YOU don’t have to drink eight glasses of plain water a day to keep hydrated. Any drink, from juice to coffee, will do the job.
Elite athletes asked nutritionist Ann Grandjean at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha whether they could hydrate on sealed drinks such as Coke instead of local water, which is sometimes not suitable for drinking. To find out, she put 27 young men on a strictly monitored diet for three days. One group drank plain water for half their beverage intake. The other had only juice, coffee and cola. There was no difference in…
