[Paddlewise] Fw: Use of "Hydration Systems"? and Gatoraid Gunk

From: Joe Pylka <pylka_at_castle.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:03:34 -0400
>>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.


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