You can file this in "for what it's worth column."The report also explains that in 2008, the National Federation of State High School Associations recommended water and sports drinks for rehydration but specifically recommended abstaining from energy drinks because of potential risks, benefit absences and potential pharmaceutical drug interaction problems.
The difficulty with classic sports drinks is that even though they replace "lost electrolytes and carbohydrates during sustained strenuous exercise (and prevent) dehydration," they also contain superfluous calories, additives and sugars that promote obesity and cause tooth decay. Moreover, their replenishment can be characteristic of a short-lived glucose rush, despite the fact that they're billed as electrolyte rejuvenators.
Electrolytes are ionic chemicals or minerals in your body's fluids that conduct electrical charges. The major bodily electrolytes are sodium, calcium, potassium, chloride, phosphate, magnesium, bicarbonate and sulfate. Maintaining a balance of electrolytes is critical because they affect your body's fluid levels, cellular activity and regeneration, muscular activity, blood acidity and other crucial organ processes.
When you excessively exercise or physically exert yourself, you lose electrolytes by sweating, particularly sodium and potassium. So they need to be replenished, but plain water will not replace those electrolytes – hence the reason sports drinks offer water with added sodium, potassium and chloride (sodium provides for better bodily fluid retention, and potassium works with sodium to maintain water balance in our bodies).
But remember that those additives are a few among others, such as artificial flavorings and colorings, sucralose (an artificial sweetener) and brominated vegetable oil, which is used (by Gatorade's own admittance) "to keep flavor oils evenly distributed in the water-based sports drink." So though sports drinks might offer a quick synthetic electrolyte fix, you also get all the additives and risks that accompany their consumption.
An article by nutrition specialists at Colorado State University Cooperative Extension concludes that "sport drinks are poor sources of potassium." The article explains: "Athletes also may need more potassium to replace that lost from muscle during exercise and the smaller amount lost in sweat. Low potassium can cause muscle cramping and cardiovascular irregularities. Eating foods high in potassium can prevent these symptoms. One cup of orange juice, a banana or a potato is sufficient to replace the potassium lost during one to two hours of hard exercise."
And if you want to provide yourself with a pre-workout catalyst of energy, the fact is that eating an orange or a banana (or any other potassium-rich fruit or vegetable) and a handful of nuts and drinking a glass of water or orange juice an hour before a workout will give you a surge of sustained energy to carry you through most vigorous exercise programs.
Dr. David L. Katz, internationally renowned authority on nutrition from the Yale School of Medicine, similarly recommends pre-workout energy derived from "whole grains and lean protein such as eggs and nuts. The grains will provide carbohydrates that your body can readily convert to energy. And the protein can be put to use repairing and building new muscle following your workout, while the high-calorie but healthy fats in the nuts will fill you up quickly with less bulk."
When in doubt, give nature a chance. Drink water to hydrate and rehydrate (including during exercise). Look to natural foods for energy during a workout and replenishing your expended electrolytes afterward. Go natural, and teach your kids to do the same.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Americans overdose on energy drinks, Gatorade
Friday, June 3, 2011
Which Gop Candidates Really Care About The Constitution? - Conservative Crusader
In the 2012 GOP primaries, I have only one question for each candidate…I didn't write this, but this is the central question of the campaign as Donald Trump demonstrated.Dear candidate - What do YOU intend to do about the fraud in the White House and the utter intentional destruction of the U.S. Constitution, our economic systems and our way of life under their criminally evil assault on all things American?
If you don’t answer that question correctly, I have no second question for you! I stand for the Constitution, including Article II. If you don't, I'm not interested...
Until we have a candidate who cares about Article II, we DO NOT have a candidate who cares about the constitution! That’s simply unacceptable!
FCC Colluded with Leftist Organization Free Press to Push Government Regulation of Internet, Documents Show | Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has uncovered documents from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that indicate officials at the FCC colluded with the leftist Free Press organization to publicly push a new plan to regulate the Internet under the FCC’s so-called “net neutrality” program. Judicial Watch obtained the documents pursuant to a December 27, 2010, Freedom of Information Act request.Government corruption, in Washington?
McCain Campaign Investigated, Dismissed Obama Citizenship Rumors | The Washington Independent
McCain/Torri connection from 2009. Imagine that?After the DNC requested a dismissal of Berg’s lawsuit, he responded in a Sept. 29, 2008 filing that cited numerous Internet rumors and incorrect citations of American and international law. Berg cited “Wikipedia Italian version” and “Rainbow Edition News Letter” as evidence that Obama had not been clear about which hospital he was born in; he alleged that Obama must have been adopted by Lolo Soetoro, the Indonesian man who married Obama’s mother when the future president was five years old, because he attended elementary school in that country. Because a contemporary school record referred to Obama as “Barry Soetoro” and listed his nationality as “Indonesian,” Berg argued that there was “absolutely no way Obama could have ever regained ‘natural born’ status.”
“That’s just completely wrong,” said Mitzi Torri, an Arizona-based immigration lawyer. Torri pointed to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which sets a high bar for renunciation of American citizenship. According to the INA, an American can only forfeit his citizenship if he commits treason, if he makes a “formal declaration of allegiance to a foreign state,” or if he becomes a citizen of another country “upon his own application or upon an application filed by a duly authorized agent.”
“Berg wants to say,” said Torri, “that this document from a school in Indonesia, which has no signature, which has no standing whatsoever, is more important than Obama’s birth certificate or our immigration law.”
Torri sounds like another Obama Supreme Court nominee.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
I got her! IRS attorney Mitzi Lynn Torri is the one, who attended my oral argument and who used pseudonim “Butterfly Bieldeberg” and posted defamatory statements about me and threatened repercussions against me using her position with the federal government. Proper complaints will be filed shortly | Dr. Orly Taitz Esquire
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Barack Obama has fumbled the Arab Spring but George W Bush saw it coming – Telegraph Blogs
What I haven’t heard from anyone is an acknowledgement of George W Bush’s prescience on the subject of democracy in the Arab world. The 43rd President set out his thinking in a speech to the World Economic Forum in Sharm el Sheikh exactly three years ago. The essence of his argument was that the West’s airy dismissal of the very notion of democracy in Islam was condescending and wrong:Thanks to Ken for forwarding this article.
