Via the Cleveland Leader: It’s Better To Drink Beer After Exercise Than Water
Researchers at Granada University in Spain have come across a discovery that will undoubtedly please athletes and sports enthusiasts - a pint of beer post-workout or match is better at rehydrating the human body than water.Professor Manuel Garzon, a member of Granada’s medical faculty, made the finding after tests on 25 students over several months. Researchers believe that it is the sugars, salts, and bubbles in a beer that may help people absorb fluids more quickly.
A small study, I will allow (and the improvement was only slight), but one takes what one can get.
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June 6th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
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June 6th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Actually, it is not uncommon for races to have beer for runners afterward. Though usually it is something like Michelob Ultra, trying to pass itself off as a health drink.
June 7th, 2009 at 2:04 am
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June 7th, 2009 at 7:21 am
[...] Steven Taylor passes along a (somewhat old) scientific report that may spur a health movement: Researchers at Granada University in Spain have come across a discovery that will undoubtedly please athletes and sports enthusiasts - a pint of beer post-workout or match is better at rehydrating the human body than water. [...]
June 9th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Elsewhere, while political science graduate students were denied funding to study the causes of war, another set of researchers concluded that Gatorade is better to drink after exercise as well.