Best “All Natural” Sports Drinks
At the risk of starting with the snoringly obvious, proper daily hydration is a big part of athletic success. Especially as the mercury begins to steamroll upwards. This means you might be inclined to cram your fridge and pantry this summer with designer sports drinks like Gatorade and PowerAde that promise to hydrate and power your stride. But, before you grab one of those neon-hued designer sports drinks, read this article I wrote for the July issue of Runner’s World regarding the best performance and health-boosting beverages created by Mother Nature.
Brands to try:
Bottled Iced Tea: Honest Tea (www.honesttea.com). A huge range of flavors that are really tasty and not doused in high fructose corn syrup. In particular, the unsweetened Just Green Iced Tea tastes like, well, tea not sickeningly sweet sugar water.
Coconut Water: O.N.E (onenaturalexperience.com) or Zico (www.zico.com) offer up naturally sweet 100% coconut water in go-anywhere tetra packs (onenaturalexperience.com)
Cherry Juice: CherryPharm 100% Cherry Juice is a strictly tested Cornell University creation made with 50 antioxidant loaded whole cherries (cherrypharm.com).
Vegetable Juice: R.W. Knudson Verry Veggie packs in 9 different vegetables and heaps of lycopene. (knudsenjuices.com).
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Thanks for the article. Sports Nutrition can be very helpful but you should do research before you decide which one you are gonna use.
Tart cherry juice can be made into a sports drink using my homemade, natural Fruit-Ade sports drink recipe. This shows how to dilute cherry juice to the correct sugar concentration for most rapid absorption of the liquid into your body.
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