Steroids In Western Society

History is divided in two different cultures, where both cultures are the total opposite from each other. We only see the western society because we have lived in the west. We grew up with the mindset of the bigger that it gets the better it will be. When I was a little kid I remember playing with action figures like the G.I. Joes and the superheroes. The one thing I remembered from the toys and it never taught about that is the toys size. The shape of the toys are with what we call a perfect body, they are big; the arms, legs and upper body. Like we can see (see fig.1) the evolution of the action figures is a perfect example of the western society, year after year the new models are bigger and the bodies more define.
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Companies making money, black market rising on demand of the products and the people such as athletes and body builders paying the price. When we hear the word steroid we tend to put a negative view. But what are Steroids? That is the question that we have to ask among ourselves. Anabolic Steroids are synthetic versions of testosterone, which are artificial to enhance performance and physical appearance. Steroids are used in the medical field to battle with AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) and in some cases help with the delayed puberty.
The perception of a person that uses steroids is a big human with gigantic arms and legs, with needles in the neck, hungry and psychotic looking, the reason for that is the belief that we have develop as humans, without noticing, they are more normal people using steroids than athletes. When I said as normal people I am referring non-athlete people. More people are trying to put their bodies to a high level of endurance without the proper exercise and diet. The anabolic steroids have two different components: androgenic and anabolic …show more content…
After the incident in the Olympics, the demand for anabolic steroids blew up for world-class athletes, most of the athletes participating in sports such as: Powerlifting and weightlifting. The results of taking Performance Enhance was so impressive and different that it created a new world, from High school athletes to professionals sports athletes everybody dream to be the greatest of all times. The production was growing faster for the anabolic steroids than the cold and flu medicine. The demand was so high that big companies could not keep in track with the