Michael Edwards 5/11/11 Period 7 Computer #8

Emerson MIT Program, Gatorade Robert Cade 5/16/11

The Invention/Gatorade Gatorade helped athletes recover more quickly after workouts Cade got the name Gatorade from the college football team called the Gators Gatorade was well on its way to world wide sales in the billions Gatorade became the household name when the tradition of pouring the Gatorade jug over the head of the winning team’s coach at the end of the super bowl game There are more than 15 flavors of Gatorade.

Inventor/Robert Cade Cade was born in 1917 in Florida Cade was trained at the University of Texas Medical School in Dallas Cade worked as a professor of medicine and physiology there conducting research on kidney and liver disease, diabetes, hypertension and other illnesses Cade also studies Down syndrome, autism and certain types of schizophrenia and develops diets to help these patients improve or recover Meanwhile, in 1973, Cade and the University of Florida were able to strike a deal that allows the university to reap royalties