New York Times says Sports Drinks ARE good for kids!!

They say yes, then they actually give a lot of reasons why sports drinks are horrible;   No one suggests that, outside of fields or courts, sports drinks are wise. “These are not health foods,” Clark says. “They’re fancy sugar water. You see kids having them with their pizza at lunch. That’s not a good idea.” Sports drinks have been linked with obesity and tooth decay. They’re also expensive.”

The article also says that, “What they found was that the young athletes, aged 9-16, didn’t drink enough. Most of them, in fact, had arrived at the camps dehydrated to one degree or another, and proceeded to dry themselves out far more over the course of the four-day camps”.

The point they make is that kids don’t like water, aren’t used to drinking it…so because they will actually drink it they should have it.  That’s crazy.  It the same mentality I hear from moms with kids with allergies, “Well, they won’t eat veggies, they only like mac and cheese”.

I say that unless they kids have jobs and cars, the parents are supposed to be in control of what they eat!  By setting examples, not buying soft drinks and sports drinks, by stopping eating so many carbs!

What they are actually saying here is that kids are not used to drinking water. The answer isn’t to give them chemicals in water (sports drinks)! No one, including kids has any room each day for empty calories and carbs. Americans are addicted to carbs, hence our obesity rates.

Fruit juices are healthier than sodas and sports drinks but are still all carbs.

The healthiest diet is one based on organic grass-fed or free range meats, butter, coconut oil, eggs, vegetables and very small servings of fruit. Fruit juice is just another way to main-line sugar.

Carbs are killing us, get back to a Traditional Human Diet. Teach your children to drink water; by doing it yourself by example. And never give your kids soft drinks, or sports drinks. I raised 5 children on NO soft drinks, EVER. They are all grown and not one of them drinks soft drinks.

Read the article here;  Phys Ed: Are Sports Drinks Actually Good for Kids?