Get Up And Do Something: Sleep: The New Gatorade

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Sleep: The New Gatorade Oct 19th 2012, 11:09 It is a ubiquitous image: a sideline shot of any college football game. Exhausted players scramble to encourage their teammates, listen to last-second instructions from their coaches, and prepare themselves mentally for the last few plays of the game that will decide who jogs off the field victorious. In each case, while the team colors vary, there are two colors that are constant in almost every scenario -- the green and orange of the Gatorade cup. In 1965, Dr. Robert Cade and his team of physicians set out to determine why players on the University of Florida's football team were running out of steam late in games. They figured out that losing hydration and electrolytes with sweating as well as consuming their carbohydrate stores led to their performance decline. Through this investigation, Gatorade was born.

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