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...tumors, high blood pressure, fertility problems, hypertension, increased hostility and aggression and cardiovascular diseases. Even more prevalent than steroid use is amphetamine use, which players take to stay energized and alert during night games. Possible side effects of this drug include an increased heart rate and blood pressure, restlessness, weight loss and heart failure. Ephedra, which has similar effects to amphetamines but is sold over-the-counter, can also be dangerous when taken before exercise, and was linked to the death of Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler earlier this year. One Orioles team doctor said, “It makes...
...main coronary arteries or the smaller vessels--behave differently in women. Unlike men, women tend to distribute all the "garbage" associated with atherosclerosis--such as saturated fat and oxidized waste products--more evenly throughout the arteries. The process is analogous to the way men and women gain weight, says Dr. Noel Bairey Merz of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. "When men get fat, it all goes to their belly," she says. "When women get fat, they tend to get fat all over--fat at the ankles, fat in the sides, fat in the upper arms." So although...
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DIED. ROBERT ATKINS, 72, influential, hackle-raising weight-loss guru; of severe head injuries from a fall on an icy sidewalk on April 8; in New York City. He bucked convention in his 1972 best seller Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, which advised dieters to trash the fruit salad in favor of high-protein, high-fat goodies like bacon cheeseburgers and butter, arguing that without carbohydrates to burn, the body would burn its own fat. Many of the 30 million who have tried the diet swear by it. But his regimen rankled mainstream medical groups, which called it extreme and said...
...with the crew?young guys from the Philippines, Maldives and Sri Lanka, who needed heavy doses of protein to fuel their labor. When I felt a push against the waistline of my pants, I started visiting the ship's little workout room for stationary cycling and pulling on the weight machines...