Nature’s Perfect Isotonic – sports or energy drink, coconut water.
It is amazing to think that the coconut tree is busy nearly 12 to 13 times a year! This makes the tree very productive, producing coconuts all year round, any amount from 40 to 60 a year all from one tree! Due to the name coco-nut we think of it as a nut, well it’s the biggest nut! There is some confusion between coconut milk and coconut water. Inside a healthy fresh coconut you will find a watery, slightly cloudy, almost clear coconut water. It has a slight nutty taste, anyway this is not coconut milk it is coconut water. Many Asian recipes call for coconut milk which is a thick white...
Read MoreSports 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...
Read MoreEnergy drinks – energy depleting in the long run
If your diet is leaving you feeling tired and rundown you are on the wrong diet. Grabbing an energy drink is not the answer. These drinks can include (they vary) methylxanthines (including caffeine), B vitamins, quarana ( a stimulant), taurine, ginseng (a mild stimulant), maltodextrin (a form of sugar), carbonated water, inositol, creatine, carnitine, glucuronolactone (a naturally occurring chemical compound produced by the metabolism of glucose in the liver). How much sugar each one contains varies too – or they might come in a diet version with artificial chemical sweeteners. These...
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