While sports drinks, plain water or coconut water will all keep you hydrated, when you exercise three hours or longer in the heat or adverse conditions, your body requires higher levels of simple carbohydrates and electrolytes not adequately found in coconut water.

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The bottom line is that most people who lightly exercise do not need sports drinks or even coconut water- plain water is just fine.

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The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory or Hawc, high on a Mexican plain, now holds the record for the highest-energy light it can capture.

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It is important to choose plain coconut water, and to avoid coconut waters with added juice or sugar (flavorings), which are essentially the same as drinking soda or other sugary beverages.

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Indeed, the mutants were no more interested in a dilute sugar solution (or, indeed, a solution of artificial sweetener) than they were in plain water though they did respond to concentrated solutions of sweetness.

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