“Gatorade, PowerAde, electrolyte pumped-up sports drinks… they’re good for you, right?
You see athletes chugging down bottles of the neon-colored liquid in every ad and real life, surely they do something, and they do. They help you maintain your body’s balance of electrolytes during or after periods of heavier exercise.
But when you look closer, you’re really just paying an outrageous price for glorified, brightly colored, sugar water.
An overload of processed and refined sweetener (in the case of sports drinks, high-fructose corn syrup) is never a good thing. And while artificial flavors and colors don’t technically do much to your health, a part of me just shies away from the idea of ingesting things that are “fake”…
