Chocolate milk may help you recover after a hard workout. In a small study at Indiana University, elite cyclists who drank chocolate milk between workouts scored better on fatigue and endurance tests than those who had sports drinks.
A new study from James Madison University presented at the American College of Sports Medicine annual meeting found similar results in soccer players. Not only did the chocolate drinkers recover as quickly as those who went with specially-formulate sports drinks, they also showed less muscle damage over the length of the study than those who drank the sports drinks.
A growing body of evidence suggests that lowfat chocolate milk is the perfect sports drink -- and it's both more nutritious and less expensive than the alternatives!
