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Since it is a sports drink, it contains both sugar and sodium in reasonable amounts (it has about 1tbl of sugar and 0.05% of your recommended sodium intake per 240ml- the nutritional analysis for "Thirst Quencher"). Although the sodium sounds quite low, if you drink 1200 mls of it in a day, you've had 25% of your salt intake. Clearly, if you are also consuming a lot of salt and sugar elsewhere in your diet, it might be wise to try to cut back on the Gatorade.

Gatorade is designed as a sports drink, for after intense exercise, hence it's sugar and sodium content. But those who do not generally participate in high energy activities have no need of these additional "benefits" in these sports drinks; they are likely to give you a short term "boost" then a sugar crash a few hours later, as opposed to being used to replace lost fluids and electrolytes which aid sporting recovery. The "non sporting person's" electrolytes should be in perfect balance (which means they do not require extra sodium to replace sodium lost in sweat).

If you are doing heavily intense sports for 2 hours, 3 or more times a week, there's probably nothing wrong with drinking a litre of Gatorade after each session. However most normal people will not be doing that much exercise, so for them Gatorade is best enjoyed as a rare treat rather than a daily habit.

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