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So if your child has been working out and sweating for at least 45 minutes, the answer is probably yes, drink a sports drink. If your child is just hanging out playing video games, the answer is definitely no, drink water.
The granddaddy of sports drinks is Gatorade, a beverage created in the 1960s for the University of Florida Gators football team. The British Medical Journal says it âstarted life as a simple mixture of kitchen foodstuffsâ like water, salt, sugar, and lemon flavoring. Itâs more complicated than that today.