by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
Can drinking water prevent dehydration?
Before you laugh at the ridiculousness of such question, let me tell you that European Union bureaucrats in Brussels conducted a thorough three-year investigation, and found that there's no evidence to prove that claim that drinking water prevents dehydration.
EU says water does not prevent dehydration
In a ruling in November 2011, European Union (EU) officials announced that there is no proof that water prevents dehydration. The ruling means that manufacturers who sell bottled water in the EU are not allowed to make the claim that their product helps to prevent dehydration.
The whole thing started when two German professors wanted to test new regulations on health claims. The professors advise food advertisers and submitted the seemingly obvious statement to the EU.
Three years later, after proper consideration, the conclusion was reached that “reduced water content in the body is a symptom of dehydration and not something that drinking water could subsequently control.”
The dictionary defines dehydration as “an abnormal depletion of body fluids”. One can but suppose that the argument the officials are making is that there are other contributing factors to dehydration. Which ones these are they have not said.
Drinking water, so the EU body claims, does not do anything to prevent dehydrated but only cools down the body. Sorry, but what the h*** are those people on? Whatever they are smoking definitely is stronger than simple marijuana.
I can but wonder as to what the EU idiots would suggest that we use instead to rehydrate the body after dehydration? Beer, wine...??? Those EU idiots are definite proof that we must not confuse education with intelligence. The latter they certainly do not seem to have.
Another reason for getting out of the EU and that rather quickly...
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