While most people readily agree that steroids are dangerous and should be avoided by athletes competing in varsity sports, not everyone feels the same way about all the other seemingly safe performance enhancing supplements on store shelves today – especially energy drinks. In fact, did you know that while kids nationwide consume energy drinks (i.e. Red Bull) on a daily basis, these very same drinks are now being banned from interscholastic athletics in some states? Just this fall Virginia passed a vote nullifying their usage , and it is expected many more states will soon follow. Prior to hearing this news, did you ever think Red Bull would be on the same list of banned products as steroids?
Read the rest of Dr. Stankovich’s post for The Examiner here
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