Midknight Review -- new and revised: Water versus sports drinks and the EU's ban on bottle water claims.

Lots of folks will shake their heads in amazed disagreement, this headline - EU bans claim that water prevents dehydration. Understand that it is not the water that is the issue, here, but the claim that water is the quick fix answer to your hydration issues.

Speaking as a layman, but a 30 year wrestling coach, as well, I understand the EU's prohibition against this advertisement strategy. In sports circles, it is common knowledge that water is not the quick answer to dehydration. Athletes lose electrolytes when they sweat. Magnesium, calcium, chloride, potassium, sodium, and phosphorus are electrolytes and water contains none of these elements. Drinking water beats nothing. "90% of your body is water," as they say, but if you want to re-hydrate your athlete quickly, the sports drink is your answer. The difference between water and a sports drink is this thing called electrolytes. Whatever the chemical reasons, a sports drink is "absorbed" into the body much quicker than plain water. Understand that a large glass of water will prevent overnight cramping in the legs. And, water does hydrate the body. The key word in this matter is the word "quickly." Electrolytes attract electrolytes. That is why sports drinks work more quickly than plain water.

Original Commentary by Coach Smithson

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

Water versus sports drinks and the EU's ban on bottle water claims.

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