Complications:
Brain herniation
Death
Possible coma
"On January 12, 2007, Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old woman and a mother of 3, from Rancho Cordova, California, was found dead in her home by her mother, hours after trying to win one of Nintendo's Wii game consoles. KDND 107.9 "The End" radio station's "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest, involved drinking large quantities of water without urinating. "
Megan has a point, if poorly expressed. Electrolytes are important to your body. But, there's a balance issue involved. Too much of one will deplete another. Or screw up your blood pressure. Sprinkling some mineral salts in soft drinks is little more than a marketing tool. Which is not to say there isn't a place for sports/electrolyte drinks. When needed.
Sodium is an electrolyte. All you have to do is add salt to something to claim that it has "added electrolytes".
So is potassium.
Apparently it's everything ending in "ium".
ooh ooh...and another thing.
Remember when Karen Carpenter died of a heart attack because she was anorexic and shit?
Well. Electrolyte imbalance. From puking and not eating. True story.
oh, they exist. but see, what is more upsetting is the conditions that the unicorns and the wee folk that are made to milk them - just so we can have our precious sports drinks - are forced to endure every. single. day.
& believe you me, normal factory farming and third-world sweatshops are happy twinkle frou-frou land compared to THAT!
Do you believe in magnets
In a young girl's heart
How the magnets can free her
When attraction starts
And it's magnets
If electrolyte's groovy
It makes you feel freaky
Like a porno movie
Electrolytes are a concept,
By which we can measure,
Our thirst, I'll say it again,
Electrolytes are a concept,
By which we can measure,
Our thirst,
I don't believe in magic,
I don't believe in I-ching,
I don't believe in bible,
I don't believe in tarot,
I don't believe in Will in Seattle,
I don't believe in Fnarf,
I don't believe in Obama,
I don't believe in Buddha,
I don't believe in mantra,
I don't believe in Gita,
I don't believe in yoga,
I don't believe in kings,
I don't believe in Beiber,
I don't believe in Zimmerman,
I don't believe in The Stranger,
I just believe in me,
Slog and me,
And that's reality.
@21 beat me to it. Electrolytes = salt (well, and other stuff, but everything liquid with salt can claim to have electrolytes). And one thing we don't need more of in our diet is salt.
when you go to the hospital and get an i.v. they give you saline.... that's pretty much electrolytes.
they're not something we "invented" but rather something we discovered and then were used in a marketing campaign. we've been drinking electrolytes for a long time until one day we decided to filter out everything that wasn't a hydrogen or oxygen atom in our water supply.
on vacation in europe, I found myself drinking only bottled water for a few days in a row. A headache developed and worsened until I woke up early one morning and poured a tablespoon of salt into a glass, added water and chugged. The headache went away in an hour. The bottled water was distilled water, which contained no salts (aka electrolytes).
electrolytes are polar ionic molecules dumb fuck and they don'y put them in drinks, they put sugar, which is why your an ugly bitch. so suck on ma D motha
Electrolytes are salts. It's just a sexier word for salts.
The last thing a couch potato eating potato chips needs is more salts. However, if you're an athlete, you need to worry about them because you lose salt when you sweat a lot. This is something I think about when I work out or go on a long hike.
Diarrhea kills more kids worldwide than die from watching stupid TV commercials.
#7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1fKzw05Q…
Complications:
Brain herniation
Death
Possible coma
"On January 12, 2007, Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old woman and a mother of 3, from Rancho Cordova, California, was found dead in her home by her mother, hours after trying to win one of Nintendo's Wii game consoles. KDND 107.9 "The End" radio station's "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest, involved drinking large quantities of water without urinating. "
http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness…
If that satisfies you, you can join me in my disdain for people talking about getting rid of "toxins."
SEE HOW IT FEELS?
Are we playing Periodic Table Of The Elements Bingo?
So is potassium.
Apparently it's everything ending in "ium".
Remember when Karen Carpenter died of a heart attack because she was anorexic and shit?
Well. Electrolyte imbalance. From puking and not eating. True story.
& believe you me, normal factory farming and third-world sweatshops are happy twinkle frou-frou land compared to THAT!
Do you believe in magnets
In a young girl's heart
How the magnets can free her
When attraction starts
And it's magnets
If electrolyte's groovy
It makes you feel freaky
Like a porno movie
By which we can measure,
Our thirst, I'll say it again,
Electrolytes are a concept,
By which we can measure,
Our thirst,
I don't believe in magic,
I don't believe in I-ching,
I don't believe in bible,
I don't believe in tarot,
I don't believe in Will in Seattle,
I don't believe in Fnarf,
I don't believe in Obama,
I don't believe in Buddha,
I don't believe in mantra,
I don't believe in Gita,
I don't believe in yoga,
I don't believe in kings,
I don't believe in Beiber,
I don't believe in Zimmerman,
I don't believe in The Stranger,
I just believe in me,
Slog and me,
And that's reality.
http://www.brawndo.com/
It's got what plants crave!
blush blush
they're not something we "invented" but rather something we discovered and then were used in a marketing campaign. we've been drinking electrolytes for a long time until one day we decided to filter out everything that wasn't a hydrogen or oxygen atom in our water supply.
Worlds are colliding!
The last thing a couch potato eating potato chips needs is more salts. However, if you're an athlete, you need to worry about them because you lose salt when you sweat a lot. This is something I think about when I work out or go on a long hike.