Elite athletes down sports drink to help them reach new heights of performance. But for the average young person, these “health drinks” may cause them to reach new highs –on the bathroom scale.
A new study published in the journal called Obesity suggests that young people who consume one or more sports drinks each day gained more weight over a three-year period than classmates who chose other beverages.
In late May, about 6,000 researchers met in Orlando, Florida for the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine. They discussed all kinds of topics from genetics to marathon performance to sports science in the performing arts.
One topic that I didn’t expect to encounter at the conference was motor sports. But it makes perfect sense that the riders in motocross events, who zip around dirt tracks aboard motorcycles, making hard turns, and high jumps while enveloped in safety gear would qualify as athletes.
The current world records for the marathon are 2 hours, 3 minutes, 23 seconds for men, set in 2013 by Geoffrey Mutai, from Kenya, and 2 hours, 15 minutes, 25 seconds for women, set in 2003 by Paula Radcliffe, from the United Kingdom. These are incredible times — requiring male competitors to average about 4 […]
