Aerobics and Weight Training As most of you already know, fitness is usually measured by the untrained eye on the basis of how a person looks and their muscle definition. For anyone it's hard to get muscle definition until you lose weight, and that might be hard enough, more so for women th...

Anabolic steroids is the familiar name for synthetic substances related to the male sex hormone androgen. Anabolic steroids promote the growth of skeletal muscle and the development of male sexual characteristics, and have other effects as well. Anabolic steroids were first developed in th...

As the school bus rumbled past me, an angry high school student yelled obscenities at me from his open window. I was standing in front of a high school at 7 a.m. with an active pro-life family, holding posters showing aborted fetuses and signs saying, "Abortion Kills Children." The family ...

Anorexia is a condition that affects every part of you, your body, and your mind. In the world that we live in, where on every magazine cover, every tv show, and even in your home room, you see beautiful, skinny girls that seem to have everything they want. They seem to be popular, always happy, a...

Gabe Mackin once asked 100 athletes, "Would they take a special pill that would guarantee a gold medal in the Olympics, but it would kill them within a year?" Out of the 100 athletes, more than half of them said yes (Steroids . . . Attitude). Anabolic Steroids are a growing probl...

A girl at 18 wakes in the morning and hops out of bed straight onto a pair of scales located next to her bed. The needle moves slightly up and she burns inside, fat fat fat! She looks into the full-length mirror; it's her worst enemy. The way she looked in it made her feel like dying. Even when...

Bulimia vs.. Anorexia Bulimia and Anorexia, two of the most common eating disorders. These two eating disorders target young adolescent girls. Girls with these eating disorders become so preoccupied with there weight and appearance that they fo...

Eating Disorders A disorder is an upset of normal functions. This being the case, an eating disorder is when normal eating habits or functions become abnormal and unhealthy. We will be discussing two of the three major eating disorders: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa. Both are extremely unhe...