Why water may not be the best thing to rehydrate with?

So it's the summer months now, even if mother nature is being a little bit of a pain and gracing us once again with cloudy gloomy weather.  I blame Julie for taking the sun with her when she left on Saturday.  So last wednesday I was running and probably about after 4 miles I felt absolutely parched (or pooched, but more likely both).  Now people will always say the best way to rehydrate is with water, but I've talked about that in the past how maybe it's not the best, but there's more now, and now that it's summer and with lots of fruits there's better way to rehydrated (Tastier too).  No rehydrating usually has some target in addition to just drinking more water be it something like electrolytes (gatorade) or something like vitamins etc....

So the cool thing is I mean I knew that watermelon is full of water, or something like oranges etc.  But there's some fruits that are good for water AND something.

Electrolytes
Things like cantaloupe peaches and strawberries are great for giving you both water as well as electrolytes, and the best thing is that you can eat them whole, make a dessert or even a cold soup....mmmmm cold soup.  (Peaches, cantaloupe, peach nectar, lime juice and sea salt)

Vitamin C
Watermelon, kiwi and citrus fruits are great for getting vitamin c, I mean people know about oranges but what it is good for is that Vitamin c helps with your immune system, UV rays, and countering the effect of pollution and sweating.

Recovery
Pineapple and Cherries are great for recovery after a run because it helps with reducing inflammation as well as speeding up muscle repair.

Immune System
Yogurt and Kefir are good for ensuring your gut is full of good bacteria which is good for helping prevent bad stuff colonizing your gut. 

Other good things to drink instead of recovery is chocolate milk (which is great for recovery due to the perfect ratio of carbs to protein.  Coconut water (which is awfully tasty, and is good for electrolytes because it's got less sugar than gatorade).  Green tea is also good for anti-inflammatory properties.

And with that, time to go eat some cantaloupe.....mmmmmm cantaloupe.

~Cheers