Anyone with a sweet tooth knows our incescent need to all things sweet quite often leads to our failed attempts at reaching perfect race weight. Plus, late afternoon's sugar crashes are all too common too. However, when Twitter socialite (and follower) @ericoduarte from Brazil noted how low-fat chocolate milk drink has shown to increase post-exercise recovery over traditional recovery products, I thought yeah right?
However, true to his tweet he shared a recent article which offered information to support his claim.
Medical News Today's article 'Chocolate Milk's 'Natural' Muscle Recovery Benefits Match Or May Even Surpass A Specially Designed Carbohydrate Sports Drink', examines how consuming the humble ubiquitous low-fat chocolate milk drink can boast recovery. Guardian's article 'milk 'just as good as sports drinks' for athletes' confirms it.
Low-fat chocolate milk is just as good as sports drinks at helping athletes recover from exercise...
Wow, I hear you say? Yes, that's what I thought when I read it. Right, I'm off to Tescos to buy me some choco milk drinks.
[thanks Erico!]
Late edit: For a shoot out on the state of off-the-shelf milk drinks available for sportsman check out Bigfoot MBC's blog post.
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