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Gaming Fuel: 4-way Shootout
Neil Yates writes "It is 2:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning. You have been up all night, fragging away in a Quake3 clan match. Your early morning schedule wore you out and you never had time to take a nap. The server is resetting between games, and you are starting to get a little sleepy-eyed. Milk is not going to do one bit of good and regular Coke or Pepsi are too run of the mill. The last thing that will keep you awake and at the top of your game is some pansy sports drink. Which of these four energy drinks do you reach for?
Pepsi Blue, Vanilla Coke, Dr. Pepper's Red Fusion, or Sobe's Mr. Green?"
What's wrong with plain old Mt Dew? It did represent 80% of my intake by volume from age 15 to 22.
With all the geeky knowledge of all things science around here, I'm a little surprised that this is even a topic. (I think I hear the sounds of barrel bottem scraping.)
All you're doing is screwing yourself up with all that garbage. Drink water and, on occasion drink other things... and definitely not milk -- it feeds cancer and contains all kinds of hormones you don't want in your body.
Quit eating and drinking shit and you'll find that you'll be more alert, more awake, more intelligent, quicker on the trigger and a damned sight healthier. Oddly, you don't need nearly as much sleep as you're likely getting and upsetting your already imbalanced body chemistry isn't going to help anything at all.
Forget about food and drink as a recreational act for a little while and focus on what you're doing -- then nutrition becomes an easy thing to deal with.