GATORADE AND SO-CALLED “SCIENTIFIC DRINKS”…

Good Wednesday To You!

I’ve had literally thousands of people ask for my opinion on the many so-called scientifically validated sports/performance/post workout drinks on the market.

I regularly get companies sending me samples of a wide variety of “performance foods and drinks” wanting me to endorse them.

As you know, so far, I’ve not endorsed many products except a few such as the products produced by Dr Cass Ingram at  American Wild Foods.

I thought I’d share some of my concerns over such drinks and share an article I found on the web that briefly exemplifies some of the reasons we should all be concerned.

Additionally, if you read my post yesterday, you already know how I feel about the so-called scientific validation of anything without having a clear understanding of:
1. Who funded the study.
2. The design of the study, and
3. The scientist’s dependency (for income) on the outcome of such studies; are they prostituting, or researching for genuine reasons of scientific exploration without a bias toward a given result?

There are many claims by manufactures of modern sports/performance gimmicks.

Here are a few “realities” they CHOOSE TO IGNORE!

1. Many commercially processed sugars are highly addictive!

2. Processed sugars, in general, speed (excite) cellular function, without delivering the nutrition needed to both counterbalance the stimulating effects or repair the cells. Royal Lee says that using such sugars is like racing a cars engine without ever checking the oil in the crank case… see: “LECTURES OF DR. ROYAL LEE“, Vol. 1, and Vol. 2 (which is on audio CD)

3. Processed sugar is a well known “displacing foodstuff”. As was well pointed out by Weston A. Price in Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.

Though manufacturers may have added “so-called nutrition”, what they have added will most likely be cheap, synthesized crap that stresses the body far more than it nourishes the body!

4. Sugar DOES NOT occur in isolated forms in nature. In nature, you ALWAYS find fats, proteins, enzymes, minerals, trace minerals and co-factors combined in each and every foodstuff.

Royal Lee gives the example of a watch. He asks, “What part of a watch tells time?” Well, of course, the WHOLE watch tells time.

Eating any form of isolate is like eating parts of a watch; it doesn’t improve your ability to “tell time”, which means “to function”.

Worse yet, Royal Lee explained that if you eat any amount of an isolated vitamin, the body must rebuild the vitamin-complex, which requires that all other nutrients missing from “the watch” be extracted from bodily reserves.

This can, and often does lead to secondary imbalances, illnesses and possibly disease! Royal Lee’s philosophy in this regard is well demonstrated in a fantastic book titled
The Real Truth About Vitamins & Anti-oxidants by Judith A. DeCava (2006).

I highly recommend you read it! It stands standard, modern nutritional approaches right on their head!

5. There is a nutrient:energy ratio that must be maintained in all food stuffs if illness and disease is to be prevented.

So far, nothing has proven more reliable than wholefood diets from organic food sources for that purpose!

6. Most so-called scientific drinks and foods use processed sugar sources. Please order the video and/or audio of Annie Niewenhous, PhD, CN, CP4 presentation on sugar from the 2011 CHEK Conference.

7. Most drink manufacturers use filtered tap water in their drinks. Chlorine and fluoride, are generally not removed and are mineral, enzyme and nutrient blockers at large.

You should look carefully into what their water source and preparation is if you can. You could easily spend the money to have a lab analyze what’s in their drinks and go from there!

7. Processed sugar has been found to suppress appetite. Essentially, what typically occurs is that people end up getting far too much of their calories from sweet drinks and then, due to appetite suppression, don’t eat adequate amounts of real food and become nutritionally deficient.

8. Gatorade and most all of the drink manufacturers in this class of drinks (and packaged foods!) uses chemical sweeteners, colorings, stabilizers, emulsifiers and other chemicals that are known to cause health problems for most people.

If you don’t have a good food additives dictionary, I suggest you get one and look up every ingredient you can find in Gatorade and list all the negative symptoms associated with such ingredients!

Then, ask Gatorade, Coke, Pepsi and others to come clean with their ingredient list; there’s a reason they lobby so heavily to pass laws that allow them to keep ingredients secret and it’s definitely not just for reasons of proprietary!

For example, if all the great pastry chefs of the world listed their ingredients, they still wouldn’t be telling you how to mix, prepare, bake and create their works of art.

9. Commercial sugar has been found by a variety of researchers now to suppress the immune system. Generally, one teaspoon of sugar suppresses the immune system for about six hours.

I think Annie discusses this in her thesis. I know Dr. John Brifa talks about this in one of his books. He’s an English medical doctor that’s written several good books.

10. There is now a lot of information regarding the adverse reactions to gums and stabilizers used in products like Gatorade.

Again, a food additives dictionary will shed some light here as well.

Here’s a little article I found on the web this morning that simply highlights some of my concerns, which I think you’ll enjoy ;-D:

Gatorade
Contents
• 1 Gatorade
• 2 Ingredients
• 3 Origins
• 4 Side-Effects

Gatorade is a colorful liquid that advertises its similarities to steroids when drunk by athletes or overweight schoolchildren who seek to become athletes.

From what is listed on the ingredient list on Gatorade, which has been edited by the American government, the known ingredients are “water, sucrose syrup, glucose-fructose syrup, citric acid, natural and artificial flavors, salt, sodium citrate, monopotassium phosphate, ester gum, sucrose acetate isobutyrate, and yellow 5. [artificial coloring agent]”

Ingredients

The first ingredient, water, is acquired from clean-water plants that purify sewage. The rest is obtained from particular factories in Canada where spit-up substances are collected from babies.

Sucrose syrup and glucose-fructose syrup, more commonly known as sugar is obtained from the liquid sweat by alligators when put under immense pressure, such as a DNA test.

Citric acid, more commonly known as Acid or LSD is a hallucinogen that gives the consumer the impression that they are benefitting their body by drinking crappy tasting sugar water.

Natural and artificial flavors vary by advertised flavor of the particular product, but usually includes natural dick flavoring and artificial pineapple flavoring, which was previously sold in spherical form under the brand name Aqua Dots.

Monopotassium phosphate and sucrose acetate are well-known in the medical field as the substance that causes hair to grow on the palms of young teenage boys. Such an effect can take place if one overdoses on Gatorade.

Ester gum, or the Glycerol ester of wood rosin, is a waxy substance excreted by trees when cut with a razor blade or pocket knife.
Despite the listing of artificial coloring on the ingredient labels of Gatorade, it is widely accepted that the color of the product depends on the mood of the alligator at the time of its sweat-gland removal.

Origins

Gatorade was invented sometime before 1975 by a group of evil-scientists, at that time known as “doctors”, at University of Florida.

When coaches complained that steroids had not yet been invented, the doctors looked to their evil-labs where they were currently holding a talking alligator captive. The doctors spoke with the alligator, whom they affectionately named “FUALGORE1337”, and the alligator offered his magical sweat gland in exchange for release back into the Everglades.

The doctors agreed and removed the sweat gland, which they have been using since this day to create every bottle of Gatorade (though it has been necessary to extract un-magical sweat glands from other alligators in order to maintain colour).

When FUALGORE1337 asked for their side of the deal to be completed, the doctors instead put him into a large test tube with bubbly, glowing-purple water, and attached tubes to his major organs, in hopes of finding the source of his magical vocal ability.

What they found instead was LSD, or acid, inside FUALGORE1337’s pancreas (a place that had eluded the doctors for some amount of time, as alligators do not usually possess pancraei). Having been successful with the addition of alligator sweat to their drink, the team decided to add the LSD as well, renaming it Citric Acid.

Ester gum was added at a later date in 1984, when the doctors invested in a lumber company working in the Everglades.

Side-Effects

Gatorade was under investigation by the media in the past decade due to a side-effect of Gatorade overdose that caused athletes (though not overweight children) to sweat artificially colored liquids, somewhat similar to the natural excretions of alligators, which has led scientists at Google and Yahoo! to believe that the product may cause reptilian genetic mutation over a lifetime of consumption.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my blog today. I look forward to sharing something new with you tomorrow!

Love and chi,
Paul Chek