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| Q: Are sports drinks beneficial? A: Gatorade, Powerade and the like are specially brewed beverages designed for endurance athletes, not fitness enthusiasts. Unless you are exercising for more than two hours, water and sensible nutrition habits are all you need to properly rehydrate your body. When you sweat, you do lose water and electrolytes, but not to a point where a fabricated drink is necessary. Sweating is a normal physiological mechanism that cools the body anytime it produces excess heat (during exercise, on a hot day, or before a nerve-wracking event). Your body would not have developed this ability if it were unhealthy or unsafe – it is smarter than that! If you are trying to lose weight, sports drinks will add calories to your diet without providing real nutrition or making you feel full. Choose water for a calorie-free way to stay hydrated! If you are an endurance athlete, sports drinks may be beneficial since they instantaneously replace sodium lost in sweat and provide calories in the form of carbohydrates to give you energy to help you maintain your performance. They may help performance, but are not essential for health or safety. After all, Olympic marathoners lived to tell of their tale before the multi-million dollar sports drink industry was born. |
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