Pills and powders used to bulk up or slim down can harm teens.

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Teenagers using dietary supplements to lose weight, gain weight or build muscle could be putting themselves at risk for serious harm and even death, says new study.

Outside experts who study drug ingredients in the marketplace were not surprised by the new findings., these categories -- weight loss, sports supplements, special enhancement supplements -- keep on popping up," Dr. Pieter Cohen, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, said.But a trade organization for the supplement industry, the Council for Responsible Nutrition, maintains that the vast majority of dietary supplements are safe.

young people using performance-enhancing drugs and products, and in fact, labels on most products that contain creatine say they're not intended for people under 18.teens from buying them"It’s not illegal to sell these products to kids under age 18," said Dr. Ruth Lynn Milanaik, a specialist in developmental and behavioral pediatrics at Cohen Children's Medical Center in Hewlett, New York.

Sixty-seven percent of those clerks recommended creatine to the person they thought was a teenage boy.

 

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I agree with MeerkatCity1

Lab produced is not the answer- Organic natural whole foods are….🧐

Please watch out with those energy. They sent my son to emergency with his heart rhythm.

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