Originally Posted by vip-ip I don't see how Gatorade is better than water except for making digestion easier. Isn't your body supposed to produce and extract all the good minerals you need by itself?

Well Gatorade has calories which he would need to live off of for 7 days, not to mention vitamins, eletrolys (sp?) and a few other things water doesn't offer.

I think they mainly used it though because of the calories ans sugar.