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EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration.
« on: November 19, 2011, 09:30:24 PM »
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8897662/EU-bans-claim-that-water-can-prevent-dehydration.html

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EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration.  EU officials concluded that, following a three-year investigation, there was no evidence to prove the previously undisputed fact.

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A meeting of 21 scientists in Parma, Italy, concluded that reduced water content in the body was a symptom of dehydration and not something that drinking water could subsequently control.

Now the EFSA verdict has been turned into an EU directive which was issued on Wednesday.

Get out Britain.  Get out now!!
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« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2011, 02:51:08 AM »
The EU is just Europe's way of flushing the toilet on themselves.  Tony Blair, a liberal labor party person, said that the people of the EU need to weaned of the entitlement mentality.   
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« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2011, 04:26:01 AM »
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« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2011, 07:27:45 AM »
Quote from: KD5NRH on November 20, 2011, 04:26:01 AM
And buy stock in Brawndo.

It's got what plants crave.
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« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2011, 07:50:13 AM »
Quote from: roo_ster on November 20, 2011, 07:27:45 AM
It's got what plants crave.

But what are electrolytes, do you even know!?
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« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2011, 07:56:23 AM »
Quote from: kgbsquirrel on November 20, 2011, 07:50:13 AM
But what are electrolytes, do you even know!?

They're what they use to make Brawndo.
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« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2011, 09:16:24 AM »
Quote from: KD5NRH on November 20, 2011, 07:56:23 AM
They're what they use to make Brawndo.
And they do the body good.  

I honestly couldn't figure out how they got 21 scientists to say that.  It makes me wonder what specific question they answered.
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« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2011, 09:40:35 AM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on November 20, 2011, 09:16:24 AM
And they do the body good.  

I honestly couldn't figure out how they got 21 scientists to say that.  It makes me wonder what specific question they answered.


Well, if you read the article you linked, or at least the last few paragraphs.  :P  Apparently, the specific question was whether drinking bottled water was necessary to avoid dehydration.
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« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2011, 01:26:46 PM »
Split Topics.




Here is the actual ruling: http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/doc/1982.pdf

Apparently this ruling was issued back in February 2011.
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Re: EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration.
« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2011, 01:33:15 PM »
Quote from: fistful on November 20, 2011, 09:40:35 AM
Well, if you read the article you linked, or at least the last few paragraphs.  :P  Apparently, the specific question was whether drinking bottled water was necessary to avoid dehydration.

Even tho the assertion was lower the risk...
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Re: EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration.
« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2011, 02:30:33 PM »
"This just in... Scientist say that eating food will not prevent starvation. News at 11!"

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Re: EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration.
« Reply #11 on: November 20, 2011, 03:15:16 PM »
That Dihydrogen Monoxide is dangerous stuff.  Should be banned. :laugh:
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Re: EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration.
« Reply #12 on: November 20, 2011, 04:02:34 PM »
I hear submethyl hydroxide is even worse for you. Why is there nothing being done about these dangerous chemicals in our water supply? Think of the children!
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« Reply #13 on: November 20, 2011, 07:11:58 PM »
Maybe whisky would be better  ???

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Re: EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration.
« Reply #14 on: November 20, 2011, 07:16:41 PM »
and those Europeans think they are so smart.  lol

shades of bent bananas
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Re: EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration.
« Reply #15 on: November 21, 2011, 11:33:43 AM »
Quote from: fistful on November 20, 2011, 09:40:35 AM

Well, if you read the article you linked, or at least the last few paragraphs.  :P  Apparently, the specific question was whether drinking bottled water was necessary to avoid dehydration.
I saw that, but I still think it is a silly ruling. 

Maybe these guys are wine drinkers and can't stand the thought of drinking straight water.
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Re: EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration.
« Reply #16 on: November 21, 2011, 06:43:58 PM »
"Prof Brian Ratcliffe, spokesman for the Nutrition Society, said dehydration was usually caused by a clinical condition and that one could remain adequately hydrated without drinking water."

What is "adequately hydrated" to them?  A day?  A week?  Of all the things to get a group of people together to research to benefit humans, this really doesn't top the list of things that come to mind.
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Re: EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration.
« Reply #17 on: November 21, 2011, 09:26:39 PM »
Quote from: Terpsichore on November 21, 2011, 06:43:58 PM
"Prof Brian Ratcliffe, spokesman for the Nutrition Society, said dehydration was usually caused by a clinical condition and that one could remain adequately hydrated without drinking water."

What is "adequately hydrated" to them?  A day?  A week?  Of all the things to get a group of people together to research to benefit humans, this really doesn't top the list of things that come to mind.
I guess they are officially a completely urban society where lack of drinking water is incomprehensible. 
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« Reply #18 on: November 21, 2011, 09:56:35 PM »
If one ate enough apples/grapefruit/celery/other high water content foods one could remain adequately hydrated without drinking straight water.  But the "study" is still assinine.
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« Reply #19 on: November 21, 2011, 10:01:29 PM »
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I guess they are officially a completely urban society where lack of drinking water is incomprehensible. 

No, Mech, they're idiots.  Complete and total idiots.  Europe officially attained unable-to-face-reality status about a decade ago, and they just knocked it up a notch to velcro shoes, special buses, and an inability to feed themselves.

Sorry EU friends, but your pan-european betters just proclaimed that water is not wet.  Eject now before they start to make Zimbabwe look enlightened.
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Re: EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration.
« Reply #20 on: November 21, 2011, 10:39:22 PM »
Quote from: sumpnz on November 21, 2011, 09:56:35 PM
If one ate enough apples/grapefruit/celery/other high water content foods one could remain adequately hydrated without drinking straight water.  But the "study" is still assinine.

Sure. If all you did was sit around in a cubicle all day. Exposure to low humidity and/or high temperature environments -- or simply engaging in strenuous physical activity -- changes that pretty fast.
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Re: EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration.
« Reply #21 on: November 21, 2011, 11:24:28 PM »
Has anyone taken a break from the EUphobia to realize that the FDA would make EXACTLY THE SAME ruling here in the US?

As far as the FDA is concerned, there are food products and there are drugs and there are non-drug supplements. Bottled water is clearly a food product and cannot be labeled to cure or treat any disease.

The only reason this didn't happen in the US nobody tried it.
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« Reply #22 on: November 22, 2011, 12:31:32 AM »
Quote from: sumpnz on November 21, 2011, 09:56:35 PM
If one ate enough apples/grapefruit/celery/other high water content foods one could remain adequately hydrated without drinking straight water.

By the same logic, the fact that most people don't derive any significant part of their food intake from MREs would indicate that MREs (or HDRs) cannot prevent malnutrition.
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« Reply #23 on: November 22, 2011, 06:43:18 PM »
I think they are just trying to deal with the severe shortage of public bathrooms in the EU.
I welcomed dehydration in Italy, since the honor of using a bathroom usually included spending $75 on a meal or snack. 
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