====== Robert Cade ======

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Robert J.Cade and other researchers of the University of Florida (Dr. Dana Shires, Dr. H. James Free and Dr. Alejandro de Quesada) created [[nutrition:Gatorade]] in 1965 to help the school's football players replace carbohydrates and electrolytes lost through sweat while playing in swamp-like heat.

He died in November 2007. He was 80 years old.

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