Sandie7
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Are they ok to drink before and after diving ? Are they better than water ?
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Sugar, yes. Salt, au contraire.Sports drinks are pretty much universally unnecessary. They have way more electrolytes and sugar than the average person doing normal outdoor activity need.
Not quite. If you're excercising vigorously, you actually need more salt than they put in those sports drinks. But if the manufacturers put enough salt in the drink to really replace the salts you lose through heavy perspiration, it'd taste brackish and people wouldn't buy it because of the crappy taste.Manufacturers make them the way they do because if they made them in a way that really was good for you, they would barely have any taste, so they make the drinks more hypertonic (high concentrations of salt and sugar).