Drinking Sodas
Coke or Pepsi? When you're training, neither. Go easy on the soft drinks in
your sports nutrition diet.
There has been some indication that drinking a lot of carbonated sodas,
especially cola, can have an adverse effect on bone strength in teenage girls.
(This would probably also be true of diet sodas.)
This is very controversial and far from proven, but there is no doubt that it
alters your body´s pH levels. But the possibility plus the proven fact that
many people, especially teenagers, consume a large percentage of their
calories as soft drinks, which have no nutritional value and displace a proper
sports nutrition diet, should make you think twice about drinking a lot of
soda. Like a sports nutrition supplement, you don´t have to give up soda; just
don´t make it a major part of your sports nutrition diet.
