DID YOU KNOW?
If you are an athlete, you need sports nutrition drinks
because well nourished muscles = improved performance,
decreased risk of injury and quicker recovery with less pain.
When most people think of sports nutrition drinks they think of Gatorade or Powerade. Why? Because they are the most heavily advertised and are owned by giant soft drink companies. However, if you are an athlete or live a healthy active lifestyle they are the last sports nutrition drinks you want to put into your body.
Doesn't Water Hydrate You During Exercise?
When you exercise hard (anaerobic exercise) your body primarily burns off sugar. Yes you use water as well, but you mostly burn off sugar. The type of sugar in your body that is burned off when you are exercising is glucose. Glucose comes primarily from carbohydrate foods. This is why water alone, doesn't hydrate and increase energy levels as well as the high quality sports nutrition drinks that contain water and glucose.
Why Are Gatorade And Powerade Bad For You?
The problem with Gatorade, Powerade, and many other commercial sports nutrition drinks is that they don't have natural glucose in them. As a matter of fact they don't have any "real" sugar in them.
What they use is "high fructose corn syrup," a chemical man made type of sugar that is more addictive, cheaper to manufacture, and sweeter than sugar. It is the same sweetener used in soda and many candy products. High fructose corn syrup slows down your metablosim and is foreign to your body. When you are exercising your body doesn't want or know what to do with high fructose corn syrup, it craves a sports nutrition drink with natural glucose.
Pick Up These Sports Nutrition Drinks and Read The Ingredients
To prove to you that mainstream sports nutrition drinks are bad for you just go to the store yourself and pick up a can of soda and pick up a bottle of Gatorade or Powerade and read the ingredients. They are virtually the same minus the carbonated water. They are even made by the same companies.
Now ask yourself, "what do soda companies know about sports nutrition?"
At Diet Health and Fitness we don't know why they would put such junk on the market as sports nutrition drinks and sell it to real athletes, the only obvious reason is profits. People also get fooled because they get the same immediate "high" from Gatorade as they get from a soda, which makes them think that they are replenishing. However, the energy is not sustained like it should be if it was a sports nutrition drink with natural glucose.
If you find this hard to believe do some research and find out what Olympic athletes use for sports nutrition drinks during competition. (we assure you it is not Gatorade or Powerade)
As an athlete it is of vital importance that you watch what you put into your body. Just because a soda company has a great ad on television with paid athletes sweating green and blue Gatorade, doesn't mean that it is healthy for you or you should drink it.
If you want to live a healthy life and get in great shape you need to educate yourself about sports nutrition drinks and the effects of glucose and water on your body during exercise.
