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Nutrition, supplements, and drugs to improve sports performance in order to educate for the correct intake and to promote health in primary school
Full text linkIn the last decades, health is a primary topic. A balanced diet is key to living a healthy life. Over time, the idea has supported by assurance that the sport associated with an adequate diet allows the achievement of an excellent state of health. Therefore, the intake of the main nutrients, together with a regular physical activity, favors the regular exercise of the energetic, plastic and regulatory function of the body. A balanced diet does not need to be integrated, except in particular training states. However, the incorrect idea that integration can increase physical performance has become widespread. However, excessive and incorrect use of supplements can have negative consequences on health. Genetic, cultural and social factors can influence a dietary supplement. In our society, the teaching of physical education and sport constitute a fundamental aspect for the human, social and intellectual development of the individual and for the prevention of doping behaviors. This teaching must begin from primary school, a fundamental time that links to exercising a good education in incorrect correct lifestyles. Nutrition therefore plays a role of fundamental importance in the daily life of a sportsman and certainly this role reflects on psychological well-being but above all on its sporting performance. The teacher, therefore, plays an important role in the training of “physically” educated people and in promoting a primary care. This healthy lifestyle must be encouraged from an young age, it must be strengthened and followed throughout the across life course
THE TRAUMATIC PAIN OF INJURED ATHLETES: PHARMACOLOGIC CONSIDERATIONS IN THE TREATMENT WITH ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS.
No full textAttitude and practice of substance misuse and dietary supplements to improve performance in sport
No full textThe knowledge of using performance-enhancing drugs and supplements is caused by psychological and social dynamics. Moreover, athletes used pharmaceuticals to improve their performance, which is commonly known as doping. Doping in sports is the “use of prohibited techniques and/or the assumption of prohibited substances by athletes in order to increase physical performances”. If an individual believes that capacity is not related to commitment, then they are more exposed to the use of performance-enhancing drugs. This misuse is ethically and legally incorrect. We will agree that sport is essentially under the current antidoping campaign executed by a coordinated alliance between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), law enforcement authorities and sports organizers. Doping is a public health issue and not simply a problem inside the professional sports community. Opinions are spreading in support of liberalization of doping. Some are based on the circumstances that currently the values of equality and health are not protected and, therefore, the liberalization of doping doesn’t result in a change in the current situation. Indeed, the prohibitionist attitude involves the search for substances and methods of administration increasingly dangerous. This review is a portrait of this issue and explores some arguments concerning various aspects of the problem
Drugs abuse in Elite Athletes: Doping in Sports
No full textIt is generally believed, especially among athletes and practicing sports people that the use of performanceenhancing drugs, besides improving performance, leads to the obtainment of easy results accompanied by glory and money gain. Unfortunately, the misuse and abuse of pharmacologically active substances have become so widespread in present day sports that the safety, the health and the longevity of far too many athletes are now compromised. More recently, athletes began the use pharmacological practices by assuming a stimulant of popular diffusion called strychnine. With the years gone by and the pharmacological progress, the use of drugs by athletes became more intense reaching a point of international phenomenon known as “doping”. The restless evolution and multiplication of doping methods and substances, the fear by athletes of harsh sports and legal sanctions as well as the inadequacy of the identification techniques for illegal substances, contribute to make a not accurate evaluation of the prevalence of the Doping phenomenon. In the course of the time, the results obtained in genetics have been used in the field of sport, creating a new form of doping, called "gene doping". The athletes may be able to use gene therapy to re-engineer their bodies for better performances. One of the primary reasons for having a list of prohibited substances and methods is to protect athlete health. However, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) prohibited drugs, as beta2 agonists or glucocorticosteroids and some athletes with genuine medical conditions, were denied legitimate medical therapy. The use of drugs that have the potential to improve physical performance is restricted by anti-doping regulation. Therefore, act 376/2000 establishes three distinct types of doping offenses
Ethical issues and doping in Olimpic and Paralympic Games
No full textThe diffusion of doping is caused by psychological and social dynamics. If the guys believe that the capacity is not related to commitment, then they are more exposed to the use of performance-enhancing drugs. There are three categories of reasons that induce athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs too: causes psychological and emotional, social and psycho-physiological. Moreover, in literature you can read other reasons that push people to take drugs: the “effect of formulation”, the “principle of utility”, the “heuristics of the accessibility” and the “representativeness heuristic”. Doping exists not only in professional sport but also affects amateur athletes. It poses a threat to sport worldwide. To use substances or resort to methods that may artificially alter the capabilities is ethically and legally wrong. The main ethical issues related to gene doping are also found in their detection that involves tissue sampling. There is a risk for the future generations, too. Moreover, the modification of DNA could lead to the creation of new and unknown viruses. Another problem related to ethical is the use of the prosthesis by disabled athletes. Also, in the case of “boosting” the athletes don’t taking performance-enhancing drugs, they don’t commit any offence, so this practise is not prohibited by WADA. Moreover, the use of implants, the “technodoping”, and their additional benefit, is another ethical issue. Various arguments are spreading in support of liberalization of doping. Some are based on the circumstances that currently the values of equality and health are not protected and, therefore, the liberalization of doping doesn’t result in a change in the current situation. Indeed, according to others, the attitude prohibitionist involves the search for substances and methods of administration increasingly dangerous such that the liberalization entails a greater control and a greater spread of "safe" substances
Doping in sport and its developments in our age
No full textMan has always tried to improve his physical performance. Doping is an ancient phenomenon. It exists not only in professional sport, but also affects amateur athletes. Furthermore, it involves athletes’ friends and relatives, medical staff, managers, chemists, biologists and pharmacists, pharmaceutical industries, clandestine laboratories and criminal organizations. Over time, doping has shown a great ability to discover and always use new substances and appropriated the new scientific discoveries. Unfortunately, new discoveries for the human health are been used in distorted way by the athletes. In fact, the athletes may be able to use gene therapy to re-engineer their bodies for better performances. Drug dependence depends on several factors: the socio-environmental context of the subject and what effects have the substance in the body. Moreover, the drug dependence could be connected to the indirect gratification. WADA, in 2004, drew up a Code that is constantly emended. The Code explains not only “what is” doping but it contains sanctions too. Others instruments used to contrast doping are the accredited laboratories, the biological passport and the Anti-Doping Administration & Management System (ADAMS), a Web-based database management system that simplifies the daily activities of all stakeholders and athletes involved in the anti-doping system
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