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.

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.

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Lol.

They can say water deals with current dehydration.

Next thing you know, pizza will be a vegetable or something.

And people think America is dumb?

Now I've heard it all. Seriously this elicits a giant W T F from me.achilles614

And the Europeans call us stupid... :roll:

Haven't some governments sorta/tried to ban h2o when some people used less common descriptions for it's name, like dihydrogen monoxide with the intent of fooling them?

I'm really not surprised when governments do absolutely stupid things, that's what they're made of after all, stupid people.

Dosn't it make more sense to follow the scientists on this rather than politicians?

Wiki article: "Drinking water without replenishing electrolytes may instead lead to developing hypotonic dehydration.".

Emedicine: "Hyponatremic (hypotonic) dehydration occurs when the lost fluid contains more sodium than the blood (loss of hypertonic fluid). Relatively more sodium than water is lost. Because the serum sodium is low, intravascular water shifts to the extravascular space, exaggerating intravascular volume depletion for a given amount of total body water loss."

Seems like a the scientists are right on this.

First, pizza is now a vegetable. And now water can't prevent dehydration? :lol:

Should crimes against common sense be a capital offense?

I think so.

Un-f***ing-believable.

:lol: It's typical for the EU, they live to highlight the pernickety semantics in life, but just think - all the people of Europe can sleep soundly at night now knowing that bottled water companies can no longer falsely claim magical powers of dehydration prevention on their labels!...If they manage to forget for a while that every European country is on the brink of economic collapse and their very livelihoods are all at stake, of course.

Water can't prevent dehydration, it can only cure it.NiKva

[QUOTE="NiKva"]Water can't prevent dehydration, it can only cure it.LJS9502_basic

Water can't prevent dehydration, it can only cure it.NiKva

Is this a serious response?

You don't get dehydrated if you're drinking water. Come on, man.

I want to believe that I missed something in the article, or that its author intentionally omitted an import piece of information. cybrcatter

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.

He said: "The EU is saying that this does not reduce the risk of dehydration and that is correct.

"This claim is trying to imply that there is something special about bottled water which is not a reasonable claim."

So it's more an issue of the bottled water producers making what amounts to only a semi-accurate medical claim (ie obviously drinking water hydrates, but it isn't the be-all end-all solution to dehydration) than the EU actually saying "hurr durr drinking water doesn't hydrate". Still kinda ridiculous, but so is wanting to slap "drinking water helps prevent dehydration" on a bottle of water as a selling point.

Next thing you know, pizza will be a vegetable or something.

THE_DRUGGIE

[QUOTE="NiKva"]Water can't prevent dehydration, it can only cure it.airshocker

Is this a serious response?

You don't get dehydrated if you're drinking water. Come on, man.

[QUOTE="THE_DRUGGIE"]

Next thing you know, pizza will be a vegetable or something.

Yagr_Zero

One needs to remember that tomatos are a fruit and not a vegetable.

Dosn't it make more sense to follow the scientists on this rather than politicians?

Wiki article: "Drinking water without replenishing electrolytes may instead lead to developing hypotonic dehydration.".

Emedicine: "Hyponatremic (hypotonic) dehydration occurs when the lost fluid contains more sodium than the blood (loss of hypertonic fluid). Relatively more sodium than water is lost. Because the serum sodium is low, intravascular water shifts to the extravascular space, exaggerating intravascular volume depletion for a given amount of total body water loss."

Seems like a the scientists are right on this.

markop2003

One needs to remember that tomatos are a fruit and not a vegetable.

WhiteKnight77

This makes perfect logical sense. Clearly blown out of proportion by rallying eurosceptics and americans that just need to feel less ashamed of their own laws.

This is stupid because the claim is that water can prevent dehydration. And it can. Just not always by itself.CammiTac

It's kinda like banning the claim that food prevents starvation, because any given food might not have everything the body needs.

about time, give me one example of research that proves water can actually prevent dehydration. It was all just a massive advertisement campaign by water bottle companies and you all fell for it.

Next thing you know, pizza will be a vegetable or something.

THE_DRUGGIE

Next thing you know, pizza will be a vegetable or something.

THE_DRUGGIE

I want to believe that I missed something in the article, or that its author intentionally omitted an import piece of information. cybrcatter

Next up: Gravity doesn't Hold you on the Ground, and Food doesn't stop you from being Hungry.

Next up: Gravity doesn't Hold you on the Ground, and Food doesn't stop you from being Hungry.

MobilechicaneX

uh..I'm pretty sure every 3 year old in the world will say that that is bs. I mean its taught in every classroom in the world that water is needed in your body to prevent dehydration since your body is 70% water. Hundreds of study's have also concluded that water has very positive effects on the human body. The EU really need to introduce a 'common sense' law.DeX2010

Common sense may be a reasonable jumping off point, but you have to be prepared to deal with results that run completely contrar to something you'd assumed was already well understood.

That's the thing with science...

Common sense may be a reasonable jumping off point, but you have to be prepared to deal with results that run completely contrar to something you'd assumed was already well understood.

BuryMe

What has science disproven concerning waters ability to hydrate the human body?

[QUOTE="BuryMe"]

That's the thing with science...

Common sense may be a reasonable jumping off point, but you have to be prepared to deal with results that run completely contrar to something you'd assumed was already well understood.

airshocker

What has science disproven concerning waters ability to hydrate the human body?

I often come acros people finding out something they don't like, and then argue "Common sense tells you it should really be this way." Well sorry, science isn't limited to common sense. Look up superfluids to get an example of what I mean.

As for this story, I don't know exactly what they found in their study. But as a user here aready pointed out, water alone may not be enough to keep you hydrated.

Jesus every 3 year old and his dog knows that water prevents thirst which is dehydration. This is more idiotic than the American pizza is a vegetable thing.