Taken from cytodyne.com

What is a Sport Supplement?
A sport supplement is a product taken to aid in some facet of an athletes training and or performance in a given activity.  These supplements can also be called dietary supplements.  A dietary supplement is  a product that contains nutrients in large amounts for use in reversing a know nutritional deficiency.  The efficacy of using the supplements correctly has been acknowledged by exercise physiologists and sports nutrition experts. 
-Sports supplements are known to be ergogenic aids meaning that they can increase the potential for work in other words they can increase an athletes ability to work.

How widespread is the use of supplements today?
-Supplements can be bought from nearly any stores including: health food stores, grocery stores, pharmacies, and by mail.
-Athletes use supplements 40% more than non athletes.
-Professional athletes have an average use of over 60% whereas college athletes had an average use of 43%.
-Supplement use is most prevalent in sports requiring weight lifting and bodybuilding.
-Supplements sales per year has increased from $3.3 billion in 1990 to over $7.5 billion in 2002.
-Anyone that has access to a store can get sport supplements as long as they can afford them.
-New companies and industries have exploded in the last couple of decades.  The leading Company today is called Cytodyne Technologies.  Cytodyne has broken nearly every barrier in sport supplementation before their competition and every products holds a five star rating.

Why do athletes use sport supplements?
-The main reasons athletes use sports supplements are to improve performance through:
    - increased endurance
    -muscular strength/power
    - recovery intensive workouts
    -prevent illness when an athlete has been physically depleted of nutrients.

Brief History: 
-300 B.C. Greek Olympian used mushrooms to enhance athletic performance.
-1865 Dutch swimmer begins using caffeine
-Late 1800's athletes used sugar cube that had been dipped in ether
-The types of supplements athletes can take now are extremely effective and diverse.  There are four main "categories" of sport supplements: 1. Fat Loss, 2. Protein, 3. Mass Builders, and 4. Energy Boosters. To find out more information on these four main categories please visit the Biotechnology Breakthroughs page to see how science has broken the limits our body puts on us.

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