All About Sports Drinks

Gatorade was started in 1965, being the result of a collaboration four doctors and the Florida Gators assistant coach. Since the start of this sports beverage and others,  Gatorade can be very beneficial in helping hydrate the body, but it depends on the situation when deciding if you should drink it. Some of the benefits of drinking Gatorade or other sports drinks are the attraction of the taste and replacement of electrolytes. 
   Some of the more obvious reasons people choose sports drinks are the appealing tastes, bright colors, and thirst-quenching flavors of the drink. Compared to water with little to no taste, drinks have  delicious flavors which appeal to the drinker. The taste is actually proven to be more effective in keeping an athlete properly hydrated than water because of its appeal.
   Celebrity endorsement is a way that drink companies convince kids to drink their drinks. Kids will definitely want to drink that brightly-colored sports drink when they see their favorite basketball player chug one during an intense game. Also, the millions of dollars spent towards advertising these drinks do not go to waste.
   A main reason children choose Gatorade is that the sugars in the drink help energize someone after a hot baseball game or soccer tournament. However, the amount of exercise it takes to get rid of the big amounts of sugar found in sports drinks does not cancel out. 

Sports drinks are not all bad for you. They can help energize and hydrate active exercisers during a workout. The electrolytes and carbohydrates found in these drinks claim to boost the athlete's energy. It is also found that drinking sports drinks balance the body's fluids. Your body will thank you if you drink some after a long game of soccer in the burning hot sun. On the other hand, if you are not being active for about an hour, you are doing more bad than good. When you drink these drinks, you are just providing your body sugar that will not be canceled by activity. This is important to know because studies have proven most consumers are more likely to be playing a video game inside than playing and running around outside. It is also believed that these sports drinks are a key factor of child obesity today. Results of sports drink consumption for inactive people is weight gain and high blood pressure.