[Sca-cooks] Home Made Gatorade (OOP)

[Alma Johnson]

>snip<
Plain water? If this is true, _any_ liquid will "cause water loss by turning
on urine production", even gatorade. Caffeine and alcohol are diuretics;
plain water isn't. Drinking plain water causes you to lose water? I wonder
why everyone keeps recommending that you drink several glasses of it
each day, then. . . .
>snip<

Yup, that's the point.  Drinking several glasses each day keeps your system
flushed and free of toxic products of metabolism (body breaking down foods,
drugs, etc.)  People who don't drink enough water may even have trouble with
excessive fluid retention as the body seeks to dilute the metabolic
by-products which get trapped inside cause you're not getting enough water
to
drink.  As for the caffeine and alcohol (and tea, due to the tannins) they
are far stronger drugs to the system and have a significant diuretic effect.

>snip<
You mean it does the same thing that normal fruit drinks do?
>snip<

You are jumping to erroneous conclusions here.  Most fruit drinks are going
to be high in sugar, low in actual juice contect and will have so little
electrolyte content that they won't have the same effect as a sports drink.
Lots of people mix juice in the gatorade to help the taste, but unless
you're mixing it from the powder that way, all you're doing is diluting the
percentage of electrolytes, which is what consuming the stuff is all about.

>snip<
Pfuieeee. Drink water, preferably a bit cool but not cold. People who are
exercising _extremely_ heavily, like football players, may need additional
salt/potassium/carbs, but for those of us normal folks who exercise,
water should be sufficient. In high heat conditions (like the first week of
Pennsic, say), unless you're in good shape already, don't exercise as much -
and drink more water.
>snip<

May I remind you that people who are exercising heavily will include any SCA
fighter (of any brand) in their armor and/or padding, as well as any lord or
lady in high court dress sweating up a storm because Meridies, Ansteorra,
Trimaris (and most other American addresses) aren't anything like England in
the winter (or summer for that matter) weather and temp-wise.  While
replenishing water alone may keep you alive, it certainly won't insure your
health, and therefore your enjoyment of this game we play.

Mistress Rhiannon Cathaoir-mor
South Downs, Meridies

Alma Johnson, R.Ph.