The latest issue of Sports Illustrated has several features focusing on the intersection of sports, performance enhancement, illegal drugs/steroids, and dietary supplements. As more and more big-name athletic stars are caught testing positive for banned substances, an ever increasing amount of negative attention is being placed on dietary supplements. The articles we'd like to draw your attention to here are essentially framing DSHEA and dietary supplements as enablers for such infringements.

Performance enhancing drugs, with their competitive bent, have long been giving dietary supplements a black eye. This single, highly-visible sector of the industry is quickly eroding the general public's confidence in supplements as a whole. For a prime example of this, see the following articles from one of America's prime populist weekly magazines, a venue more likely to showcase bikini clad models and jocular Q&A's than a discussion about nutrition. Vigorously amped scare-tactic article title included: What You Don't Know Might Kill You. And second feature: The Fda's Burden. (Yes, there should be a [sic] in there. Perhaps it's FDA in the print edition.)

The online articles do not have comments enabled, but if anyone would like to let your opinion of this matter heard, below are Sports Illustrated's info for letters to the editor: