Anabolic Info - Worldwide Bodybuilding News

• Limits on ephedra advance
  A new bill in the U.S. Senate would require manufacturers of dietary supplements containing ephedra and other stimulants to prove their products are safe before marketing ...
  United States - 28. March 2003
  
  
• body building on March 23
  A total cash prize of twenty-five thousand pesos will be at stake when the first Red Bull Mindanao bodybuilding competition reels off on March 23 at the Gaisano Mall of General ...
  Philippines - 18. March 2003
  
  
• Scientists' health fears over slimming supplement
  Researchers claim a bodybuilding and slimming supplement taken by millions of people worldwide may cause genetic damage that can be passed down through ...
  United Kingdom - 18. March 2003
  
  
• FDA warns 3 area firms on ad claims
  Suppliers of dietary supplements told to change labeling Federal regulators sent warning letters to three local dietary supplement companies, claiming they made false ...
  United States - 15. March 2003
  
  
• Pumping up
  Grand Forks pair compete in bodybuilding, fitness championship Brent Collins spots for Colette Brunelle during a workout earlier this week in Center Court Fitness ...
  United States - 15. March 2003
  
  
• Some players see need for ephedra
  About a month ago, a National Football League offensive lineman stepped onto a scale in his bathroom. The numbers kept flipping over and over and when they stopped, the player was ...
  France - 15. March 2003
  
  
• Ephedra Blamed in Bechler's Heatstroke
  The diet supplement ephedra contributed to the heatstroke that killed Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler last month, a medical examiner said Thursday. Toxicology ...
  Germany - 14. March 2003
  
  
• Local man allegedly involved
  A township man was arrested Friday after an investigation revealed he was the "middle man" in the transfer of a large quantity of steroids that were shipped from China to be ...
  United States - 14. March 2003
  
  
• Bay Area prosecutors sue diet-drug company
  District attorneys from Alameda, Marin, San Francisco and five other California counties sued the maker of a dietary supplement on Monday, claiming the company's marketing ...
  United States - 12. March 2003
  
  
• New 'Legal Muscle' Bashes Steroid Laws
  An explosive new book about anabolic steroids examines conventional wisdom on the subject and shatters it. "Legal Muscle: Anabolics in America," available at
  United States - 12. March 2003
  
  
• Oh Canada! Here Comes A Gold's Rush
  Gold's Gym looks north for new opportunities and franchises VENICE, Calif.-In a recent move intended to develop new expansion opportunities in eastern Canada as ...
  United States - 11. March 2003
  
  
• Ephedra-ban bill passes House committee
  The rush to outlaw the pep pill ephedra got a boost Thursday when an Illinois House panel voted to advance the measure.Kevin Riggins, the father of Sean Riggins, 16, ...
  United States - 09. March 2003
  
  
• Drug Testers Have Designs on New Steroid
  The find was actually the second breakthrough for Catlin in a period of months. During the Salt Lake City Olympics last February, Catlin found the previously undetected ...
  Germany - 08. March 2003
  
  
• Feds propose rules for diet supplements
  Millions of users of St. John's wort, calcium and other dietary supplements may soon know for sure they're getting what they pay for: The government proposed the first ...
  United States - 08. March 2003
  
  
• Drug dealer must pay back taxes
  The tax collector has won a major victory in the sentencing of a convicted drug dealer. Clinton Stephen Evangelista, 29, was given a one-year conditional sentence ...
  Canada - 07. March 2003
  
  
• Sedqa advises steroid users
  There has been lots of international publicity in recent years about the illegal use of anabolic steroids, especially by professional athletes and weight lifters. ...
  Malta - 07. March 2003
  
  
• Cooper to be sentenced next week
  Former University of Maine football player Stephen Cooper will learn his fate in a week. The linebacker is set to be sentenced in Federal District ...
  United States - 06. March 2003
  
  
• Shabab crowned champions
  Shabab (Youth) bodybuilders were crowned champions of the Baghdad youth clubs competition, the U-21 event held recently at Sulaikh Indoor Hall, al-Ba’th ...
  Iraq - 06. March 2003
  
  
• Way open for GDR dope claims
  Former East German athletes who were victims of state organised doping can pursue the German Olympic Committee for damages after an appeal court ruling in Frankfurt today. ...
  United Kingdom - 06. March 2003
  
  
• Athletics: Irish athlete tests positive for banned drug
  An Irish athlete has tested positive for a banned substance, the Athletics Association of Ireland (AAI) said today. "It is with regret that the AAI must announce that ...
  Ireland - 05. March 2003
  
  
• Kruger 'B' sample also positive
  Sharks’ flyhalf Herkie Kruger, who tested positive for the use of the anabolic steroid nandrolone in January, has received the results ...
  South Africa - 05. March 2003
  
  
• Responsible Ephedra Users Say Cooper's Bill Is Unfair
  While Suffolk County Executive Robert Gaffney decides whether or not to sign into law the ban on ephedra, some longtime users feel the ban is going overboard by disallowing ...
  United States - 05. March 2003
  
  
• Attendance up at Arnold Classic
  The 15th Annual Arnold Schwarzenegger Classic drew about 80,000 visitors -- even in the country's eighth-fattest city. Ticket sales were up 12 percent from 2002, when ...
  United States - 04. March 2003
  
  
• Busy Weekend Helps Columbus Bottom Line
  A musclebound weekend is helping funnel cash into the city's economy. The busy weekend is seeing the Arnold Classic, a high school state wrestling tournament, a Bluejackets game, ...
  United States - 04. March 2003
  
  
• Seeking to Shed Fat, She Lost Her Liver
  The capsules, recommended by a friend, sounded wonderful: they were supposed to increase metabolism to help the body burn off fat. "It was like you're doing aerobic exercise ...
  United States - 04. March 2003
  
  
• Schering's Full-Year Net Rose 11% on Strong U.S. Sales
  Schering AG posted better-than-expected profits for 2002 on strong sales, particularly in the U.S., but said it expects growth to slow in 2003. The German ...
  Germany - 03. March 2003
  
  
• Arnold visits his old army tank
  Before he was the Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger was just another soldier in the Austrian army. He was reunited with a part of his military past during a visit to a ...
  United States - 02. March 2003
  
  
• FDA builds case to ban ephedra
  The government began building the case toward a possible ban of the popular herb ephedra Friday by proposing strong new warning labels that the pills can cause heart attacks ...
  United States - 02. March 2003
  
  
• SA strongman shatters two world records
  A South African strongman has shattered two world records in Parow, Cape Town. Riaan Steenkamp entertained a large crowd with a display of brute power. With the sun ...
  South Africa - 02. March 2003
  
  
• Sabah lifts overall bodybuilding title
  Mohammed Sabah picked up the overall winners trophy and cash prize of BD200 in the sixth National Day Body Rock Bodybuilding Championship organised by Bahrain Weightlifting and ...
  United States - 01. March 2003