I really love coconut water but it's expensive. Anyone have any experience, personal or otherwise that tells me it's worth the extra cost vs. sports drinks? Life's tough when you're on a budget.
I really love coconut water but it's expensive. Anyone have any experience, personal or otherwise that tells me it's worth the extra cost vs. sports drinks? Life's tough when you're on a budget.
coconut water is actually the same electrolyte content as blood - at least pretty close. they used it as emergency blood transfusions in WW2. standard sports drinks are drenched with additives and poisonous food colorings. any more info needed.
ps - don't listen to the med students that will come on here and tell you that I went to chiropractic school. I am giving you advice like it is.
I think 'Poisonous' is a bit of a stretch. But thanks for the historical tidbit. Interesting!
have you ever looked up what the food colorings can do? adhd, depression, etc.....plus all the other chemicals in the sports drinks. a good exercise to do sometime is to take a food product and list all ingredients (see label)..then look up where the ingredient came from and what else its used for. quite interesting...we had to do that at chiropractic school. lol jk
Dude, you are REALLY stretching....my dad is a MD. All this hype about "toxins" and such is overdone. Let it go. You would have to drink hundreds of gallons of sports drinks with gallons of food coloring to reach any point of toxicity. I'm asking for people's experiences re: recovery, performance, etc. Don't need a quack opinion, however entitled to it you may be.
Ingredients Powerade:
Water, glucose, fructose, citric acid, mineral salts (sodium chloride, magnesium chloride, calcium chloride, potassium phosphate), flavourings, acidity regulator (potassium citrate), stabilisers (acacia gum, glycerol esters of wood rosins), sweeteners (sucralose, acesulfame K), colour (brilliant blue).
Ingredients Coconut water:
Coconut water
rule of thumb: if you can't pronounce it then it's bad for you.
Toxins are what get us all in the end. Toxin build up over the course of your life is what leads to disease and breakdown of the organs. There is nothing overdone about it. Controlling toxins in your environment is always a good idea. One doesn't have to be obsessive about it, but avoiding the obvious things is helpful in the "long run". No disrespect to your dad, but MDs, like myself, are still not diagnosing disease correctly. They're not examing the root cause. Instead they're applying a band aid approach, which in the end is never successful. That's why more and more people are turning to alternative sources of treatment and healing.
HeyHay wrote:
Dude, you are REALLY stretching....my dad is a MD. All this hype about "toxins" and such is overdone. Let it go. You would have to drink hundreds of gallons of sports drinks with gallons of food coloring to reach any point of toxicity. I'm asking for people's experiences re: recovery, performance, etc. Don't need a quack opinion, however entitled to it you may be.
Chocolate milk
chocolate milk is NOT a good recovery drink. The dairy industry does a good job of promoting it as such. they brainwash kids into thinking milk is good for bones and recovery. nothing could be further from the truth. it is all propaganda. using famous people to attract kids to this bad beverage. ....but the the problem with it is all of the live enzymes have been killed and so have much of the vitamins that was originally in the milk before pasteurization. Then they put vitamins in it. There is something called vitamin synergy which means that it is the interaction of all the vitamins and enzymes. for example, the calcium depends on vitamin d and fit d depends on vitamin k2, and that depends on the b vitamins...etc. When you isolate vitamins you do not get the interaction effect of all the vitamins. thus choc milk is not a good recovery drink. instead for for a all plant based protein smoothie with hemp, goji berries, spiralina, etc. That protein from plants gets right the cells.
and to the OP...if your dad is an MD why are you out asking wackos like me for advice.
If all the hype of toxins is overdone then let me ask you this?
Why are many of them banned in other countries?
Examples - mercury dental amalgams (its toxic on the dentists chair but not in your mouth...thats nonsense), food additives, GMOS, etc
There is a reason they are regulated in other countries and NOT IN USA. Because we are pro-business and no pro-health in this country. And no our country is not any better with knowledge and resources.
not a med student wrote:
chocolate milk is NOT a good recovery drink. The dairy industry does a good job of promoting it as such. they brainwash kids into thinking milk is good for bones and recovery. nothing could be further from the truth. it is all propaganda. using famous people to attract kids to this bad beverage. ....but the the problem with it is all of the live enzymes have been killed and so have much of the vitamins that was originally in the milk before pasteurization. Then they put vitamins in it. There is something called vitamin synergy which means that it is the interaction of all the vitamins and enzymes. for example, the calcium depends on vitamin d and fit d depends on vitamin k2, and that depends on the b vitamins...etc. When you isolate vitamins you do not get the interaction effect of all the vitamins. thus choc milk is not a good recovery drink. instead for for a all plant based protein smoothie with hemp, goji berries, spiralina, etc. That protein from plants gets right the cells.
and to the OP...if your dad is an MD why are you out asking wackos like me for advice.
Oh boy, another hippie who's been reading too many paleo or vegan websites. Here's a comparison of chocolate milk and a popular commercial recovery drink.
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/muscle-gain/an-objective-comparison-of-chocolate-milk-and-surge-recovery.htmlWhile "not a med student" may be overly passionate about all this, I have to agree with him and the above MD. Industry promotes the fact that these substances are safe while simultaneously squashing research into their harmfulness (ex. aspartame). Further, nutritionism is the faulty belief that foods and liquids are nothing more than the sum of all their macro and micro nutriets (that we can identify). We don't have a good enough grasp, scientifically, to understand how all these additional things interact and affect our bodies. Can't isolate the variables and get meaningful results.
I don't want to sound like I'm regurgitating Michael Pollan, but the guy spits truth about our current food system situation. If you don't think all the ingredients you can't pronounce are bad for you, you're living with your eyes closed. Most people are, to the benefit of Monsanto, Frito-Lay, Gatorade, you name it.
Dude you do what you want. If you want to fall into the trap of the dairy industry and drink chic milk - fine. But let me ask you this...
we consume so much dairy in this country and have more stress fractures and osteoporosis..why?
The Kenyans drink very little milk - other than mothers milk at birth and rarely get stress fractures? Why
People are so brainwashed and nobody knows what they are talking about. Green juice and carrot juice combined have all the enzymes and nutrients needed to lodge the calcium right into your bones. Calcium is not absorbable in milk. The milk was not intended for human consumption. It was intended to make a baby cow grow to be 750 pounds. Milk drinking will make you fat. Recover with plant source proteins.
Yeah I will admit I am overly passionate about all this. Yeah and the aspartame is not a diet drink. It will make a person crave carbohydrates and make them fat. It is also a neuro toxin. Pilots can't drink diet coke when they fly due to seizure risk. But no one wants to step on the toes of Monsanto.
By the way...there are a lot of MD's here. I am just an idiot with a BA in public health. :)
not a med student = a bit crazy and obsessed.
comparing chic milk to a commercial drink does nothing for me. why? because they are both poor choices. recover naturally
nuts and a banana
plant proteins - hemp, maca, spiraling, etc
oat meal with nuts
agreed. I am crazy. I also love to study and read nutritional things. Thats pretty much all I do all day long. i am just interested in how natural foods impact our health versus processed junk.
I for one will attempt to answer the OP's question without hysterical posturing about toxins or whattheeff, or who can "out MD" each other.
I love coconut water. I'd rather drink it instead of sports drinks. When I drink gatorade or poweraid I always dilute 1:1 to insure I get enough volume simply because it does such of good job of making me feel quenched that I don't drink enough quantity of it. Coconut water is pricey. I've had some luck going to the local dollar store and finding "One" brand for a buck/small serving. Having said that, I will eat the extra cost because I greatly prefer the taste. I will drink about equal quantities of both for hydration purposes, but I will always finish up with coconut water for the taste. Since I'm taking in equal quantities of both I can't say whether one benefits my recovery more than the other, but I know which taste I prefer.
not a med student wrote:
Dude you do what you want. If you want to fall into the trap of the dairy industry and drink chic milk - fine. But let me ask you this...
we consume so much dairy in this country and have more stress fractures and osteoporosis..why?
The Kenyans drink very little milk - other than mothers milk at birth and rarely get stress fractures?
Every hear of the Masai warriors?