Make Your Own "-ade" Drink

Here's a recipe I found for making your own Sports Drink. Stacy Sims is the inventor and is an environmental exercise physiologist that has been researching sports drinks for the last 8 years. She says that "over an hour of exercise, everyone requires higher sodium content and lower sugar content to facilitate the most efficient movement of liquid from your stomach to your blood, and none of the current drinks on the market contains those correct amounts." She tested her product against the leading brands by having subjects drink from unlabeled water bottles while running for 30 minutes; the testers then did a one-kilometer race. Subjects that had drunk her recipe ran 15 to 20 percent faster!

The Sims Drink

• 32 oz water
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 2 sachets of Emergen-C (effervescent vitamin c packets found at any store)
• 1/2 packet of unsweetened Kool-Aid powder for flavoring