The Starting Blocks
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Sports Drinks - Who are they Really For?
There are articles every day about sports drinks in schools, children drinking them in class, high school kids and college aged adults drinking them by the gallon, being offered in vending machines on school grounds, being the drink of choice, being a "fad" drink...
Sports drinks are for athletes who are exerting themselves beyond measure!
Sports drinks are NOT for students who are sitting in study hall or classes doing lessons!
Sports drinks are supposed to be full of calories and carbohydrates! Calories and carbohydrates are essential when you're burning them. When you are sitting in class at school you need brain food, NOT muscle food.
Brain food consists of, but is not limited to: Vitamin B complex (don't let anyone tell you to get an unbalanced vitamin B... B vitamins MUST be balanced), Vitamin E, Selenium and Lecithin.
Calories and carbs are NOT in the list! The powerhouse sports nutrition manufacturers may be getting a piece of the schoolhouse market, but the powerhouse sports nutrition manufacturers don't care about your health, and they certainly don't care about your athletic dreams.
When you drink a sports drink inappropriately, you are compounding tooth decay, you are compounding your possibility of high blood pressure, you are compounding your likeliness of diabetes, your are compounding your chances of heart disease and obesity, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression and.... do you really want to wait to see what next year's scientific tests come up with? Or maybe you want to wait for ten years.
If you're not running yourself silly... why are you drinking a SPORTS drink?
Sports drinks are for athletes. Not for some fad that makes the fat cats rich.
Sports drinks are for athletes who are exerting themselves beyond measure!
Sports drinks are NOT for students who are sitting in study hall or classes doing lessons!
Sports drinks are supposed to be full of calories and carbohydrates! Calories and carbohydrates are essential when you're burning them. When you are sitting in class at school you need brain food, NOT muscle food.
Brain food consists of, but is not limited to: Vitamin B complex (don't let anyone tell you to get an unbalanced vitamin B... B vitamins MUST be balanced), Vitamin E, Selenium and Lecithin.
Calories and carbs are NOT in the list! The powerhouse sports nutrition manufacturers may be getting a piece of the schoolhouse market, but the powerhouse sports nutrition manufacturers don't care about your health, and they certainly don't care about your athletic dreams.
When you drink a sports drink inappropriately, you are compounding tooth decay, you are compounding your possibility of high blood pressure, you are compounding your likeliness of diabetes, your are compounding your chances of heart disease and obesity, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression and.... do you really want to wait to see what next year's scientific tests come up with? Or maybe you want to wait for ten years.
If you're not running yourself silly... why are you drinking a SPORTS drink?
Sports drinks are for athletes. Not for some fad that makes the fat cats rich.
Labels: athletics, Carbohydrates, sports drinks
3 Comments:
Competition drives some people to become alienated from their physical capabilities. Even vegans can become distance runners and live a healthy life without ingesting chemicals and artificial stuff. Humans who become obsessed with winning at all cost lost touch with aspects of reality. They may forget a deeper purpose and make food and beveridge choices based on clouded judgment.
"obsessed with winning at all cost..." What a great statement!
It isn't the athletes fault in some cases. Lorenzo was an NBA player who put his family first. The NBA, and I assume all professional sports associations, frown on anything becoming a priority over them.
When you're paid that kind of money, it's the money that becomes king. Family can only be second or you can kiss your career goodbye.
These athletes must put themselves in a position to completely trust their managers, agents, coaches even when misinformation is passed. And the sponsors rule the team coaches, managers, etc.
So once in awhile you will see an athlete who is trying to do something good, but the sponsors money talks much louder.
I don't see this as a question of placing blame. I consider it an opportunity for each person to empower himself or herself. This emasn to take control over their lives and physical bodies and not let anything or anyone else have the final say. Its a question of will pwoer, discipline and courage.
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