Chocolate Milk Does the Job Well
To the Sports Editor:
Re “Cornell’s Chocolate Milk Fills Refueling Gap,” April 19: I respect Clint Wattenberg and Jason Huck’s desire to provide athletes with a natural post-training product, but the creation of Big Red Refuel sounds like a step toward making a marketable product similar to many that are already available. With a 4-to-1 carbohydrate-to-protein ratio, low-fat chocolate milk is a great option to promote protein repair and glycogen synthesis, so why are they messing with a good thing? It seems that Cornell’s sports nutrition and agricultural departments are less concerned with their students, and more concerned with replicating the success that Florida had with the creation of Gatorade.