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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.