Hoot's Corner

Weighing 135kg (297.6lb), Seccarecci’s height and thickly muscle-bound arms – huge even by the standards of his fellow competitors – brought him acclaim both on the bodybuilding circuit and in his native Italy. There he was the subject of an hour-long special on the music and entertainment channel MTV and appeared on Lo Show Dei […]

FEMALES have always taken the cake – or rather left it alone – when it comes to obsessing over body image, but this time it is the blokes making headlines. Schoolboys, some as young as 13, are said to be experimenting with anabolic steroids in order to build muscle mass, and the problem is not […]

A new report from the Journal of the American Medical Association found that dietary supplements account for half of all class-one drug recalls in the United States. The research, supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, showed that over a nine-year period (2004–2012), 51 percent of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) recalls involved dietary […]

Ever since Georges St-Pierre first announced his plans to take a hiatus from the sport of MMA, the tension between the former welterweight champ and the UFC has been exponentially growing. And on Tuesday, GSP added a little more fuel to the fire, admitting that one of the main reasons he decided to vacate his welterweight […]

FDA Initiates New Online Reporting Method for Dietary Supplement Adverse Events to Facilitate Reporting http://www.fda.gov/Food/NewsEvents/ConstituentUpdates/ucm381317.htm The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now accepting online submission of voluntary and mandatory dietary supplement adverse event reports. Anyone can submit a voluntary dietary supplement adverse event report (3500 form). The FDA encourages physicians, in particular, to […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Janyary 12, 2014   TAYLOR HOOTON FOUNDATION STATEMENT ON ARBITRATION RULING    McKinney, TX (January 12, 2014) – The Taylor Hooton Foundation, widely acknowledged as the leader in the advocacy against appearance and performance enhancing drug use by the youth of America, has issued the following statement in response to requests for […]

WASHINGTON – Teenage boys who think they’re too skinny when they are actually a healthy weight are at greater risk of being depressed as teens and as adults when compared to other boys, even those who think they are too heavy, according to findings published by the American Psychological Association. Boys who inaccurately see themselves […]

During the time he allegedly worked with Anthony Bosch to illegally improve his performance and bypass Major League Baseball’s drug-testing program, Alex Rodriguez spoke regularly with teenagers about the dangers of illegal performance-enhancing drugs. Now that independent arbitrator Fredric Horowitz has upheld Major League Baseball’s contention Rodriguez used illegal PEDs, slapping the beleaguered Yankees third […]

Even as he worked with Anthony Bosch to illegally improve his performance and bypass Major League Baseball’s drug-testing program, Alex Rodriguez spoke regularly with teenagers about the dangers of illegal performance-enhancing drugs. Now that A-Rod has been found guilty by independent arbitrator, being slapped with a suspension for the entire 2014 season, it’s fair to […]

The president of the Taylor Hooton foundation – which works to eliminate steroid use among teens – says in a statement that his concern is that the public is more interested in the use of steroids in athletes, rather than the 1.5 million kids using illegal drugs.   The Biogenesis scandal was churning along full […]