Healthy Beverages: Back To The Basics
Celebrity endorsements and flashy ads may promote health-drink trends, but a growing body of scientific research points to coffee, tea, and low-fat milk as ideal choices for health and nutrition.
Several commercials depict physically fit athletes, actors, and hip-hop artists chugging brightly hued sports drinks and vitamin-fortified waters, but rarely does any commercial show a marathon runner or a basketball player slamming a glass of chocolate milk after a workout. And certainly no ad or commercial would deign to show sweaty, bulky football players dunking tea bags into teacups as a way to replenish themselves after a rigorous game. The implication is that only sports drinks and enhanc…
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