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Sports Drinks - Should
They Part of Your Diet and Exercise Program? |
by:
Jeff Smith |
Sports
Drinks - Should They Part of Your Diet and Exercise
Program?
You've seen the diet and exercise commercials
featuring
buff, perfectly tanned, healthy and happy young
people
doing extreme exercising replenishing themeselves
with
the latest sports drink.
You can't watch a sporting event in North America
without
seeing some sponsor reference to one of these
power or
sports drinks.
But how healthy are these drinks really?
Starting with a formula of sugar, minerals and
salt - the
idea was to replace critical components of your
body lost
during prolonged, intense exercise programs.
Should these be a part of your diet and exercise
program?
First thing you should know is that the minerals
replenished
such as Potassium, are lost over a longer term
of exercising -
say more than 1-hour of intensive exercise.
Second, you ingest a great deal of sugar, carbohydrates
and
sodium in these drinks, which may not be beneficial
to all
those except the most extreme diet and exercise
programs.
For example, taking a look at Gatorade, the
first in a long
line of sports drinks - we see that an average
bottle contains
a whopping 107Mg of sodium and 15.5g of carbs.
Powerade is more moderate on sodium at 31mg,
but is higher in
carbs at 22g
Reality is that for the average person who is
doing no to
moderate diet and exercise program, water is
all they need to
stay hydrated.
Sports drinks to those performing moderate diet
and exercise
programs will be consuming valuable calories
as pure sugar
resulting in more carbs.
Stick with water unless you are into high performance
exercise
programs, and you will get the benefit of hydration
without
the excess sodium, sugar and carbs.
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