Merged This Just In - Water is NOT wet!

[Moon-Spinner]

Okay, so I'm still trying wrap myself around this:

Water doesn't hydrate

The bottom line to this (as I see it) is they want to prevent Bottled Water companies from saying that their water can prevent dehydration, because it sounds like there's something "Special" about their bottled water.

 

[lionking]

The EU is now officially insane.

 

[Brian-M]

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.

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.

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.

I wonder how one can remain adequately hydrated without consuming products containing water?
_{I suppose intravenously receiving water might do the trick.}

ETA:

The only way this could make any sense at all would be if they're comparing plain water to other beverages (which incidentally contain water).

But in that case, it's no so much that [bottled] water can't treat dehydration, but that almost any beverage can treat dehydration.

 

[ehcks]

What's the point of a label on water that says "Prevents dehydration!" Everyone knows that already.

It makes the companies look like they're trying to scare people into drinking more water. Specifically, their water.

 

[TheGoldcountry]

Wow. They could have just said "people might have conditions that inhibit their bodies from absorbing water" but no, they went all out, and decided to contradict language.
From now on, when I need a shower, I'll just tell people that I have a clinical condition, and I am technically clean, even though I have very odorous things clinging to my body.

 

[MG1962]

Hmm odd I can not find anything from the EFSA from Feb that seems to match the contents of the story

I did find http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/11/eu-bans-claim-drinking-water-can.html

Which quotes : 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.

 

[Noztradamus]

Okay, so I'm still trying wrap myself around this:

Water doesn't hydrate

The bottom line to this (as I see it) is they want to prevent Bottled Water companies from saying that their water can prevent dehydration, because it sounds like there's something "Special" about their bottled water.

I'm jus surprised that the Eurokrauts didn't demand that bottled water carries a label

Warning: This product may cause rehydration

 

[Abdul Alhazred]

New EU regulation squashes phony baloney health claims

EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration
The Telegraph (UK)

... 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. ...

That'll show 'em!

 

[slingblade]

Okay...you realize we USAians have to remember this one the next time we're confronted and taunted with how abysmally stupid our own government or authorities can be, right? Right?

 

[WildCat]

Hmm odd I can not find anything from the EFSA from Feb that seems to match the contents of the story

I did find http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/11/eu-bans-claim-drinking-water-can.html

Which quotes : 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.

How exactly does one remain adequately hydrated without drinking water?

 

[jj]

How exactly does one remain adequately hydrated without drinking water?

Especially since the body uses water (i.e. changes it chemically in a net conversion of water into other products) in cells during the process of "burning" glucose into energy.

 

[jasonpatterson]

How exactly does one remain adequately hydrated without drinking water?

Eating foods that contain water. Drinking liquids that contain water along with other stuff.

I could be wrong, but I read it to mean that a person can remain hydrated without drinking plain water. There is a whole bunch of misinformation on this, the whole "8 glasses of water a day" thing being first and foremost.

 

[Giz]

Eating foods that contain water. Drinking liquids that contain water along with other stuff.

I could be wrong, but I read it to mean that a person can remain hydrated without drinking plain water. There is a whole bunch of misinformation on this, the whole "8 glasses of water a day" thing being first and foremost.

All well and good but a 2 year jail sentence seems a little excessive...

The EU would have a lot less opposition if they adopted a "less is more" strategy when it came to regulations/overturning referendums/installing technocrats etc...

 

[commandlinegamer]

Hmm odd I can not find anything from the EFSA from Feb that seems to match the contents of the story

I did find http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/11/eu-bans-claim-drinking-water-can.html

Which quotes : 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.

Which appears to be taken from the same article in the OP.

There's a bit more sense in this Guardian blog:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2011/nov/18/1

 

[Bill Thompson]

if you drink pure water, won't it just about kill you?

I am not kidding. The human body needs mineral water. Pure water is only used as an industrial cleaner. Pure water will pull the calicum out of your teeth if you put it in your mouth.

If pure water is manufactured from Oxygen and Hydrogen, minerals have to be added to make it save for human concuption.

 

[Georg]

How exactly does one remain adequately hydrated without drinking water?

 

[Bill Thompson]

beer

No, that dehydrates you.
Epic Fail.

 

[Georg]

No, that dehydrates you.
Epic Fail.

BS. I drink about 0.3 litres of water every day (more only during summer season). The rest ist coffee, about 1 litre a day (meant to dehydrate you as well, isn't it?), beer, 2-4 pints a day, and/or wine. I do that since years and have not been ill since ages. The fail is yours.

 

[JJM 777]

because it sounds like there's something "Special" about their bottled water.

As if this were the only advertisement out there that gives the impression that there is something special about their product. But this water ad differs from the general trend, in that the claim is actually true.

 

[Damien Evans]

if you drink pure water, won't it just about kill you?

I am not kidding. The human body needs mineral water. Pure water is only used as an industrial cleaner. Pure water will pull the calicum out of your teeth if you put it in your mouth.

If pure water is manufactured from Oxygen and Hydrogen, minerals have to be added to make it save for human concuption.

Absolute Rot. It may not be as good for you as regular water, but there is no way it can "pull the calcium out of your teeth". If it did you'd drink one mouthful then suffer from a sudden and catastrophic LACK OF TEETH!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DI_water#Health_effects_of_drinking_purified_water