> Where does the societal harm from anabolic steroids come from?
I think the argument for this would be similar to the argument for using models with less atypical body types. If all the guys I saw on TV when I was a kid were super jacked, I'd probably feel more pressure to be that way and possibly use anabolic steroids to get there.
Considering that we have an obesity epidemic, I wonder if more jacked people on TV might actually do us some good.
Step one, well before dosing up, is diet and exercise. Anyone wishing to imitate the muscleheads on TV would have to go through that distinctly self-improving step first. I suspect that anyone who continues on to use steroids after that would be well offset by all those who dropped out before reaching the point where self-harm becomes involved.
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> Where does the societal harm from anabolic steroids come from?
I think the argument for this would be similar to the argument for using models with less atypical body types. If all the guys I saw on TV when I was a kid were super jacked, I'd probably feel more pressure to be that way and possibly use anabolic steroids to get there.
Considering that we have an obesity epidemic, I wonder if more jacked people on TV might actually do us some good.
Step one, well before dosing up, is diet and exercise. Anyone wishing to imitate the muscleheads on TV would have to go through that distinctly self-improving step first. I suspect that anyone who continues on to use steroids after that would be well offset by all those who dropped out before reaching the point where self-harm becomes involved.