A Brief History of Body Building
One might think that bodybuilding is a fairly recent phenomenon that began in the twentieth century or so but it actually is not. Building up your body hails back to the Ancient Greek times when athletes first trained to compete in the Olympics before the old gods.
However, bodybuilding as we know it today, would become a slow building trend as we approached the twentieth century. Even in the early days of the Victorian era, body building was a show of sport and entertainment.
Today; The Bodybuilding Problem
Of course, today it is an entertaining means of exercise, but it’s also taken seriously in some circles. Perhaps one’s first associated bodybuilder is the renown actor, ex-bodybuilder and former California governor; Arnold Schwarzenegger.
However, regardless of whether or not the Austrian-born actor is your ideal image of bodybuilding is irrelevant at the moment. The issue of the day is if bodybuilding supplements are an emergent new eating disorder.
The issue came up at the American Psychological Association (APA) Convention in Toronto, and lasts from the 6th until today. There the study presented to the audience members and researchers, which was released later in a press release by the APA.
Mounting Concern about Bodybuilding Supplements
In the APA press release, the issue of growing concern regards whether body building supplements may start replacing actual meals in order to bulk up. This concern about the body building supplements gathered around 200 study participants in order to see how pressing this issue is.
A brief abstract on the study can be found here. From information gathered in the study, researchers found that the forty percent of participants noted that their use of body building supplements increased over time while another twenty-two percent said they ended up replacing meals with body building supplements.
It was also noted that some of them had been advised by doctors to cut back on the use of bodybuilding supplements because of serious health issues. So, what the study has found is that bodybuilding supplements emerging as a new eating disorder is not caused by any one misconception of psychological transference or repression; but is in fact due to a variety of disparate factors which must be researched by their respective sciences.
BUILD YOUR BODY, BUT STAY HYDRATED, SISTER
Is Bodybuilding Supplement the New Eating Disorder
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