Dr. Robert Cade; Inventor of Gatorade Dies at 80

[Bluedawg]

Few knew his name, everyone knew his product...

Dr. Robert Cade, who invented the sports drink Gatorade and launched a multibillion-dollar industry that the beverage continues to dominate, died Tuesday of kidney failure. He was 80.

His death was announced by the University of Florida, where he and other researchers created Gatorade in 1965 to help the school's football players replace carbohydrates and electrolytes lost through sweat while playing in swamp-like heat.

[rthomas]

It's ironic that the inventor of Gatorade died of kidney failure.