When I was a soph. in High School, I worked at UCD Vegtable Crops Dept. for $ 1.13/ hour ... planting, hoeing, harvesting, row upon row of acre plots of experimental varieties of vegetable crops. All phases of growing the crops were done completely by hand because we were also to observe and take notes of what we saw ( weeds, disease, insects, color, effects of herbicides, insecticides, temperature, moisture, bird and animal damage, etc.. When we hand harvested 40 acres of potatoes, we had help from 10 extra hired Braceros. They ourworked us by 2-3 fold while working bent over to hand pick the potato tubers while almost all of us guys where kneeling down to do so. All of us white kids had sore backs at the end of the days work ( almost 2 weeks ) while the Braceros didn't. We were wondering why, then I noticed that all of them had much shorter legs in proportion to height than us and were able to hand pick quite easily without getting any significant backache. Since daily afternoon temperatures were in the mid to high 90's to low 100's... All of us ( 17 h.s. and college students ) received a daily salt tablet and a gallon of ice water in the morning as an aid to prevent dehydration. Oh yea, these days I drink Powerade Zero ( zero calorie sports drink similar to Gatoraid ) as it not only contains water and about 1% : salt , citric acid, potassium,calcium, magnesium and vitamins B3, 6, 12 . No sugar , O% fat and 0 calories. So, I can get the elecrolytes without sugars , fats or extra calories which is good for diabetics and heart.
I HATE Gatorade and this does not sound much better.
