2005 Year End Charts

Top Songs of 2005
Rank	Song	Artist	Plays
1	Fix You	Coldplay	125
2	Mr. Brightside	The Killers	108
3	Jesus of Suburbia	Green Day	103
4	Cherry Blossom Girl	Air	99
5	Feel Good Inc.	Gorillaz	99
6	B.Y.O.B.	System of a Down	98
7	Soul Meets Body	Deathcab for Cutie	95
8	Endless Dream	Conjure One	94
9	Bat Country	Avenged Sevenfold	89
10	Breakaway	Kelly Clarkson	85
11	Speed of Sound	Coldplay	85
12	Jerk it Out	The Caesars	82
13	My Humps	Black Eyed Peas	80
14	Nightmares	The Last Dance	80
15	Surfing on a Rocket	Air	79
16	Chicago	Sufjan Stevens	76
17	Drop It Like It's Hot	Snoop Dogg	74
18	Boulevard of Broken Dreams	Green Day	73
19	Cicatriz ESP	The Mars Volta	73
20	Somewhere Only We Know	Keane	71
21	The Tower	Vienna Teng	70
22	Good People	Jack Johnson	68
23	Into the Woods	My Morning Jacket	67
24	Closer to the Sun	Slightly Stoopid	66
25	Wake Me up When September Ends	Green Day	65
26	Panther Dash	The Go! Team	62
27	You and Me	Lifehouse	61
28	Sugar We’re Going Down	Fall Out Boy	59
29	Because of You	Kelly Clarkson	59
30	Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)	Arcade Fire	58
31	Beverly Hills	Weezer	58
32	Bug Eyes	Dredg	57
33	Ridin'	Chamillionaire	56
34	Galvanize	The Chemical Brothers	56
35	I'm Shipping Up to Boston	The Dropkick Murphys	55
36	So Did We	Isis	54
37	Don't Ch'a	The Pussycat Dolls	52
38	Holiday	Green Day	52
39	Don't Get Lost in Heaven	Gorillaz	51
40	Square One	Coldplay	50
41	Gideon	My Morning Jacket	49
42	Jenny Was a Friend of Mine	The Killers	47
43	Give Me Novacaine	Green Day	47
44	Rich Girl	Gwen Stefani, Eve	46
45	Sirenian Shores	Sirenia	46
46	Passive	A Perfect Circle	45
47	Dirty Harry	Gorillaz	45
48	Candy Shop	50 Cent	44
49	Headlock	Imogen Heap	44
50	Stones From the Sky	Neurosis	44
2005
Top Albums
Rank	Album	Artist	Units (M)
1	X & Y	Coldplay	12.2
2	American Idiot	Green Day	6.9
3	Talkie Walkie	Air	5.7
4	Breakaway	Kelly Clarkson	5.2
5	Monkey Business	Black Eyed Peas	5.0
6	Hot Fuss	The Killers	4.6
7	Mesmerize	System of a Down	4.3
8	Encore	Eminem	4.0
9	Demon Days	Gorillaz	3.9
10	Z	My Morning Jacket	3.8
Top Books
Rank	Book	Author	Units (M)
1	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	J.K. Rowling	4.8
2	The City of Dreaming Books	Walter Moers	3.7
3	Gilead	Marilyn Robinson	3.0
4	The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	2.9
5	The Book Thief	Markus Zusak	2.6
6	Postwar	Tony Judt	2.4
7	The Dark Tower	Stephen King	2.1
8	The Journeys of Socrates	Dan Millman	1.8
9	Spin	Robert Charles Wilson	1.8
10	Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell	1.6
Top Movies
Rank	Movie		Units (M)
1	Stars Wars III: Revenge of the Sith		15.7
2	Batman Begins		10.8
3	Hotel Rwanda		10.0
4	Napoleon Dynamite		9.4
5	Crash		9.3
6	Sin City		9.0
7	Million Dollar Baby		8.9
8	The Aviator		8.7
9	Cinderella Man		8.2
10	Coach Carter		8.0

The Invention of Gatorade

In the 1960s a University of Florida research team sought to invent a formula in a solution of water that would enhance athletic ability because the local humidity caused high fatigue among its college athletes.   As a result, the team formulated a sports drink that could replace fluids and prevent dehydration better than any beverage known to man.   This beverage would come to be known as Gatorade, a sports drink that revolutionized the athlete’s diet.  After the sports world noticed increased endurance in the 1967 Orange Bowl contender Florida Gators, the name “Gatorade” was coined.   The drink would become the most researched sports drink in the world. 

Football teams that played their home games in high humidity were the first to embrace Gatorade.  Florida is well known for its humidity, but it was a professional football team- the Kansas City Chiefs- that propelled Gatorade into the mainstream sports world.  After the Chiefs won the Super Bowl in 1970 the drink was marketed nation-wide.  Gatorade has grown to command an astounding 80 to 90 percent of North America’s sports drink market, dominating America’s sports culture as the drink has become favored by most professional athletes. 

Gatorade provides more benefits than water in endurance training for athletes.  Providing more rehydration than water, it allows the body to sweat more during high activity.  The electrolytes sodium, potassium, and chloride found in Gatorade also help recover what's lost when sweating.  There is a 6% carbohydrate solution to provide energy for active muscles, something water doesn't have.  Flavor is also added to quench the athlete’s thirst, so they’ll want to consume more of the drink. 

There aren’t many known food hazards associated with Gatorade.  This is because it's manufactured and uncontaminated by natural settings.  However, if left out at room temperature for a prolonged period, it may provide a setting to support bacterial growth.  Since a large amount of water is concentrated in the drink, there are certain waterborne pathogens that can adapt in Gatorade.  Some of these include Hepatitis A, salmonella, polioviruses, and cholerae.  It’s usually ok to drink Gatorade if it’s only been left out for a few hours, i.e., at a party or other social event. 

Another potential health hazard is in long-term use of Gatorade when you don’t really need it.  The sugars and electrolytes in Gatorade are meant to regulate athletic endurance.  If you’re inactive and you drink a lot of Gatorade, you might get hypoglycemic.  The sugars also produce insulin secretion, causing hunger and overeating.  This can lead type 2 diabetes.  The ability to secrete adequate levels of insulin is hindered, causing blood sugar levels to soar.  Since insulin takes the sugar from the blood to the cells, all the excess carbohydrates in the blood causes the cells to become starved for energy, causing further inactivity. 

Toxicities of potassium, sodium, and phosphorus are not known to have been influenced by Gatorade.  One serving of it has only 2-5% of the daily value for each.  As mentioned, I would only recommend this drink to active people.  I’m always drinking Gatorade or Powerade, its lesser-known cousin, because I feel a lot of energy is restored after the exhausting exercises I do.  Research is still being done on the effects of Gatorade.  It would be a big blow to the athletic world if there were a long-term side effect from excessive use of the drink.  But if there was, I’m sure they would have found it by now.