Drink (tap) water - not sports drinks, unless you really are a football star

Sports drinks are fashionable and considered healthy among teenagers, who drink them while watching TV, but they contain useless added sugar. Water is the better optionSports drinks - if they have a justification at all - are for people playing serious sport. According to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), they are useful only for "active individuals performing endurance exercise". That is not even a half-hearted kick-about of a ball in a park, let alone the spectator sport of