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Eight Years in the Lab: The Ideal Sports Drink
Stacy T. Sims, an environmental exercise physiologist and sports nutritionist at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, has spent the past eight years testing the effects of sports drinks on dozens of active people, from average Joes to elite athletes, in an effort to find out twhat constitutes the perfect sports drink. "What I discovered is that, over an hour of exercise, everyone requires higher sodium content and lower sugar content to facilitate th emost efficient movement of liquid from your stomach to your blood," she says. "And none of the current drinks on the market contains those correct amounts." During her search for the optimal formula. Sims tested hers against the leading brands by having subjects drink from unlabeled water bottles while running for 30 minutes; the testers then did a one-kilometer race. Subjects who chugged Sim's drink - the recipe for which she's sharing exclusively with Men's Journal before it's brought to the market by a yet-to-be-named beverage company - ran 15 to 20 percent faster.
-Berne Broudy
THE SIMS DRINK
- 32 oz water
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 sachets of Emergen-C
- 1/2 packet of unsweetened Kool-Aid powder for flavoring
(Note: yung Emergen-C isang packet ng 1000mg of Vitamin C. So kailangan mo ng 2000mg na in total)
source: Men's Journal August 2010 issue
Stacy T. Sims, an environmental exercise physiologist and sports nutritionist at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, has spent the past eight years testing the effects of sports drinks on dozens of active people, from average Joes to elite athletes, in an effort to find out twhat constitutes the perfect sports drink. "What I discovered is that, over an hour of exercise, everyone requires higher sodium content and lower sugar content to facilitate th emost efficient movement of liquid from your stomach to your blood," she says. "And none of the current drinks on the market contains those correct amounts." During her search for the optimal formula. Sims tested hers against the leading brands by having subjects drink from unlabeled water bottles while running for 30 minutes; the testers then did a one-kilometer race. Subjects who chugged Sim's drink - the recipe for which she's sharing exclusively with Men's Journal before it's brought to the market by a yet-to-be-named beverage company - ran 15 to 20 percent faster.
-Berne Broudy
THE SIMS DRINK
- 32 oz water
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 sachets of Emergen-C
- 1/2 packet of unsweetened Kool-Aid powder for flavoring
(Note: yung Emergen-C isang packet ng 1000mg of Vitamin C. So kailangan mo ng 2000mg na in total)
source: Men's Journal August 2010 issue
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