Health food stores recommend teens try performance supplement not recommended under 18

Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 05:00 in Health & Medicine

Posing as a 15-year-old athlete wanting to bulk up during strength training, a researcher asked more than 200 health food stores whether he should take a sports performance supplement containing creatine. Despite recommendations against using creatine under age 18 by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Sports Medicine, more than two-thirds of the stores' sales attendants told him to give it a try.

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