This video tries to outline the different ways milk is negative to the human body. Demonstrating the different processes that milk have to go through before it is put out on the market shelf, and even then is still not safe to consume. It goes though many of the popular milk claims made in many of the milks commercials as they intent to make milk seem as “natures drink”, and disproves these claim by giving the side that many people are unaware of because they only focus on what they see on TV and what others want them to believe. Above all milk is not what we have been instill to believe but it is an impure manipulated drink that brings is makers and producers tons of cash every year.

This video demonstrate the exaggeration and false reality milk will go thru to make its product seems as the number 1 drink that serves and benefits you in any purpose. It shows a young girl who clearly seems weak and thin who drank a “might milk jug” automatically generate the strength to lift an enormous amount of weight.  Basically implying that if a girl as young and fragile as the one shown can lift that much weight just by drinking milk, imaging the possibilities of someone older and naturally stronger as Shaq.  This is clearly misleading because in no way will a girl like the one shown in the video ever be able to lift that amount of weight regardless if it is with milk or not or any other enhancing substance.  The name itself “mighty milk jug” its misleading within itself, implying that this milk jug is not ordinary milk but an even more intense form of the drink.

These are more of the “Got Milk?” commercial put out by the milk advertising companies. This form of advertisement is mocking baseball due to the time when they were going through a steroid scandal. If paid attention to the commercial one can see that they all are related to the actual events that circulated the MLB at the time of the scandal.  Many of the lines use by the actors in the video resemble real quotes use by the baseball players accused of steroids use, just rephrased or reworded to connotate milk instead of steroids.  For example “I never poured”, to “I never shoot up”. They also use similar names to the main baseball player who where accused like “Javier Castillo” for “Jose Canseco”.

Steroids have been link with many health risks, but none of them are factual and haven’t been proven. When used in the safest possible environment by the right individuals, I believe that steroids are not harmful. While there are possible reversible negative effects caused by steroid use, a responsible user can successfully monitor and minimize any of those with proper measures. With all the exaggerated claims in the media today it is easy to say that steroids are everywhere including the local and national news as they try to scare the public out of using these hormones. The answer to this problem is proper education on the use of steroids and instead of banding them from society. Having them legal makes them even safer as people will have a chance to use this hormone with the right guidance and purchase them from the right places.  Instead of buying illegal drugs and running the risk of potentially dying because sold and incorrect substance.

This is one of the “Got Milk?” commercial put on by the milk advertising companies. This form of advertisement purpose is to spoof major league baseball’s steroid abuse scandal, and to help increase the sales of milk that where down during the time the commercials aired in live television. Milk is trying to compare itself to anabolic steroids as a performance enhancing supplement which can have the same positive effects as taking anabolic steroids. They show off Milk as being a better alternative and legal to the public in contrast to steroids. The fact that they use baseball in there commercial is attributing to positive benefits to all athletes.

New ‘Got Milk’ Spots Spoof Baseball’s Steroid Scandal

By CELESTE WARD
Publication: Adweek
Date: Monday, October 10 2005

Board take a mock serious tone, as sports-news television shows report on a serious “substance” being abused by athletes. The baseball players are shown caught on surveillance tape, crying during sit-down interviews and denying usage to throngs of reporters. The performance-enhancing, muscle-building substance turns out to be milk.

A series of new “Got milk?” spots from Goodby, Silverstein & Partners steers away from the milk-deprivation approach of past ads and instead ridicules the recent baseball steroids scandal.

Breaking today, five new 30-second spots for the California Milk Processor

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Saved by Steroids

WHY THE JUICE MAY BE OUR NEXT MIRACLE MEDICINE

In the wrong hands–say, those of a San Francisco Giant–steroids shatter home-run records and all notions of integrity. But more often, the juice is used for good. Doctors commonly prescribe anabolic steroids for AIDS and cancer patients to combat cachexia, a devastating muscle-wasting condition. Burn victims also benefit from a boost: Because the trauma often causes their bodies to halt testosterone production, steroids can shorten healing time by 8 days.

“Steroids get a bad rap,” says William J. Evans, Ph.D., director of the nutrition, metabolism, and exercise lab at the University of Arkansas VA Medical Center. “The public doesn’t understand why a drug company would actually make an anabolic steroid, because the only circumstance they see is abuse, but there are real clinical uses.” In fact, if new steroid research pans out, the list of such uses may undergo a growth spurt of its own.

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This article  is about using steroids for medical purposes and therapy. It talks about different diseases such as, AIDS and cancer where steroids can be use to help patients heal faster.  Mentions something that I definitely agree with it and it is that “Steroids get a bad rap”. This is without a doubt true because when people hear the word Steroids” or “Roids” they attribute it to something illegal, dangerous, and immoral. The word basically has a negative connotation in our society due to all the exaggerated claims made by the media and other people in power. However, this article tries to justify and correct some of those false claims by explaining that these hormones can actually beneficiate the human race.

It also says that “the juice is used for good” as doctors prescribe anabolic steroids for “AIDS and cancer patients to combat cachexia, a devastating muscle-wasting condition”. For the most part, if steroids where so bad why do doctors use them on people that have a serious illness, or that are sick already. The thing is that they are not what the media wants the public to see them as, there actually safe substances that can actually scientifically help people and save lives. In addition, there are a variety of ways steroids can be use to help people who are suffering from different problems. For example, in alcohol abuse, “steroids may help protect brain tissue from the toxic effects of too much alcohol”. This new finding that research help unravel sounds to be beneficial to alcoholics, it does not really sound too legit because they do not give any evidence to back up this statement. Moving along, something that caught my attention was that in past research and article that I have read they claim that steroids cause injury to muscle tendons, due to the ligaments not developing as fast as the muscle. But, in this article they state the opposite, that steroid “when used with stretching regimen, actually helped form a tendon that was superior”.  The amazing part about this is that the tendons created by the anabolic steroids where stronger, and more organize in structure than natural tendons. This can really be beneficial to all serious athletes or any recreational exercise person, because it will decrease injuries in sports. As well as, a decrease in injuries will allow players to play hard and go all out in the game not worrying about getting injured.



Barry Lamar Bonds is probably one of the greatest baseball players to ever set foot on a MLB stadium and hit a baseball out of the stadium. Barry Bonds has been highly recognized for his intangible accomplishments which include a record setting seven Most Valuable Player awards, including a record-setting four consecutive MVPs. He is a fourteen-time All-Star and eight-time Gold Glove-winner. He holds numerous Major League Baseball records, including the all time Major League Baseball home run record with 762 and the single season Major League record for home runs with 73, and is also the all-time career leader in both walks (2,558) and intentional walks (688). However ever since the baseball steroids scandal he has been place as a central figure in it and this has led him to a controversial career.

Many people are starting to question if steroids where the cause of his success in baseball. It is safe to say that steroids have helped Bonds enhance his game but have not made him the players he is. Barry Bond was already born with talent and genes of an athlete inheriting it from his father a former major league All-Star Bobby Bonds. What got Barry to the top were not steroids but it was all the dedication he gave to his training and all the hard work he put in practices. His training along with his hard work, talent, and personality are what got him those all those broken records and awards. If it wasn’t for his consistency in perfecting his bating and games as a whole and the desire be the best he would have never gotten to where he gotten. So call it what you want and criticize him for his ambition to want to be the best, or congratulate him for his achievement that only a few man have ever come close to attaining.

Jay Curtler is a professional bodybuilder who won the Mr. Olympia title (highest bodybuilding achievement in the world) 2 consecutive times back in 2006 and 2007. But last year he lost and place 2nd to Dexter Jackson. But this year he came back ready and regained his title as the 2009 Mr. Olympia. Many say that Jay physic is the product of steroids and other hormones. Whether this is true or not Jay could not have won the Olympia 3 times in his life without shedding sweat, blood, and tears. His training along with his nutrition and hard work are what got him those Olympia titles. If it wasn’t for his consistency in going to the gym and hitting the weights, for his right portion of food intake and calculation to help his nutrition, and the desire to win he would have never won. So call it what you want and criticize him for his ambition to want to become a better bodybuilder, or congratulate him for his achievement that only a few man have ever achieved.

In this era that we live in  people are constantly looking to do mainly two things. 1. is improve their health/life/physical appearance and 2. Is to make money. This brings me to the battle between supplements and steroids. Supplements seem to be on top and winning the fight against steroids. Why? It might be because supplements can be legally sold and purchase and because the supplement industry has no kind of regulation. Where in the other hand steroids are constantly being badmouthed and chance by the DEA, as they are an illegal substance.

But just because steroids are illegal does that mean that they are more dangerous (bad) than supplements? Or just because supplements are legal does it mean that they are safer (good) rather than steroids? Of course not, just because something is legal compare to something else it does not make it better or safer than the other. Many laws throughout history have been modified because they weren’t right or accurate. In my opinion when someone is taking steroids they at least know what’s being put in their bodies. In contrast to supplements that just happen to discover new ingredients that claim to do unbelievable things and turn you to “the freak” as display in magazines. That’s the thing about supplements you don’t know what you’re taking in or if you’re even taking what they claim to be in the product at all.

Proprietary Blend

The supplement business is a very free unregulated business. They make products that have claim similarly to does of anabolic steroids and yet their legal. And in top of that your never know the exact amount of what youre getting or what any of the ingredients on them do or don’t do. Your are just basically trusting the advertisement and label of the product but don’t have any facts towards what your buying. The proprietary blend is made of ingredients on that no one has ever heard of, and they never show you exactly how much they are putting in. And since this is an unregulated business they don’t have to do anything, so this means they don’t have to label the amounts of ingredients in their product, or even actually put the ingredients in there. Theres nobody enforcing anything so they can get away with it, and you walk away with a flashy new “suppose breaking university tested” supplement that has the possibility of doing nothing for you except waste your hard earn cash.

Comparison

The supplement industry is trying to make products like steroids to have the same benefits and results as these hormones bring. They name the products according to some popular steroids name and claim to be the “legal alternative” to taking them. This all dosent make sense to me why would something that is beneficial to us (steroids) be restricted and something that we are not even sure of its real purpose or effects (supplements) be openly available to be purchase.