Sports drinks – the very unhealthy, the healthy and the super healthy?
A 12-ounce bottle of Gatorade contains 75 calories, 21 grams of sugar and 165 milligrams of sodium, compared with 150 calories, 40.5 grams of sugar and 52 milligrams of sodium in a can of Coke. If a student consumes a 20-ounce bottle of Gatorade, he/she ingests approximately 275 milligrams of sodium, almost 12 percent of the recommended daily allowance for people ages 14 to 18. Already, more than 75 percent of children consume more than the recommended 2,300 milligrams of sodium each day, according to the Institute of Medicine. One of the reasons for training or playing a sport is to become...
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