Originally Posted by
Slaninar
That is exactly my point - artificial doesn't equal bad. Where did I say it is bad?
As far as pro sport: training, doing it for years, does cause exhaustion and damage to body. It can happen in amateur sports as well, but when eating and paying the bills requires good results, one is more likely to compete even with (not fully healed) injury, to train too hard, etc. There is a line, and when there's lots of money involved (even when there's not, but more so when it's a living), it's often and more gladly crossed.
Ok. Seems I misread; you really didn't present your reason pro sports are unhealthy until just now.
Now, what you describe surely happens, but is it the way things have to be? The whole point of organized sports and games is to provide controlled conditions. Why wouldn't the participants' general health and well-being be a consideration, especially when it's what they do "for a living?" Why shouldn't the conditions of training be just another one of the things that's controlled?