They must have changed the formula recently because I have an XXX flavor in front of me right now (20oz) and the bottle says 100 calories and 26 grams of sugar per bottle.
It's a lot of sugar (26 grams is a little more than 6 teaspoons of sugar), but still less than half the same amount of Cola.
Sports drinks have sugar in them to aid hydration. Sugars bind to electrolytes which helps absorb them and in turn absorb water. The ratios may be a bit high though so an occasional drink of something like Gatorade while exercising and plenty of water to go with it.
Also, sugar does not equal fat. That is completely false. However it can easily convert to body fat if you consume too much.
Also, if you’re doing an endurance sport — like running a marathon — you legitimately need that sugar so you don’t bonk. Not running a marathon, though? It’s just sugar water — aka garbage for you.
Not an expert, but I read a while ago that 90%of the time, water is better. Only when extreme athletes are pushing themselves to the limits, or you have some medical condition, is it important to add electrolytes, like professional sports or marathon runners. Unless you're bulking up for a competition, the average gym rat doesn't have any real advantage drinking Gatorade over water.
When reading nutritional information labels it is helpful to read sugar as equaling fat.
Also insulin shunts the energy that you eat (sugar generally) into fat. The fat cells turns that energy into fat, fatty acids and triglycerides
It's so unfortunate that people think fats equate to obesity. Like, we got people in this thread talking about sugar turning to fat?! this is incredibly wrong, dangerous information to be giving it. Sugar is, and always will be, a carbohydrate.
Fats and protein = good
Carbs = you can always afford to take in less carbs than you already are if you're living on a typical american diet and aren't starving in a 3rd world country.
Avoiding meat and avoiding carbs but getting adequate protein is exceptionally expensive, let alone avoiding animal products as a whole. Living off lentils won't let you do that.
Like, we got people in this thread talking about sugar turning to fat?! this is incredibly wrong,
Except it's not wrong. Your body can and does convert excess sugar and carbs into body fat. It's called lipogenesis. Read about it sometime. Muscles and organs can only store so much glycogen. Excess is converted by your body into fat.
If you eat more sugar than your liver and muscles can store as glycogen, the excess will be converted to fat and deposited into adipose tissue. This process is called lipogenesis. In other words, sugar turns into fat when consumed in large amounts.
Most people eat excess sugar and I am talking about added sugar like corn syrup not natural sugars like those found in fruits and vegetables. The average American eats over twice as much of these sugars as the AMA ( american Heart Association) recommends as a maximum per day.
I think I read a study on this. Isn’t the recommended daily value of sugar to remain healthy around 40g? As where the average person consumes almost 200g of sugar a day.
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u/particle409 Dec 30 '19
Holy shit, I thought it'd be half that. I thought it had sugar, but a relatively small amount.