New research shows that chocolate milk has a greater impact on performance than regular sports beverages when high
school athletes drink it for recovery.
Not exact matches
While energy
drinks have become extremely popular among adolescents and young adults in recent years, with many young
athletes seeing them as a quick and easy way to maximize athletic performance, many groups, including the National Federation of High
School Associations (NFHS), recommend against their use for re-hydration and warn that consumption may hurt not help athletic performance by causing side effects as bloating, abdominal cramping, diarrhea, light headedness, and impaired sleep.
The Virginia High
School League's executive committee voted to ban the use of energy
drinks by student
athletes during games and practices.
In the cafeteria of the
school where I teach, the walls are covered in posters of celebrities and
athletes drinking flavored milk.
Building on a growing body of work that suggests dietary nitrate improves muscle performance in many elite
athletes, researchers at Washington University
School of Medicine in St. Louis found that
drinking concentrated beet juice — high in nitrates — increases muscle power in patients with heart failure.