The Courier-Post recently featured an article in its “Health & Wellness” section about a study that suggests that beer is just as hydrating as water following exercise. However, Carla Fynan, Manager of Clinical Nutrition at Cooper, says exercise and alcohol do not mix, and any combination of such would not enhance one’s performance.
Like clockwork, they swarm and squirm through the steamy streets of Philadelphia, leaving a three- to five-mile trail of perspiration and inspiration wherever they go.
They are the Fishtown Beer Runners and they are on a mission from grog.
Thursday evenings, they drink to their health and in the name of science — or specifically to medical professor Manuel Castillo Garzon of Granada University in Spain, who, in a 2007 study, found beer to hydrate as well as water following exercise.
“Any sports nutritionist and any competitive runner would not use alcohol to re-hydrate, but they would go with something that has sugar, salt and water in it,” Fynan said. “Like a sports drink.”