Balderstone made history on 15 September 1975 by taking part in a County Championship match and a Football League game on the same day.[7] Balderstone was 51 not out against Derbyshire at the end of day two of Leicestershire’s match at Chesterfield. After close of play he changed into his football kit to play for Doncaster Rovers in an evening match 30 miles away (a 1–1 draw with Brentford). He then returned to Chesterfield the following morning to complete a century and take three wickets to help wrap up Leicestershire’s first ever County Championship title.
Well, that’s why they’re better than Gatorade, right?
Twinkies work as short-term nutrition, but if they were solely packaged and marketed as some kind of “Highly Scienced Sports Food” over much, much better options, it would still be a bit of a scandal.
Somehow, I find athletes buying breast milk more disturbing than drinking cow’s milk. Really, it’s more about want than need, otherwise nobody would ever be weaned and move on to other sources of nutrition.
It’s popular in some countries, people enjoy it, and that’s fine. However, in areas of the world where this practice never started it must seem as natural a choice for adults as drinking soda.
Doesn’t work as well for medical emergencies doesn’t mean the same as doesn’t work. Especially since it’s not meant for medical emergencies. Sweeteners in these things are necessary to keep them palatable. And an important part of the mix is Glucose. The drug store ones just use artificial sweetener for taste, so they have less sugar over all than original Gatorade. Most of the more recent sports drinks are a lot worse calorie and sugar wise including the thousand variations of Gatorade that turn you into Michael Jordon with lighting bolts and mysterious flavors like “Frosty Mist Giant”. But the original stuff was developed by an actual university science and medical department to be an electrolyte solution. It was just specifically for non-medical situations, and kind of predates all the medical ones. IIRC it was inspired by early IV bags. So it does what it says on the tin. We can just do better now.
Agent O: Your obsession with chocolate milk indicates that you might be involved in some sort of temporal fracture. Agent J: I don’t know what you’re talking about. Agent O: Chocolate milk relieves temporal fracture headaches.
I had Gatorade when I was a kid and the stuff was horrible…wayyy too salty. A few decades later it was less salty, more sweet and so much better. Maybe the old crap was technically better at hydrating, but if you don’t drink it, it can’t hydrate you.
A basic oral rehydration therapy solution can also be prepared when packets of oral rehydration salts are not available. It can be made using 6 level teaspoons (25.2 grams) of sugar and 0.5 teaspoon (2.9 grams) of salt in 1 litre of water.[16][17] The molarratio of sugar to salt should be 1:1 and the solution should not be hyperosmolar.[18] The Rehydration Project states, “Making the mixture a little diluted (with more than 1 litre of clean water) is not harmful.”[19]
The first time Robert Cade tasted his specially formulated sports drink, he vomited. It tasted disgusting. One person compared it to urine, another to toilet bowl cleaner. This, perhaps, should not have been surprising. The clear drink consisted mostly of water, fructose, and replacements for sodium and potassium—sodium citrate and monopotassium. This wasn’t ideal. The drink was supposed to make the University of Florida’s football players feel better, not worse. It needed to taste better.
I remember that one from way back; apparently a Whole Foods one-off that drew well-deserved criticism, a bizarre variation on the “re-packaging” theme used by many food markets to profitably address spoilage and items they can’t move: In-Store Restaurants.
Really, it’s more about want than need, otherwise nobody would ever be weaned and move on to other sources of nutrition.
