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Sports drinks vs. energy drinks

Can someone explain how sports drinks are different from energy drinks? Is there even a difference? --Lowellian 00:36, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)

Sports drinks are intended to replenish electrolytes, sugar, water, and other nutrients, and are usually isotonic (containing the same proportions as found in the human body). Energy drinks simply provide lots of sugar and caffeine, with no healthful purpose. --ηυωρ]] 01:57, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I'd have to disagree that ALL energy drinks have no "healthful" purpose. Some energy drinks do intentionally provide healthfull ingredients such a Vitamin C, B6, B12, etc.. --Cab88 19:29, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Adding some vitamins doesn't make a drink healthy, that's just plain marketing. If your diet is sufficiently rich (in terms of variation, not calories), your body has enough vitamins and there is no additional effect by those drinks except that they make you fat by their high sugar content. And if you already have an unbalanced diet, such energy drinks will only make the situation worse. 92.228.15.59 (talk) 17:39, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Is it really true that sports drinks are usually isotonic? As I understand it, Gatorade, the most popular sports drink, is not, nor are any of the Gatorade clones (Powerade, etc.). ] 02:20, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Yes sports drins are usually isotonic, in fact i would argue that by defination 'true' sports drinks have to be isotoic. Gatorade and clones are isotonic, but in much lower levels than specialty sports drinks. PhatePunk 10:41, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

The human body is 0.15% sodium, Gatorade is 0.04% sodium....this is not isotonic! (The difference is even larger with potassium) Constan69 (talk) 10:38, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Snack beverage

This might seem petty dumb, but can we define "snack beverage"? ~ Dpr 19:24, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Late Night Drinking

Energy drinks, to me. Are only good for recovering from a sickness or staying up late playing computer games with friends.

I'd reckon if there was an energy drink targeted at internet nerds (such as myself). It would make billions of dollars.

Snack Beverage Defined?

A drink taken only because the drinker felt like it? or u r to f'n fat

Stub classification

Maybe the article is already good enough for not being classified as a stub. What do you think?

What about a Criticism Section

I've been in a gym where they instructed to avoid such drinks when a person's diet is already balanced mainly for they contain high ammounts of sugar. It sounds very logical. --161.76.99.106 17:53, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Controlling Carbs to moderate weight is simplistic and leads people to making unhealthy diet choices! People active in sports need carbs.

Ye, sugar isn't "evil" but balanced diets from most doctors and nutricionists usually don't add more than what is contained naturally in other foods. In addition, I don't see many olympic champions drinking power drinks, it's usually only water.

It depends. If you're trying to lose weight, walking on the treadmill for half an hour, then consuming a 300 calorie energy drink is taking one step forward and two steps back, since you probably only burned 300 calories while on the treadmill. Smart water(tm) or some of the other "fitness waters" would be a better choice, since they replenish electrolytes without giving you a bunch of calories. Someone running a marathon, or doing cross-country sprinting for hours at a time, does in fact need all those extra carbs. ThePedanticPrick 15:01, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

contradiction

there is a contradiction regarding Lucozade in this article. it is stated not to be a sports drink (an energy drink, rather) and then the opposite in the final paragraph. someone please clarify this 1Rabid Monkey 23:11, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

I changed this according to the information available in the Lucozade article, by changing the second occurrence of Lucozade to the term Lucozade Sport. 71.125.170.10 15:27, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

accelerade

According to accelerade's website, it is a Mott's product. 72.8.116.88 11:02, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Using sports drinks for rehydration during illness??

I've changed the last sentence in the article - I can't find any sources for the old statement and remotely, it could be dangerous - sports drinks do not have anything close to the same composition as real medical oral rehydration solutions (eg. Pedialyte, or WHO Oral Rehydration Solution packets). I know sports drinks are commonly used this way, but there's no studies for safety, effectiveness, etc.; they could possibly be marginally more effective but the amount of Na and K is all wrong (the proportion of one salt relative to the other is important), and bicarbonate and calcium are missing.

As an example Pedialyte contains 101 mg Na, 77 mg K, 10 mg Ca, 10 mg PO, and 2.45 g sugar per 250 ml (8 oz). Gatorade contains 96 mg Na, 32 mg K and 14.5 g sugar per serving - note the high amount of sugar, and the lack of potassium relative to sodium.

I referenced a page at a popular family medicine site that mentions the use of sports drinks for rehydration. I couldn't find any studies on using sports drinks for rehydration, however; what's out there is "expert opinion" at best.

vitamin water

vitamin water is not a sports drink. if you look at the ingredients it does not qualify it for that status; its colored, sugared water. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Troyeseffigy (talk • contribs) 21:50, August 28, 2007 (UTC)

Clean Up

I have added information back in that was completely removed in the last edit. Also, I added more information and references in an effort to clean up the page and make it more substantial.--Neyoung (talk) 18:34, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Continued Skirting Around the Main Issue

I originally came to this article hoping to answer some questions I had about sports drinks. Instead I wound up disappointed by the content and made some edits. When I first read the article, the overconsumption section came off as trivial and I wasn't sure why it was up front. So I moved it down the page. As I browsed some of the references and links, I decided to overhaul the overconsumption section, largely based on the actual Water Intoxication article. I was hoping to include some quantitative measure of how much water must be consumed to cause water intoxication (mainly to quantify how low the risk is). But, I couldn't find a reference with numbers for water intoxication due to poor rehydration during exercise. The 10L/short period comment someone else had added without citation was nice, but the water intoxication article gave that number for "water drinking contests" only, which have nothing to do with sports drinks.

I think the core of what this article should be or should link to is a discussion of the importance of proper hydration to exercise and how sports drinks contribute to that proper hydration. Once that core is in place, then sure, add sections on the difference between sports drinks and other drinks, criticism of sports drinks, nutritional value, use of sports drinks for non-athletic rehydration, etc. And as for that water intoxication section that I just rewrote, I think it's much more important to discuss the effects and dangers of DEhydration and in particular how it can lead to heat illness. With that in mind, I'll add some links to the See Also section. --Error9312 (talk) 23:26, 17 August 2008 (UTC)