Why should sports drinks not have sodium?!
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Actually, sports drinks should have sodium especially if you are working out or playing sports for longer then an hour. Sodium is one of the electrolytes required by our body.
When we sweat we lose sodium which can lead to muscle cramps and low blood pressure and sports drinks with sodium are the quickest and easist way to replenish this.
Sodium is salt.
because that's like salt, which dries you up aka: it will make you more thirsty.
Sodium will make your more thirsty! Its a complete rip off. Your drinking it but you'll only want more. Its a way for company's to make more money, so you'll keep buying more drinks them more you drink.
http://sportsmedicine.about.com/od/hydra...
who says? sodium is a necessary nutrient that needs to be replenished when we perspire. too much isn't good, especially if you have high blood pressure, but it's found in many, many foods. people who work outdoors in the heat often take salt tablets to replenish the salt lost thru perspiration.
Beacuse of what it does to your body! That can kill some people. If your drinking a sports drink you're drinking it to give you energy or keep you healthy and sodium would just destroy what it's trying to do.
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salt drys you out. Salt water won'y cure thirst,in fact makes it worse.
Actually they should have a little sodium in them, what you don't want is too much sugar in those things.
Sugar will act as a diuretic and will dehydrate you very quickly. While you're losing a small amount of sodium and other electrolytes through your sweat when you work out. You need to replace these salts or else your nervous system goes all out of whack.
They should. Sodium is excreted in sweat and needs to be replenished. What should happen is that people should stop drinking sports drinks instead of water... and only drink them if they actually workout long enough to need it.
When I cycle, I use plain water unless I'm cycling longer than 90 minutes.
sodium = salt.
salt = more dehydration, thus causing you to get dehydrated much faster/ more cramps from the absorption of all the water in the stomach.
http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/sma/sma_f...
remember that you wouldn't be drinking milk before, during, or after a hard workout..that would make you get more cramps.