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HOT: SPORTS DRINKS

* Put down your water and pick up a Gatorade. Researchers at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil had 20 soccer players drink either a sports beverage every 15 minutes during a 75-minute game or no fluids except for water during one 15-minute break. The group that drank the carb-laden beverage ran more sprints during the first half of the game, and perhaps most important, lost only 2 1/2 pounds of weight, while the other group lost an average of 4 pounds.

NOT: GRAPEFRUIT JUICE

* Sure, it's loaded with vitamins, but grapefruit segments and juice can threaten your health when combined with some prescription drugs by inhibiting your body's processing of certain drugs and increasing the amount of medicine that enters the bloodstream. While this isn't a problem with many medications, Lipitor and Viagra are on the list. For a complete list of drugs that have potential interactions with grapefruit,

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