College athletes increase body mass in short time

A few college sportspersons are caught using forbidden preparations. Does it mean that they don’t dope? Less than 1% of college football players have been caught violating anti-doping rules. They have tested positive for steroids and/or other doping products. Such situation must assure anti-doping agencies that they win in the war on doping. But certain suspicions arise. It is believed that many college football players use steroids and/or other related drugs but they avoid detection successfully.
Why do such suspicions appear? Changes in physique of college football players lead to controversial affirmations. Thus, changes in body weight of more than 61,000 college football players were recently analyzed by the Associated Press. Results manifested that a lot of college football players increased their body weight in short period of time significantly. More than 20 pounds were obtained by over 4,500 college football players during a year. Furthermore, circa 100 individuals increased the body weight by more than 80 pounds during a year. As you see, the gains were significant.
Several experts affirm that these aspects should not trouble anti-doping officials. They notice that anti-doping officials shouldn’t subject college football players to drug tests only because they have enhanced body weight obviously.
But other specialists have another opinion. Although they agree that it is impossible to assure that certain football players have taken anabolic steroids and/or other related medicines, basing only upon changes in body weight, they notice that the changes may be a factor that causes suspicions connected with intake of steroids. So, such individuals that have increased body mass in short period of time should be subjected to drug testing.
Several college athletes that enhanced body mass essentially in short period of time were asked about their changes. The football players claimed that they had never applied any forbidden preparations. They affirmed that they reached such great changes naturally. The college athletes noticed that they had consumed much food for this need. Thus, they affirmed that such evident results were achieved by them with the help of appropriate diets. According to them, it was not difficult to get many pounds in short period of time.