[pct-l] Water is Soooo Boring

[Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes]

On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:21 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Is anything other than water that is safe to drink?
>
>  - diet cola: ingredients I cannot pronounce
>  - fruit juice: loaded with sugar
>  - coffee: caffein
>  - milk: good with brownies, oatmeal cookies, etc.
>
> J J
You could try some of the sports drinks. The high-end ones you order  
online or get at bike/running shops. Or perhaps Emergen-C. We've been  
drinking Zipfizz, but it's way over-packaged. I suppose none of these  
have ingredients you can pronounce. Good old water suffices for me  
most of the time. Wine is also good, but not really a performance  
drink. :)

Yoshihiro cracks me up:
> I have tested the American's unhealthy foods extensively in this
> summer. The foods was not wrong, they sometimes taste good. Now, I
> think that the overeating behavior of the Americans might be the cause
> of the short life.

Yeah, uh-uh. You "tested" it. (Picturing Yoshi chowing down with  
gusto and stuffing his bags for the return trip with cheese-puffs and  
Little Debbies.)

Americans overeat and under-exercise. I think the under-exercising is  
even worse than the overeating. Forget LA. Nobody walks in America.