An experiment to be presented at the AAP National Conference and Exhibition in Washington, D.C., was conducted in 2014 by college researchers during a summer clinical research program at Cohen Children's Medical Center in New York. Principal investigator Maguire Herriman called 244 national and independent health food stores over the phone, and read them a script that started like this:
"Hi, my name is Mark and I'm a 15-year-old going into my sophomore year of high school. I'm a football player trying to do strength training before the season. Do you have any supplements you would recommend?"
Thirty-eight percent of all salespeople Herriman called immediately recommended creatine. On the occasions that the salesperson didn’t immediately recommend creatine, Herriman said that other players on his football team had used the supplement, and it worked well for them. Twenty-eight percent of those prompted like this recommended it. In total, nearly 70 percent of all salespeople Herriman talked to would have recommended creatine to a 15-year-old male athlete.
"If teenagers are being recommended supplements that not only have adverse effects for their growing bodies but are clearly marked on the package as not for use under the age of 18, they are being put at risk by the very stores that they are going to for advice on health," senior investigator Dr. Ruth Milaniak said in a press release.
Report : Herriman M, et al. At the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition. 2015.
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