>>I have e-mailed Quaker Oats and asked them what the grunge is and if they >>any hygiene advice for us. Turns out Gatorade was invented at the >University >>of Florida for the "Gators" teams. >> It was. I was at the Med School at the time. It was concocted by a Urologist/ Renal Physiologist who was also a 'Gator Football fan. Prior to its use there were always 5 or 6 players carried off the field per game for heat prostration. Afterwards, not one. He assigned the patent to UF and it was taken over commercially by Stokely-VanCamp and I suppose wended its way through the corporate takeover pathways. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Apr 29 1999 - 13:04:04 PDT
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