What is more Dangerous, Anabolic Steroids or Football?
Below is a comparison of the two risks. I realize that in football, the two risks are not always separate (the athletes doing the colliding may both be on steroids), but for the purposes of this comparison, lets do our best to keep the two separate. Dangers of Steroids Articles abound in the mass media on the life-threatening risks of anabolic steroids: cancer, heart disease, stroke, and so on. What is missing are peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals to support the claims. Quick: name an athlete who died, or was diagnosed, with steroid-related cancer, heart disease, or stroke. Cases are so hard to find that the prohibitionists have to make them up. So Lyle Alzado, the NFL all-star, is presented on the front page of the New York Times and the cover of Sports Illustrated because of an alleged steroid-related brain tumor. However, although steroids have been known to cause liver cancer, there is no published evidence that anabolic steroids cause either brain cancer or the specifi
