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I was in a cholera study at the University of Maryland for a week. Read a lot of sci fi, played ping pong and drank fluids with electrolytes. There is a first phase which is uncomfortable but otherwise, as the docs said, cholera is a piece of cake if treated with hydration.
Reminds me of Norman Borlaug. Talk about leaving a dent.
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Propel and Zero (the first options) both contain sucralose, aka Splenda - I'd prefer to just drink salt water personally, or take the hit on a tablespoon of sugar mixed in and walk it off.
The majority of Americans are overweight, as far as the science shows artificial sweeteners are the best choice for them vs full calorie. If you look up the evidence for the downsides of artificial sweeteners anything that finds one is generally an observational study. So for example, the claim that they cause obesity is backed by the observation that obese people consume it in greater amounts than people who are not…
This is a false choice and has nothing to do with the above commenter's preferences.
Many people just desperately long for convenient foods/drinks that aren't so sweet in the first place and feel frustrated that the largest brands don't want to bother with them.
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Gatorade has a entire line of drinks for different purposes. Zero is what OP is looking for: https://performancepartner.gatorade.com/content/products/hyd... The normal one is for high powered endurance activities and contains some carbs (sugar) to help fuel you through them. They have one with even more carbs, sodium and potassium for people running marathons. The last two on that chart aren't a good choice for someo…
Propel and Zero (the first options) both contain sucralose, aka Splenda - I'd prefer to just drink salt water personally, or take the hit on a tablespoon of sugar mixed in and walk it off.
Sometimes I add a dash of lime
Veeeey low cost and great. And you can pre-mix it in a zip lock bag to have it always available. And add some orange flavour kool-aid powder if you need flavour.
Commercial Rehydration drinks are overpriced and overhyped IMHO
This caught my attention. From the article: Other doctors and nurses found their experiment [drinking water w/ sugar+salt] bizarre and tried to stop them. To me that seemed like professionals clinging to orthodoxy for orthodoxy's sake. They forget that endless reevaluation is needed for a practice to remain 'best'. And maybe it was that. But I also found this talk from Dr Cash; he gives other examples of resistance (…
There's much I don't know about medicine in Bangladesh, but I'm guessing doctors think it's unethical to treat patients with anything other than the best accepted standard of care, unless engaging in an experiment for which the risk and benefits can be described and there exists a reason to believe the benefits outweigh the risks. I suspect that was not communicated well by the experimenters.
So I had cholera. I was in a cholera study at the University of Maryland for a week. Read a lot of sci fi, played ping pong and drank fluids with electrolytes. There is a first phase which is uncomfortable but otherwise, as the docs said, cholera is a piece of cake if treated with hydration.
Also mitigated many millions of hangovers, including my own. Too bad the commercial nature of “sports drinks” have dialed up the sugar and broke away from the clinical goal of rehydration.
> "Too bad the commercial nature of “sports drinks” have dialed up the sugar and broke away from the clinical goal of rehydration." The ones that come as tablets which dissolve in water give you the electrolytes without the sugar. Less packaging waste, too. SIS (Science In Sport) is good, and other brands are available.
Sugar, like salt, is a solute and will impair water absorption.
Reminds me of Norman Borlaug. Talk about leaving a dent.
People are so against GMOs without realizing how many millions of lives GMO’ed wheat and rice saved in India and elsewhere. Both (Norman Borlaug and Dr Cash) go to show that modern and traditional medicines can be carefully manipulated in amazing ways to save millions of lives.
for a few moments I was thinking "saved millions of dollars from dehydration". The title could be clearer if it said "saved millions of people from dehydration".