EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration

[zinfamous]

Electrolytes. It's what the body craves!

Bingo.

lots of jangling and teeth gnashing from a bunch of fools in this thread.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Bingo.

lots of jangling and teeth gnashing from a bunch of fools in this thread.

What do you expect from people who think french fries and pizza should count as a serving of vegetable.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

what's next? Food can't prevent starvation?

 

[bfdd]

So in Europe, water doesn't prevent dehydration, while in America, pizza is a vegetable.

Awesome. Politicians are so smart.

I blame it on Americans trying to be more like Europeans. If we cut that shit out, we wouldn't have this huge Federal Government that gives a flying fuck about school lunches and handles things that actually pertain to the Federal Government.

 

[Locut0s]

It's hip to hate Europe.

I'd love to live in any number of EU countries.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Link is hot.

 

[DrPizza]

Europe doesn't think that drinking water helps prevent dehydration?

Hmmmmm....

No wonder they haven't found the Higg's Boson - isn't CERN in Europe?

 

[foghorn67]

It's hip to hate Europe.

I'd love to live in any number of EU countries.

I don't think it's hip to hate Europe. Its easy and wise to hate the EU.
America has the corporate stigma. EU has "old money" to protect.

 

[-Slacker-]

Sigh. Once again. For the idiots:

Secondly, dehydration doesn't just mean a lack of water, or 'being thirsty'; electrolytes like sodium are important too. If salt levels fall too far, the body struggles to regulate fluid levels in the first place. That's why hospitals use saline drips to prevent dehydration in patients who can't take fluids orally, and why people with diarhhoea are treated with salt-containing oral rehydration fluids. Presumably the next big investigation at the Express will expose the shocking waste of NHS money on needless quantities of saline solution, when jolly old tap water would work just as well.

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


For fuck's sake

 

[drebo]

For fuck's sake, most bottled water HAS minerals and salt in it.

Also, why the fuck is the federal government trying to pass a law regarding school lunches?

 

[Mike Gayner]

LOL @ all the people in this thread who actually think drinking water satisfies dehydration. The irony in this thread is palpable. Ever wonder why there are so many deaths in AFrica from dysentery and diarrhoeal diseases? Hint - it's not a lack of water, but it is caused by dehydration.

 

[Mike Gayner]

For fuck's sake, most bottled water HAS minerals and salt in it.

LOL oh wow. Yeah in the same way that homoeopathic treatments technically may have some active ingredient in them.

 

[davmat787]

LOL @ all the people in this thread who actually think drinking water satisfies dehydration. The irony in this thread is palpable. Ever wonder why there are so many deaths in AFrica from dysentery and diarrhoeal diseases? Hint - it's not a lack of water, but it is caused by dehydration.

Isn't dehydration, by its very definition, a lack of water? If you break down the word, de meaning lack of, hydration, meaning water. I get what you are saying in that the body needs more than just water (electrolytes, etc), but perhaps a better term than dehydration applies.

 

[olds]

Beer makes fluffier pancakes.

 

[BoomerD]

did you know you can get water poisoning if you drink too much?

Yep...DHMO can be deadly...

http://www.dhmo.org/

 

[Bateluer]

LOL @ all the people in this thread who actually think drinking water satisfies dehydration. The irony in this thread is palpable. Ever wonder why there are so many deaths in AFrica from dysentery and diarrhoeal diseases? Hint - it's not a lack of water, but it is caused by dehydration.

Water does re-hydrate you. Pop an S-Cap, its a salt/potassium tablet used by runners to get sodium into their bodies quickly during long runs, see if it rehydrates you. I drink probably about 6 or 7 liters of water a day.

And since you're not exactly aware, apparently, dysentery and diarrhea diseases are not caused by dehydration, they are caused by tainted water.

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

This makes no sense. I do not see a shred of logic here.

 

[zinfamous]

Also, why the fuck is the federal government trying to pass a law regarding school lunches?

eh?

remember that saint Reagan was the one that proposed to define ketchup as a vegetable (only marginally worse than the pizza fiasco) for this purpose, and this goes back well before that.


so, basically, they've been doing it forever.

 

[Baked]

Why protein shake of course.

 

[Bignate603]

actually water on its own cannot prevent dehydration, you guys should go back to elementary school, you clearly missed some very basic biology...

Yes, but you still need water.

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

LOL @ all the people in this thread who actually think drinking water satisfies dehydration. The irony in this thread is palpable. Ever wonder why there are so many deaths in AFrica from dysentery and diarrhoeal diseases? Hint - it's not a lack of water, but it is caused by dehydration.

It is because their water is shitty, literally.

 

[Schadenfroh]

actually water on its own cannot prevent dehydration, you guys should go back to elementary school, you clearly missed some very basic biology...

Water? That stuff in the toilets? Everyone knows that you need to drink Brawndo to mutilate your thirst!

 

[Squisher]

I know when I'm crawling across the desert I'm looking for mound of electrolytes not in solution.

How about saying, "Water can help prevent dehydration"?

 

[lxskllr]

I know when I'm crawling across the desert I'm looking for mound of electrolytes not in solution.

How about saying, "Water can help prevent dehydration"?

Nah, all you need is a teaspoon of salt. The pedantry in this thread is just about as stupid as the EU.

 

[Mike Gayner]

And since you're not exactly aware, apparently, dysentery and diarrhea diseases are not caused by dehydration, they are caused by tainted water.

LOL oh wow, massive reading comprehension fail. Of course those diseases aren't caused by dehydration. DEATH from those (completely survivable diseases) is caused by dehydration. All the water in the world won't help in those cases.