Is Your Sports Drink Healthy?
There are well over 30 sports drinks on the market today
but dieticians are now questioning exactly how healthy are those sports drinks?
The ultimate benefit to the body for most of these products out on the market today is sugar and salt.
Look at many of the labels on these sports drinks today and you’ll see ingredients such as sucrose, fructose and maltodextrin. Sucrose is table sugar. Fructose is a sugar and maltodextrin is is a starch sweetener. For many of the sports drinks that are out on the market today, you can get the same benefit from a bottle of water and either baked potato or corn on the cob.
St. Louis Children’s Hospital warns sports drinks are leaded with sugar.
Congress is also getting involved in the debate.
