sports drinks

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Hello, I'll be talking briefly now just for a few minutes about sports drinks or energy
drinks, that's the drinks that sportsmen and women are drinking all the time these days,
it seems, whenever they are playing their sport. Drinks which are also being consumed a
lot by the public at large. So, if you're ready, I'm going to start now.

Ladies and gentlemen, you probably wouldn't think it just to look at me. But, when I was
a bit younger, I actually was a very keen sportsman. I played a lot of sport.

I played a lot of football. I played quite a bit of tennis. And I also cycled a lot.

I even entered some cycling competitions. Nowadays, though, I have become more of an
armchair sportsman. I wouldn't go so far as to say I've become a couch potato.

But still, I do spend more time these days watching sport on television, rather than
actually participating myself actively in games. And as I've been watching sport on TV
over recent years, one thing has struck me. And that is that an increasing number of
sportsmen and women, while they are involved in whatever game it may be, let's say a
football match, they seem to be drinking all the time.

And they're not just drinking water because they're thirsty. No, they are consuming
these so-called sports drinks or energy drinks. Drinks designed to replenish the energy
that they have lost, that they have expended during their physical effort.

Now, the interesting thing is that these drinks have also become popular among the
public at large. Everybody, it seems nowadays, wants to consume these energy drinks.
And the companies who are manufacturing them, of course, are making a fortune.

What seems to be happening is this. People are sitting at home, like me, in their
armchair, watching their sports stars on TV. These fit and healthy, sleek, slim, athletic
individuals.

And they see them drinking these drinks, and they think, at least this is what I suspect is
going on, they think, well, maybe if I started drinking those drinks, I could become fit and
healthy and athletic, just like my favorite sports star. So they go out and buy these
drinks. But of course, the problem is that if you drink a lot of these energy drinks without
actually practicing sport yourself, well, the result is quite the opposite from that that you
might intend.

Because these drinks are ram-jam-full of sugar, and they are highly calorific. So if you
drink a lot of them without practicing sport, what is the result? The result is that you're
going to get fatter, maybe even become obese, and certainly very unhealthy. And
indeed, I would even suggest that these energy drinks are one of the contributing factors
to the growing wave of obesity in many of our countries today.

Thank you.

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