stimulants or are mislabelled, the study reads, which can cause further adverse effects.
Ganson says because of the concentrated nature of the product, people can consume more protein than if they ate protein-rich foods like chicken. Some effects of muscle-building and weight-loss supplements include "problematic alcohol behaviours, such as binge-drinking, future use of anabolic-androgenic steroids, criminal offending, intimate partner violence, sexual risk behaviours, muscle dysmorphia and eating disorder symptoms, disability, and death," the study reads.
The usage of all APEDs is "significantly higher" for men and boys compared to women or transgender/non-conforming gender participants, with the exception of water pills and probiotics, which women and girls used more. Similar to tobacco and alcohol, Ganson suggests these products should also be subjected to additional taxes to deter younger Canadians from taking the products.
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