What Counts as a Vitamin?

With all the hulabaloo about some sports people taking performance enhancing drugs, I’d have thought the powers that be wouldn’t allow legal steroids to exist but apparently they do. I wonder where the line is drawn between vitamin supplement (like the kind my pediatrician has said are ok for the kids) and steroids. I’ve always assumed they are radically different and perhaps they are. But then where is the gray area that some athletes have taken refuge in saying they thought they were taking a supplement when it was really a banned substance. Is it really that hard to tell the difference?  If you are an athlete, it is important that you know exactly what is going into your body.

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