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Super Bowl, A Question of Life or Cardiovascular Death! ✰ Are Super BOWLs to Blame For the US Obesity Epidemic? ✰ By BMI Standards the Average NFL Player is "Obese"

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Conundrum of the day: Is it really any wonder, that the average American has weight problems if their football stars are obese? After reading the "Cultural Guide to the Super Bowl for People Who Don't Watch Football" ( read it yourself) on Wire.com, I realized that I cannot simply ignore Super Bowl XLVIII and since I have absolutely no idea of how American Football works and how it came about that you, my dear US friends, are going crazy about people carrying a ball that's called FOOT-ball (I mean, it's not "carry-ball") around in your arms, I decided to do what I usually do, when I don't understand things: Look for answers on the science databases on the Internet. I have to admit, I did not really find the answer to my initial question and I still don't know the rules of the game, but I found a couple of "related" stories, you may be interested in: Super-BOWLs to blame for the obesity epidemic (van Kleef. 2012) -- I guess this...
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Ask Dr. Andro: Does the Deer Velvet Antler Spray NFL Fullback Heath Evans is Supposed to Have (Ab-)Used Work? Does it Contain IGF-1 & Can IGF-1 Be Taken Orally?

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Question from Lerner: "Dr. Andro, check out the following link . It's about deer antler (which I didn't find being discussed in a search of suppversity) -- and how that supposedly contains IGF-1. I don't watch NFL football, but they do get paid big money and that motivates them to try different things for sure. Still, does it work, or is it just placebo effect?" Image 1: Legal growth hormone supplements in the NFL? How legit is the deer velvet antler extract containing 'The Ultimate Spray '  (image source official SWATS homepage ) Answer from Dr. Andro: Initially, I wanted to dismiss this one all together, because I remembered out of my head one of two peer-reviewed studies on the use of deer antler, which was not able to find any effect of elk velvet antler extract at a daily dose 560mg on exercise performance or endocrine parameters in 25 male and female rowers ( Syrotuik. 2005 ). How on earth would the hilariously labeled The Ultimate Sp...
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