http://kellygallagher.org/resources/AoW%2012_12%20Sports%20Drinks.pdf
While you read the article, do # 1 and 2 from directions below. After that, do #3.
Directions:
#1. Mark your confusion (highlight, underline).
#2. Show evidence of a close reading. Mark up the text with questions and/or comments in the side columns.
#3. Type a one-page reflection on ALL of the questions below (double spaced) and post to blog. In your response, you should include at least 3 quotes from the article.
• Do you think sports drinks help your performance? Why? Why not?
• Watch a Gatorade commercial on Youtube and analyze the claims it makes.
• Do you agree that sports drinks are “oversold” and “over-hyped”? Explain.
I think yes because any kinds of people who play sports are lifting weights, strapping on a football helmet or lacing up running shoes and would rather get hyped on gatorade, ex.) Gatorade, Powerade and other sports drinks have drenched just about every sport in America. I also think no, because if you consume like 30 of these in one day you would probably go to the hospital or die from to much sodium, ex.) Athletes sweat enough to shed large quantities of salt, sports drinks may not help much.
ReplyDeleteThe gatorade commercial claims that, when you consume the drink or those energy chews you get energized and can play your sports, and you sweat a lot, ex.) Athletes believe they need sports drinks to replace the salt lost in sweat, but most of them can get by just fine with regular water, says Michael Bergeron, a fellow of the American Academy of Sports Medicine.
Yes I think that sports drinks are oversold and overhyped because they say only good things on the commercials, and not anything bad about them at all, ex.) Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise found that players who drank a sports drink during a workout could sprint a bit faster and shoot better than players who drank plain water, but they didn’t do any better on a passing drill.
Do you think sports drinks help your performance? Why? Why not? No because I just think drinks like Gatorade should be used to replace electrolytes when you're sick, but I don't think it makes you perform better or anything I think it’s just the advertisers trying to play our minds into buying their products.
ReplyDeleteWatch a Gatorade commercial on Youtube and analyze the claims it makes.
Do you agree that sports drinks are “oversold” and “over-hyped”? Explain. I do believe sports drinks are oversold and the companies should lay off a bit, I mean a 12 pack of gatorade bottles, really is it necessary? I think they should be sold as a single bottle and a every now and then drink but as Dr.Arthur Siegel states “The marketing of sports drinks has helped feed a dangerous obsession with hydration.” I also believe they are over-hyped and they don’t improve your performance and on the plus side they make you dehydrated even more than you were originally as Dr. Arthur Siegel says “Drinking too much water or sports drink before, during or after physical activity can lead to potentially fatal water intoxication.” he also adds “It’s far more dangerous than dehydration.”
I think sports drinks help your performance because you get more energy in your system so you don't faint. Another thing is it helps your strength and weight and if you drink to much, chances are you will get sick. Gatorade is a good sports drink even though there is sugar in it. Gatorade has a lot of sugar in it so that is bad thing and you can die from drinking to many sport drinks or any kind of drinks.
ReplyDeleteSports drinks do not help my performance because I do not play sports. Also because it is full of sodium, and sodium I would not really say it is a very healthy nutrient because sodium is what is in soda and other foods as well. Soda is not healthy at all so instead of having sports drinks help an athlete's performance. It would do nothing but weaken it. According to Michael Bergeron, a kid can drink a 32-ounce bottle of Gatorade Endurance [800 mg of sodium] every hour and still be cramping at the end of the day.
ReplyDeleteThe claim that a Gatorade commercial wants to make is basically trying to say that just because you drink a Gatorade, you will get good at sports.
Sports drinks are oversold because basically anyone can purchase it so it is being oversold because some people who get the sports drinks don’t even need it since they are not athletes? What is the point of getting a sports drink if you are not even an athlete?
What confused me in the article is when the “Prestigious British Medical Journal” that they compared water to gatorade but not saying how and why is better for you in the first place. The “PBRJ” is known for having mostly legitimate facts in their article so them not backing their claim up with facts and stats is not their style. In the “PGRJ” article it say’s
ReplyDelete“...the the benefits of sports drinks are meager at best, especially when compared with plain water, the original sports drink. Gatorade, Powerade and the like promise to replace the three basic things lost during intense exercise: fluids , electrolyte minerals and carbohydrate fuel.” In the article it does not state why Gatorade is better than water but claims that Gatorade says it replaces the three basic things lost during intense exercise. I think that the article didn’t really point out facts as much as it did claim that somethings are better for you than not. I personally do think that sports drinks like Gatorade and Powerade can help sports performance if the Player is dehydrated. Not Monser though(because of all the sugar and caffeine in it), you’re better off being dehydrated.
The Gatorade commercial “Lighting bolt” shows how Gatorade has helped and how it was created trying to show all the more good it’s done than not.
I would say that sports drinks are very over-hyped and over sold because they are literally everywhere you’ll see it on Sports ads, Video game ads, Etc. It also bothers me how some people actually believe the garbage they hear in those commercials like Red Bull gives you wings or Have the energy of the monster when really those do the opposite of what they are advertised.
i feel that sport drink are not necessarily good for you but i do think i does help sport players perform better in a game but to other people that dont play sports really doesn't need it because it does worse to your body than good. the gatorade commercial i feel was about bring the best out of you when you consume their product. i feel that they aren't oversold because all they are doing is trying to make money and make a sports drink to help athletes perform better and its not there fault what the people who buy the product do with them.i also don't agree that there overhyped because sport drinks are made to replenish what you loss when you sweat so you can perform better. it is not made to give you energy/ caffeine. and that is why if for sport drinks
ReplyDeleteI think gatorade does not help you in everyday life but when it comes to sports the drink may
ReplyDeleteImprove your game run a little longer and such. Because the commercial is all about how
you can go longer and faster, a performance boost for any sports they do,
“sports drinks are oversold and overhyped”. This is bad for all of us
because you might think you're doing something healthy but you're not.
Form the British journal“There not much evident that sports drinks improve athletic performance”There paper is like trusted news like the new york
times is the same in US.
“ I wish sport drinks would come with a warning telling people to drink
responsibly” This would be a good thing but then is would turn people off
as a buyer.