Talk:Sports drink
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[edit] Sports drinks vs. energy drinks
Can someone explain how sports drinks are different from energy drinks? Is there even a difference? --Lowellian 00:36, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)
- Sports drinks are intended to replenish electrolytes, sugar, water, and other nutrients, and are usually isotonic (containing the same proportions as found in the human body). Energy drinks simply provide lots of sugar and caffeine, with no healthful purpose. --[[User:Eequor|η
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- I'd have to disagree that ALL energy drinks have no "healthful" purpose. Some energy drinks do intentionally provide healthfull ingredients such a Vitamin C, B6, B12, etc.. --Cab88 19:29, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
Is it really true that sports drinks are usually isotonic? As I understand it, Gatorade, the most popular sports drink, is not, nor are any of the Gatorade clones (Powerade, etc.). [[User:CyborgTosser|CyborgTosser (Only half the battle)]] 02:20, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Yes sports drins are usually isotonic, in fact i would argue that by defination 'true' sports drinks have to be isotoic. Gatorade and clones are isotonic, but in much lower levels than specialty sports drinks. PhatePunk 10:41, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Snack beverage
This might seem petty dumb, but can we define "snack beverage"? ~ Dpr 19:24, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Late Night Drinking
Energy drinks, to me. Are only good for recovering from a sickness or staying up late playing computer games with friends.
I'd reckon if there was an energy drink targeted at internet nerds (such as myself). It would make billions of dollars.
[edit] Snack Beverage Defined?
A drink taken only because the drinker felt like it?
[edit] Stub classification
Maybe the article is already good enough for not being classified as a stub. What do you think?
[edit] What about a Criticism Section
I've been in a gym where they instructed to avoid such drinks when a person's diet is already balanced mainly for they contain high ammounts of sugar. It sounds very logical. --161.76.99.106 17:53, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
Controlling Carbs to moderate weight is simplistic and leads people to making unhealthy diet choices! People active in sports need carbs.
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- Ye, sugar isn't "evil" but balanced diets from most doctors and nutricionists usually don't add more than what is contained naturally in other foods. In addition, I don't see many olympic champions drinking power drinks, it's usually only water.
- It depends. If you're trying to lose weight, walking on the treadmill for half an hour, then consuming a 300 calorie energy drink is taking one step forward and two steps back, since you probably only burned 300 calories while on the treadmill. Smart water(tm) or some of the other "fitness waters" would be a better choice, since they replenish electrolytes without giving you a bunch of calories. Someone running a marathon, or doing cross-country sprinting for hours at a time, does in fact need all those extra carbs. ThePedanticPrick 15:01, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] contradiction
there is a contradiction regarding Lucozade in this article. it is stated not to be a sports drink (an energy drink, rather) and then the opposite in the final paragraph. someone please clarify this 1Rabid Monkey 23:11, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
- I changed this according to the information available in the Lucozade article, by changing the second occurrence of Lucozade to the term Lucozade Sport. 71.125.170.10 15:27, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
