Time for the American College of Sports Medicine to acknowledge that humans, like all other earthly creatures, do not need to be told how much to drink during exercise [4]

British Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 109-111

  Noakes, Timothy D ^a   Speedy, Dale B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIURETIC AGENT; SODIUM;

ACCURACY; ATHLETE; ELECTROLYTE INTAKE; EXERCISE; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MARATHON RUNNER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SPORTING EVENT; SPORTS DRINK; SPORTS MEDICINE; SWEATING; WEIGHT CHANGE;

EID: 33847093742     PISSN: 03063674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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