Gatorade is the drink of choice for hard-core athletes, both professional and week-end variety, because it solves the hydration problem.

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The key is the amount of liquids consumed, in addition to all those herbal teas which, while hard to drink, do actually seem to clean the body very well.

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They'd play for hours, fueled by drink and pills, and developed a hard, tight, leather-jacketed sound.

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The first cup was a little hard to get down, but as I continued to drink, I warmed up to the flavour.

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Her hard hitting piece is absolutely fascinating and covers how sport drink friendly messaging evolved and later became questionably incorporated into official medical and sport recommendations, often by advisory boards with multiple members on sport drink payrolls.

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And it is still hard for an American who speaks French to pay for a drink in a bar.

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Drinking alcohol is just as hard on a person as smoking, especially someone that drinks more than a drink or two a day.

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Now, some of those choices may be better than others, although it's hard to argue that the dietary value of milk justifies ingesting an 800-calorie drink as opposed to the 240-calorie cola.

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It's not hard to envision ads showing up letting users know that there's a 2-for-1 drink special right around the corner, or that the restaurant next door has the best burger in town.

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