Study: Muscle-Enhancing Behaviors Increasingly Common Among Teens

Apparently, Hanz and Franz from "Saturday Night Live" aren't the only ones trying to getpumped up these days.

Both teenage boys and girls are engaging in muscle-enhancing behaviors far more than previously known, according to a study published online today in the journal Pediatrics.

As large, lean, muscular male body images have risen in popularity in Western culture, so too has teenage boys' dissatisfaction with their own bodies, the study suggests. Some boys thus decide to engage in muscle-enhancing behaviors to shape their bodies like the ones being presented to them in the media.

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