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The American Psychological Association has identified an emerging eating disorder in men: the excessive consumption of bodybuilding supplements. Supplements such as whey protein, creatine, and L-cartinine are legal and not regulated by the FDA.
[Richard Achiro, PhD] and co-author Peter Theodore, PhD, also at the California School of Professional Psychology [at Alliant International University, Los Angeles], found that more than 40 percent of participants [in a study] indicated that their use of supplements had increased over time and 22 percent indicated that they replaced regular meals with dietary supplements not intended to be meal replacements.... On the more extreme end, 8 percent of participants indicated that their physician had told them to cut back on or stop using supplements due to actual or potential adverse health side effects, and 3 percent had been hospitalized for kidney or liver problems that were related to the use of supplements.
An article from Fox News provides additional insight from Achiro:
"Because we just assume sometimes that's what men do, collectively, it's kind of a normal thing, and in fact they're overusing these supplements in a way that is damaging themselves and the people around them in some cases," he said.
"What are these men compensating for? Feelings of impotence in relationships, work life or both?" Achiro said. "It's an underlying behavior men know is problematic, but are unable to change because so few of us men are open to addressing our emotional worlds and sense of inadequacy."
Healthline also reports the study along with more of Achiro's thoughts on the problems men face due to a change in the "'ideal masculine' physique presented by the media... from hyper-muscularity — such as Arnold Schwarzenneger — to a mesomorphic ideal, which is muscular and lean, highlighting the importance of muscular definition."
I'm reminded of the scene from Fight Club where Tyler is staring at a Calvin Klein-esque ad, and the narrator asks, "Is that what a real man is supposed to look like?"
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday August 07 2015, @04:41PM
Yeah, people who drastically change their diet and spend disproportionate amounts of time at the gym have other problems, bigger problems than their diet.
The few times I visited /fit/ I realized that 99% of them are either homosexual, closet homosexual, or straight men wondering why they can't get any pussy with those ripped 'bods of theirs. You should have seen the way they reacted when I posted a thread about penis extenders. I could almost hear them crying as they posted replies like "W-women don't care about that, I know, I have a lot of women as friends!" as if their deepest inner-but-unconfirmed fears were finally confirmed in the form of a bulbous rubber sheath.
I love to exercise. But I have a more healthy attitude about it. Eating a little healthier is always a good thing, as diet is like 70% of keeping weight from skyrocketing, but no way in hell I'm going to chug jars of powders of shit and spend more than an hour at a time in the gym. Fuck all that mechanical, regimented bullshit -- I know I exercised in a healthy manner when I take only one shit per day, and it's knurled like the interior of my colon and hard and thick like a python.
When your shits are so big and hard that they hurt in passing, you know you did it right.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 07 2015, @09:55PM
Most women really don't, so long as you don't have a micropenis or something. A friend once told me she went down on a dude while drunk and was laughing the whole time because he was only 4 inches, but hey, she still took it just fine. Only size queens - a minority of women - need anything more than average, and the average is only 5 1/2 inches.