Originally Posted by Natron
Well beer contains B vitamins that can help protect against heart disease (B6 rises by 30% in your blood when drinking beer apparently). I've read people who drink 1 or 2 pints of beer per day have been found to have 30-40% *less* risk of heart disease than people who don't. It's made with cereal grains and yeast... which are good. It raises HDL in the blood to help reduce the risk of blood clots. It's good for you and your cycling lifestyle!
Meanwhile, Gatorade has been found to be more harmful to your teeth than soda, energy drinks, or fruit juice. So there you go.. beer is a delicious, healthy food that helps you pedal your bike faster and with a stronger heart and Gatorade makes you look like a one-toothed hillbilly from a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
Exactly. Beer, especially of a dark variety, has been found to, in addition to what was mentioned above, have all the antioxidant properties that are held in high regard in red wine. There are plenty of carbohydrates in beer if that's your gatorade argument. Gatorade is also very high in sodium, while beer is not.
probably 80-85% of what I drink is made up for Water, Beer, and Whiskey, in that order. The rest comes through tea and fruit juice(which I'll admit is high in sugars) in most cases. Do you think pro athletes want the alcohol affecting their game? Maybe that's why they don't do it, genius.
I'll take water over gatorade any day if I'm merely trying to hydrate.
I will say that Biking is more fun after a few drinks. I'm not training for track races here. I bike because it's fun and it's good, healthy, "green" transportation.