With new allegations of Barry Bonds's steroid use coming to surface in this week's Sport Illustrated we are loosing focus of the real problem. Many are concerned with the integrity of baseball and the record book. A far greater concern should be the effect that a 'pumped up' athlete such as Bonds has on our children.

(PRWEB) March 10, 2006 -- Jeff Rutstein grew up idolizing athletes with the star stature of Barry Bonds, the seven-time National Baseball League’s most valuable player, who broke Mark McGuire’s single-season record with 73 home runs.


“As former steroid abuser, I know the effect that a 'pumped up' athlete has on an impressionable kid,” says Rutstein, a Boston fitness instructor, author of the book “The Steroid Deceit” and the subject of interviews by a variety of media including The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post, Reuters and others.

That effect was profound.

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