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Is Drinking to Thirst Optimum?

Author(s) -

Timothy D. Noakes

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

annals of nutrition and metabolism

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.926

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1421-9697

pISSN - 0250-6807

DOI - 10.1159/000322697

Subject(s) - thirst , athletes , water intake , hyponatremia , medicine , weight loss , psychology , endocrinology , physical therapy , obesity

Prior to 1969, athletes were advised to avoid drinking during exercise. At least 4 subsequent events led to the adoption of a radically different approach. By 1996, all exercisers were advised to drink 'as much as tolerable' in order to insure that they did not lose any weight during exercise - the 'zero percent dehydration' doctrine. This advice requires that athletes drink enough to 'stay ahead of thirst'. The act of drinking is a basic survival instinct that has been regulated by complex, unconscious controls ever since the first fish-like creatures moved onto land and should not require conscious adjustment.

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