One thing to remember about Gatorade is that it was the absolute first rehydration liquid on the market, waaay before Pedialyte. I remember being a kid in the early 70’s and being forced to drink Gatorade when I had the flu (added bonus that it was a home town product, I’m from Gainesville, FL). And back in those days, they only had that horrible green flavor; to this day, I can’t drink that flavor without feeling nauseous.
Is Gatorade a sham? Only in the sense that it’s not a miracle drink that will magically improve your sports performance. It’s just a good electrolyte relacement drink that will only benefit you if you happen to be working out strenuously in hot weather. (There’s a reason it was invented for football players in Gainesville, FL. Summer days are usually in the upper 90’s and the humidity is almost always in the 90% range)
It’s no trick, it’s basically the same thing as gatorade. At a ren fair, those in the elaborate costumes are usually sweating a lot more than those not in costume. Simple physiology. When you sweat, you lose water AND electrolytes (mostly sodium in the form of salt.) A nice dill pickle has lots of salt in it, so it makes sure you stay hydrated better, same as gatorade for marathoners, triatheltes, etc…
Basically, when you sweat a lot and lose salts, the osmotic pressure in your cells goes down. However, you’re taking in lots of water, so the pressure in your blood goes up from the added fluid. Since your kidneys won’t be able to remove as much water from your blood as you take in, your cells take some water from your blood as well to try and balance out the pressures. But, since you keep losing salts, your cells keep trying to take more water from your blood, so you lose water from your blood and get thirsty, and drink more water. Eventually, you will have lost too much of your electroytes and things that need electrolytes (like, say, the nervous sytem, muscles, and just about everything else) stop working right and cells, being too swollen from all that water, start to burst, and you start to die.
Well besides Pedialyte is medicine and gatoraid is a sugar drink, what flavor Pedialyte did you taste. Grape is the best by far, Cherry is also OK (generic only), Orange is icky and unflavored is horriable. And when I say grape is the best, I mean it tastes pretty darn good. If you had a bad grape flavor you got a spoiled one.
I’ve never really liked Gatorade that much, so, although it’s sold here, I go for the Pocari Sweat. I know it’s a gross name, but it tastes good and has all the right stuff. When I lived in Japan, I would drink Post-Water until they stopped selling it in my area.
Your first point is moot- plenty of kid medicines are full of sugar.
We tried orange first, big mistake. Then we tried grape but it just tasted gross too, I don’t know. We even tried a “pediatric electrolyte replacement drink” made by an apple juice company, and that was icky too.
Ohhh… see, the pickles at that SCA event tasting better than usual should have been the red flag for me that I wasn’t nearly as hydrated as I thought, despite my drinking water nearly non-stop that day. By the time evening came around, I was miserable, and honestly can’t remember most of what I did that weekend (except for dragging a tub of water to the horses, and being used to demonstrate what one of the girls in our SCA group refers to as her “Swishing hips” technique of distracting a male fencing opponent. (A technique that, in her case, was quite effective in distracting me at the very least)
Ohhh… see, the pickles at that SCA event tasting better than usual should have been the red flag for me that I wasn’t nearly as hydrated as I thought, despite my drinking water nearly non-stop that day. By the time evening came around, I was miserable, and honestly can’t remember most of what I did that weekend (except for dragging a tub of water to the horses, and being used to demonstrate what one of the girls in our SCA group refers to as her “Swishing hips” technique of distracting a male fencing opponent. (A technique that, in her case, was quite effective in distracting me at the very least)
Ohhh… see, the pickles at that SCA event tasting better than usual should have been the red flag for me that I wasn’t nearly as hydrated as I thought, despite my drinking water nearly non-stop that day. By the time evening came around, I was miserable, and honestly can’t remember most of what I did that weekend (except for dragging a tub of water to the horses, and being used to demonstrate what one of the girls in our SCA group refers to as her “Swishing hips” technique of distracting a male fencing opponent. (A technique that, in her case, was quite effective in distracting me at the very least)
My guess would be because dehydration messes up brain cells just like it messes up muscle cells. Muscles will cramp and tremor whereas that taste effect is what happens to the brain cells that process taste when they are dehydrated. FWIW, the old idea of a tongue map showing different areas of the tongue for different tastes is no longer part of the accepted notions of how taste works.
I once had a bad concussion and for about a week everything tasted like burnt oranges to me. It was a real drag.
Sodium and potassium are the electrolytes the body needs. I’m not an expert; I wish one of the Doper doctors would stop by. But what I understand is that you need salt and potassium in amounts that are somewhat similat to the amounts normally found in the body which is presumably what Gatorade is designed to do.
There have been actual studies, it was invented in my hometown and my dad has met the researcher who originally concocted the stuff. I’m not sure what you think is so scammy. Electrolytes are more helpful than pure water if you’re sweating an awful lot; otherwise, in extreme cases, you could develop hyponatremia. Gatorade is an easy way to get those electrolytes. Yeah, water and some food with salt and potassium might be cheaper but Gatorade is easier and more convenient in many cases.
I don’t know why, but I can affirm that it does. The first weekend I worked Faire, I tasted the yummiest, cruchiest sweetest dill pickle I’d ever had. I spent most of the next 9 weeks looking for that sweet pickle again, only to be disappointed every time by the relatively mundane dills I found everywhere. Of course, the pickles hadn’t changed at all. I had just learned how to stay hydrated better. :smack: (So tempting to try to get dehydrated again for that yummy sweet dill experience…but I think the first aid people would kill me!)
As we all know there are quite a few actors and models who make money because they bear a resemblance to some much better known actress/model, so they appear on talk shows and auto sales center openings, doing and saying things the Real Thing wouldn’t actually do or say.
Well, given that, you’d figure there would be a thriving industry of porn models and actresses ALSO doing things that the Real Thing would never actually do (on camera, for less than a couple million bucks). But there isn’t. A Google search revealed NO websites advertising porn models who looked EXACTLy like thus-and-such who did THAT, and also THE OTHER.
Now, I found a harcore film that advertises a porn lookalike, notably a January 2006 release starring “Pamela Sandersin” said to look like “Pamela Anderson” and doing the things Pamela Anderson has been known to do, and probably a lot more. But that’s about it. And in a Web that literally TEEMS with Photoshopped pics of every last hottie in Hollywood’s face pasted over a pornstar doing various brands of nasty, and pics of every hottie in Hollywood based on vidcaps and stills from some flick they did when they were young and didn’t know any better (they say) the question begs to be asked: Why isn’t some Eurohottie trading on a resemblance to Jessica Alba/Lindsay Lohan/Kirsten Dunst/whomever and her willingness to do all sorts of stuff they wouldn’t? Why aren’t a LOT of porny hotties doing that?
I would imagine that there has to be some legal reason why this has never happened, 'cause porn people are known for being willing to do about anything that won’t land them in jail or the poorhouse if there’s a buck in it, and there’s GOTTA be bucks in that …
The amount of potassium is small compared to the amount of sodium because blood/body concentrations of potassium are small (blood concentration 3.0-5.5 mEq/L) and of sodium are larger (blood concentration 135-145 mEq/L). Your body needs more sodium than potassium, and this is reflected in losses due to sweat.