Milk Is A Great Recovery Drink

[BSRU]

Did anyone see BBC 1 programme about food yesterday afternoon?
It showed milk was a far better recovery drink than these fancy sports drinks.
Also crisps are not as bad as often thought by people, containing less salt than many common foods, such as bread and weight for weight also twice as much potassium as bananas.
I do not eat many crisps but do drink lots of milk

 

[Arsen Gere]

Unfortunately a lot of people are lactose intollerant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance .
But I found if I have some kind of carb with milk it seems offset the effects. So eat cake or try banana/chocolate flavoured sweatened milk drinks.

 

[ianrauk]

I luv my milk on my cereal in the mornings with a glass of it on the side.
And a bag of plain crisps with my workday lunch to get some salt into my body.

 

[Night Train]

Unfortunately a lot of people are lactose intollerant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance .
But I found if I have some kind of carb with milk it seems offset the effects. So eat cake or try banana/chocolate flavoured sweatened milk drinks.

I have to have lacto-free milk and even then not in large quantities.
Ordinary milk gives me terrible stomach cramps, and the runs, for days even after only a mouthful, or if in tea or coffee.
Rules out cream cakes and iced cream too.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Did anyone see BBC 1 programme about food yesterday afternoon?
It showed milk was a far better recovery drink than these fancy sports drinks.
Also crisps are not as bad as often thought by people, containing less salt than many common foods, such as bread and weight for weight also twice as much potassium as bananas.
I do not eat many crisps but do drink lots of milk

Of course it showed that milk is better for recovery than sports drinks. Unless specifically designed for recovery purposes,most sports drinks contain nothing that will help with recovery at all.

 

[vernon]

It's not exactly new knowledge. Milk and milk based drinks have been recommended as recovery drinks for yonks in most of the cycling comics.

Crisps might have less salt than bread and more potassium than bananas but they are 30% w/w fat. A large packet per day for a year contains close to a gallon of oil.

 

[Andy_R]

Did anyone see BBC 1 programme about food yesterday afternoon?
It showed milk was a far better recovery drink than these fancy sports drinks.
Also crisps are not as bad as often thought by people, containing less salt than many common foods, such as bread and weight for weight also twice as much potassium as bananas.
I do not eat many crisps but do drink lots of milk

The thing about crisps is that they are incredibly bad for your teeth...potato starch will linger in your mouth for hours, worse than sugar.

 

[Globalti]

Many people are less able to process lactose as they age, which is why older folk sometimes get abdominal pain and diarrhoea.

 

[BSRU]

The thing about crisps is that they are incredibly bad for your teeth...potato starch will linger in your mouth for hours, worse than sugar.

I saw that episode of QI as well

 

[BSRU]

Of course it showed that milk is better for recovery than sports drinks. Unless specifically designed for recovery purposes,most sports drinks contain nothing that will help with recovery at all.

It does seem these days many people do not read labels otherwise they would realise they are basically buying sugared water in fancy packaging.

 

[Cheddar George]

As a child in the 1970's all of the cup final post match interviews seemed to feature a sweaty bloke swigging from a bottle of milk. Maybe it was only once but time has a habit of editing my memories.

 

[TVC]

I posted on a similar thread a couple of years ago - I bought some 'recovery shake' mix from Boots that you made up with milk. When I looked at the label, 95% of all the good stuff it was claiming to contain actually came from the milk you stirred it into. Since then I've drunk plain milk for recovery.

 

[vernon]

As a child in the 1970's all of the cup final post match interviews seemed to feature a sweaty bloke swigging from a bottle of milk. Maybe it was only once but time has a habit of editing my memories.

Are you sure that it wasn't in the eighties when The Milk Marketing Board sponsored the League Cup?

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

It does seem these days many people do not read labels otherwise they would realise they are basically buying sugared water in fancy packaging.

The same people are generally those who are never near a gym,rarely exercise and if they do,never work hard/long enough to actually require some form of carb/electrolyte intake or indeed products to aid recovery.

 

[mr messy]

Many people are less able to process lactose as they age, which is why older folk sometimes get abdominal pain and diarrhoea.

OMG!!!! I've drank at least 2 pints of the best drink per day for most of my life! Add that to just my current decrepitness and be the "gluepot" for me soon.....