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"Beauty terror" driving young men to abuse steroids
[SIZE=-1]Times Online, UK [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Now, drug specialists are reporting an alarming rise in the number of body-concious young men who are turning to the illegal use of anabolic steroids to improve their physique. Meanwhile, the number of men seeking breast reduction surgery to correct so-called man boobs is expected to hit a record high in a new report to be released on Monday. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]They are the ugly symptoms of a new beauty terror gripping Western society, argues Susie Orbach, the writer whose theories on women and food made her a feminist icon 30 years ago. In an interview with The Times Magazine, the author of Fat is a Feminist Issue warns that, far from being a condition affecting only a few, as it did when she first wrote about it, body distress is now universal. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]New figures from the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons are expected to show that the number of men opting for breast-reduction procedures last year rose by nearly half. The figure has already increased tenfold from only 22 operations in 2003, to 224 in 2007. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Les Iverson, the chairman of the technical committee of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, told a meeting late last year: There is a much wider use in the community of anabolic steroids by young men for cosmetic reasons and by security guards who feel the need to be big and strong to do their job. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Latest estimates from the British Crime Survey suggest that 179,000 people aged 16-59 have used anabolic steroids but Professor Iverson told the committee that the figure might be more than 200,000. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Mike Linnell, of the Lifeline drugs charity in Manchester, said that needle-exchange projects are reporting rising numbers of men injecting steroids for cosmetic reasons. What we have seen over the last two years is a growth in people who are not drug-users in the traditional sense. They are coming in because they used anabolic steroids because they wanted to look good. It is all about image, about looking good. This is now right across the board. [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]...[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]Times Online, UK [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Now, drug specialists are reporting an alarming rise in the number of body-concious young men who are turning to the illegal use of anabolic steroids to improve their physique. Meanwhile, the number of men seeking breast reduction surgery to correct so-called man boobs is expected to hit a record high in a new report to be released on Monday. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]They are the ugly symptoms of a new beauty terror gripping Western society, argues Susie Orbach, the writer whose theories on women and food made her a feminist icon 30 years ago. In an interview with The Times Magazine, the author of Fat is a Feminist Issue warns that, far from being a condition affecting only a few, as it did when she first wrote about it, body distress is now universal. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]New figures from the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons are expected to show that the number of men opting for breast-reduction procedures last year rose by nearly half. The figure has already increased tenfold from only 22 operations in 2003, to 224 in 2007. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Les Iverson, the chairman of the technical committee of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, told a meeting late last year: There is a much wider use in the community of anabolic steroids by young men for cosmetic reasons and by security guards who feel the need to be big and strong to do their job. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Latest estimates from the British Crime Survey suggest that 179,000 people aged 16-59 have used anabolic steroids but Professor Iverson told the committee that the figure might be more than 200,000. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Mike Linnell, of the Lifeline drugs charity in Manchester, said that needle-exchange projects are reporting rising numbers of men injecting steroids for cosmetic reasons. What we have seen over the last two years is a growth in people who are not drug-users in the traditional sense. They are coming in because they used anabolic steroids because they wanted to look good. It is all about image, about looking good. This is now right across the board. [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]...[/SIZE]
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