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EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration - TelegraphEU officials concluded that, following a three-year investigation, there was no evidence to prove the previously undisputed fact.Producers of bottled water are now forbidden by law from making the claim and will face a two-year jail sentence if they defy the edict, which comes into force in the UK next month.
Last night, critics claimed the EU was at odds with both science and common sense. Conservative MEP Roger Helmer said: “This is stupidity writ large.
“The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart and yet here they are: highly-paid, highly-pensioned officials worrying about the obvious qualities of water and trying to deny us the right to say what is patently true.
EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration - Telegraph
Remind me a again why we should follow the European way of doing business? THREE YEARS to come up with this ****?
For reals?
:lol: While I don't deny we need water, generally speaking unless we are so ill we are barely conscious, our bodies tell us when to drink it, so we do not need to be deliberately timing our consumption.
I don't know. If the water manufacturers are exploiting neurotic people and parents fears for their children by making them believe they need to consciously drink water at particular times, water paid for and carried in plastic bottles to school or work which themselves pollute the atmosphere, I can see the EU point. We don't need more neurotic people. Unless we are going on a survival expedition, for most people their bodies will tell them when they need water.
The tactic seems exploitative.
But that's not the issue they're "combating"
Honestly - I don't know what they're combating . . . but they sure have a good measure of ****ing stupid.
The NHS Choices website states: “Try to drink about six to eight glasses of water (or other fluids) a day to prevent dehydration."
Many schools get so hung up on the advice that they insist that pupils bring a bottle of water to school with them.
But Margaret McCartney, a Glasgow GP, said there was no firm evidence backing up claims that drinking so much was necessary to prevent dehydration.
She said the recommendation was "not only nonsense, but thoroughly debunked nonsense".
Writing an opinion piece in the BMJ, she said several studies showed no clear benefit of drinking large amounts of water.
This advice (not a rule) was issued regarding a hypothetical (and possibly vexatious) request regarding labelling on bottled water. The response is in terms of a health claim which is medically unfounded. Plain water does not help dehydration.
More to the point the advice was issued last February, so why the hysterical stupidity surrounding it now?
They applied for the right to state that “regular consumption of significant amounts of water can reduce the risk of development of dehydration” as well as preventing a decrease in performance.
Well I was guessing at what they were combating. From a link in that article
Advice to drink eight glasses of water daily 'nonsense' - Telegraph
Usually when silly stories like this one come out, there is a different issue which it is relating to. My guess was that people were getting neurotic about drinking water - something I have never known any healthy person to have a problem being aware of knowing when they need and that this was being exploited by bottled water producers. If we did enough research we would find out but I am not motivated - as I say my guess is it is a bit different to what is being reported.
That's the point. Salts and glucose, vital for rehydration, are not present in bottled water.
EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration - Telegraph
Remind me a again why we should follow the European way of doing business? THREE YEARS to come up with this ****?
For reals?
I liked the "we are neither surprised nor delighted" comment. That was wonderful.
EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration - Telegraph
Remind me a again why we should follow the European way of doing business? THREE YEARS to come up with this ****?
For reals?
My head hurts. Is it this thread? or am I just dehydrated?
This is awesome! It's Darwinism at work. There are dumb ****s out there that will believe that water will not hydrate their bodies, not drink water in hot conditions, when there bodies are losing water by the gallons and they will die.
I'm not seeing the down side, here.
EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration - Telegraph
Remind me a again why we should follow the European way of doing business? THREE YEARS to come up with this ****?
For reals?
yeh I know I mean look at America, economy is in ruins but they have their eye on the big picture gay marraige and building electric fences across a border...
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