6. Science Toward 'Beer as a Sports Drink'

Humblin, the Health editor of The Atlantic's, mentioned about research led by Desbrow in order to find a more viable way for people to consume a lot of alcohol without the dehydration that causes hangover. The research is also trying to find a beer that could replace lost fluid after a long exercise. They did an experiment where they had the seven volunteers to exercise until 0.25% of their body mass was lost. After, they would get different beer to consume on four separate occasions. They discovered through this experiment that low alcohol beer added with sodium avoided exacerbated fluid losses.  Although this experiment was successful, it was unable to solve the problem of hangover because dehydration is not the only pathology involved in hangovers. It also affects the acetate, a byproduct of our cell metabolizing the byproducts of other alcohol, which might be the reason for the headaches. Humblin ends his article with a quote by Desbrow who explains that overall, beer is not the best choice to replace the fluid after exercise because a dehydrated body can have many different repercussions and decreased awareness of risk.

This article is well written with good vocabularies and complex sentence structure.  Humblin started his article with a strong quote of Dr. Ben Desbrow referring to the drinking of beer after exercise therefore, attracting the attention of the readers. He further explains that Dr. Ben Desbrow is from the School of Public Health at Griffith University in Queensland in order to give more credibility to his article. He proposed many good arguments to defend the idea that beer is not good to replace lost fluid after exercise. He also mentioned in his article the consequences of a dehydrated body so that the readers can beware when drinking beer. However, he failed to consult other experts in this area and show other experiments that had been done on the same subject. He also could have expanded more on the examples of pathology involved in hangover that are not related to dehydration so that the readers can have a deeper understanding of the subject. Humblin ended his article with a question, giving the readers an opportunity to have their own opinion on the subject. Overall, this article succeeded in informing the readers about the consequences of drinking beer to replace the fluid lost after exercise. 

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/08/science-toward-beer-as-a-sports-drink/278912/