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show first aired September 24, 2009
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If you’re a sports fans this time of year is like hitting the jackpot. The baseball playoffs are about to begin, the college and pro football seasons are underway and basketball and hockey are gearing up for their new campaigns. But, for the past decade or so, the cloud of performance enhancing drugs has taken the shine off some of our heroes. On this week’s Health Show, we’ll talk to the chief science officer of the US Anti-Doping Agency about the advances made in catching the cheaters. We’ll also learn how some young people in run down areas of the US have such a pessimistic view of life that they take serious risks to their health and safety. And an author talks about the problem of young girls cutting themselves in her new book.
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NO P.E.D'S, PLEASE
The fight against performance enhancing drugs in sports has been going on for decades...long before there were laboratory testing methods to detect the drugs. But after a major doping scandal rocked the Tour De France in 1998, organizers of the event sounded a call for help. In 1999,The International Olympic Committee convened a World Conference on Doping, bringing together all parties involved in the fight against PEDs. That led to the formation later that year of WADA...the World Anti Doping Agency. Funded by the IOC and the various participating governments, WADA is now 10 years old and their chemists are constantly on the look out for new, harder to detect steroids and performance enhancing substances. Here to talk about that from in side the lab is Dr. Larry Bowers, the Chief Science Officer for USADA...the US Anti-Doping Agency. Dr. Bowers served as an independent observer for WADA at the 2000 Olympics at Sydney and he wrote an article on the anti-doping agency in the August issue of the journal Clinical Chemistry.
For more educational information on the effects of Steriods and other performance enhancing drugs, go HERE and HERE.
Pessimistic Teens Risk HIV
A new study shows that teens who think they'll die young are seven times more likely to contract HIV. Studies have shown that, unlike adults, many teenagers greatly overestimate their risk of dying in the near future. But what does that fatalistic attitude mean for the actual health of those teens? Youth Radio’s Ankitha Bharadwaj reports.
Willow - A Book With A Cutting Plot
Some young people express their fears in another way. In her latest book, author Julia Hoban has taken on a growing problem for many young women - cutting. “Willow” is the story of a bright, troubled girl who handles her emotional pain by cutting her own skin. Hoban says the book is proving to be an invaluable resource for parents who don't know how to open the discussion. She spoke with The Health Show’s Susan Barnett
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