I have a special place in my superfoodie heart for yellow-flavored Gatorade (not lemon-lime, mind you, yellow is a flavor). Just call it Love Potion No. Yellow 5, I can’t get enough of the stuff.
But, as OFFduty staff writer Jon Anderson points out this week, I may need to question my love affair with bright yellow.
Jon writes:
Everything you know about hydration is wrong. That’s the message from the prestigious British Medical Journal, which — just in time for the Olympics — has published new research that throws cold water on everything from when to tank up to the truth about sports drinks.
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The research, as well as a new book from a top expert on exercise performance that draws many of the same conclusions, is sure to unleash a tsunami of new debate within the military and without. Indeed, with warrior-athletes among the most frequent sports drink consumers — even while fighting a daily battle for hydration in hot spots around the world — the mantra of “hydrate or die” isn’t just a sales slogan for those in uniform.
