So I could understand the history of the main focus of my artefact, I decided to research into where sports and protein supplements stemmed from. In an article by Consumer Health Digest (2015) I learnt that sports supplements have only recently become popular with ‘ordinary’ people, initially being used as bodybuilding supplement in the 1950s. It stayed like this until the last decade, when the industry expanded and “through mass popularization of supplements, one can say that the science behind them has [made them] become more accessible to a larger group of people”. It is interesting that they have become more popular at the same time as the rise of social media and, after doing my primary research speaking to members of my local gym, I definitely believe that the two are correlated.
rob harris 