According to HealthDay (6/25, Gordon), “22% of young men and 5% of young women turn to potentially dangerous methods to ‘bulk up,’” research indicates. Such “unhealthy methods – dubbed ‘disordered eating behaviors’ – include eating to gain weight and using supplements or anabolic steroids to increase muscle or body size.” Included in the study were “nearly 15,000 young people across the” US who “were first interviewed when they were 11 to 18 years old, and again when they were between 18 and 24.” The findings were published online June 20 in the International Journal of Eating Disorders.
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— “Many Young Men Putting Health at Risk to Bulk Up, “Serena Gordon, HealthDay, June 25, 2019