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On the Foxnews.com webvsite there is an article called "5 percent of youth have used steroids to bulk up, study finds". According to a new study from Minnesota, they say that about five percent of middle and high school students have used anabolic steroids to put on muscle. So basically, more than one-third of boys and one-fifth of girls in this study have said they have used protein powder shakes to gain their muscle mass, and between five to ten percent have used non-steroid muscle enhancing substances, such as creatine.

Some researchers have said that the youth seeing all the buff and built women and men on advertising commercials and magazines, may have some impact on why their viewers may want to look like the people they see on televison and magazines. Dr. Linn Goldberg, from Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.

Dr. Linn Goldberg, from Oregon Health and Science University in Portland said, "really the pressure to start using (steroids) is in high school." Dr. Linn Goldberg also says, "that the 14 year olds that are coming up to high school, see all the 17 year olds which are seniors and they have some influence on the younger kids." Some of the younger kids may look up to one of those seniors and if they know of their "role model" doing steroids, they might try them to fit in or be like the older person.

Student athletes were more likely than there peers to use methods of muscle building. According to findings published in the journel Pediatrics, Asian students were three to four times more likely to have used steroids in the past year then the white students.

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Since I watched the movie Parent Trap, Lindsey Lohan was always someone I looked up to. Now that I have grown up a bit, I have realized that because of all the mistakes she is and has made, she is no longer a respectable role model for children and young adults.

In a recent article, Report: Lindsay Lohan will be charged with lying to police, faces more jail time
from FoxNews.com, they have said " Lindsey will be charged with the crime of lying to police after her car accident in June on Pacific Coast Highway." Lohan told the police she was not behind the wheel of her car when it crashed into the back of an 18 wheeler. The case got filed as a misdemeanor.

She could possibly be getting into bigger trouble because of her past. She is on probation for a jewelry theft. She could get into trouble for a probation violation and the judge that was her judge for her theft could send her to jail. 


After the crash, law enforcement said they had found pills scattered all in the car. Lohan's lawyer did give police documentation from Lindsey's doctor saying the pills were properly prescribed. After the crash, Lohan was at the hospital where she was interviewed by police. That is when she told them she was not behind the wheel. Lohan's lawyer was making a beeline to her client Lohan to make sure she did not say anything, but when Lohan's lawyer arrived, it was too late.