When I was at Fort Irwin for desert storm training, the troops were drinking Gatorade by the gallons. We had troops falling out left and right from the stuff. Literally over dosing from the potassium chloride in it. The post commander had all of it yanked from the PX and the post. The stuff is OK to rehydrate with right after a serious work out, and that's it. It will never replace good old H2O.