Sports drink consumption it is precisely eliminate the benefits of Sports

In a variety of sports drink advertisement (sports drink) on television or other media, consumers are often treated to images of the activity of a number of people exercising and when the fatigue will drink ads star sports drink.

But a group of researchers from Oxford University is less agreed with ad jargon that sports drinks a lot of scatter in various media. After a workout, better drink white water course, said the researchers.

"Consume such products it will make you need to exercise more, play more football or to the gym more often because caloric big enough," said Dr. Matthew Thompson from the Oxford Centre for Evidence Based Medicine such as reported by the telegraph, Friday (20/7/2012).

A number of products in the United Kingdom's leading sports drinks such as Lucozade Energy (380 ml) contains 266 calories or other products that use artificial sweeteners, Lucozade Body Fuel (500 ml) contains 135 calories.

This conclusion obtained Dr. Thompson and his colleagues after observing an increase in related marketing claim 431 performance in the use of physical sports products, including 104 of sports drinks and protein shakes.

In fact, many sports drinks manufacturers who cannot show proof for his claims, although GlaxoSmithKline is able to provide evidence to file 174 one of its products i.e. Lucozade. But of the many claims, researchers can only find three higher-quality studies with a low risk of bias related to the effectiveness of a sports drink to increase endurance or energy recovery after exercise.

This study also showed that a sports drink is a product most often marketed with claims is capable of improving durability, but behind that researchers insist that this evidence could not direlevansikan on everyone because ujicobanya is only done on athletes, not ordinary people.

In response to this study, the British Soft Drinks Association spokesman stated, "a sports drink Product has information on the label include nutrition, including caloric. The existence of this product to help people who are exercising routine so that their performance is better and recover faster, in addition to encouraging people to more exercise. "

"But could not be denied if one of the factors that can help improve the performance sports drink are consuming the right is in the right amount," he added.

This study has been published in the British Medical Journal.