Does the average person need to consume sports drinks during hot weather?
Kenney: People need to drink, but drink sensibly. For the typical person who’s not an athlete or a laborer, simple advice would be to drink water and add a bit of salt to their food. For people who are in those other categories, who are going to have more heat stress and be out there on more of a sustained basis, then if they have the ability to do so, drinking sports drinks is beneficial. But also, unless their doctors have told them very specifically not to eat salt, then people should liberally salt their food during these periods of high heat and humidity if they’re physically active. Should people avoid consuming certain things during hot weather? Kenney: I think there’s a lot of advice out there not to drink caffeinated beverages, but I don’t think that’s really warranted, because when you think about drinking soda or coffee, the small amount of caffeine in it is overbalanced by the amount of water. Alcohol is probably OK in moderation unless you’re really out there exercising, b
