Water does not prevent dehydration. It cures it.
Water does not prevent dehydration. It cures it.
This.
I think the issue at heart here, is that Eurosceptics got the majority of cover in this article in this rightwing news paper...
Yes, I don't know in the US but I've heard that drinking a lot of water prevent dehydration, as in, make you less prone to dehydration.
If that fact is false, as in drinking any liquid perform just as well, then it should not be on the bottles.
They compiled what they assumed was an uncontroversial statement in order to test new laws which allow products to claim they can reduce the risk of disease, subject to EU approval.
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.
However, last February, the European Food Standards Authority (EFSA) refused to approve the statement.
By the way, is it just me or that newspaper's bias radiates out of the screen?It doesn't radiate, it reaches out and slaps you in the face.
Water does not prevent dehydration. It cures it.
Water does not prevent dehydration. It cures it.In the US, that statement would make the FDA classify water as a drug, since according to FDA guidelines, only a drug can cure something.
I'm pretty sure that drinking sufficient quantities of water regularly prevents dehydration from occurring in the first place. Unless you choose to define dehydration as the process of losing water for some reason in which case only stillsuits can do that.
Yes, I don't know in the US but I've heard that drinking a lot of water prevent dehydration, as in, make you less prone to dehydration.It's worth saying, drinking soda pop is not nearly as effective.
If that fact is false, as in drinking any liquid perform just as well, then it should not be on the bottles.
ITT, people act as unwitting corporate shills by jumping on the bandwagon to turn an obscure technical definition they have no real context of into an example of governmental incompetence.Pretty much.
I'm pretty sure that drinking sufficient quantities of water regularly prevents dehydration from occurring in the first place. Unless you choose to define dehydration as the process of losing water for some reason in which case only stillsuits can do that.
As I recall, all humans are constantly undergoing the process of dehydration. Drinking water counters the effects of this. It isn't a matter of "I drank a liter of water so I am not going to be dehydrated for a while", but of "I drank a liter of water so I am much less dehydrated now".
I'm pretty sure that drinking sufficient quantities of water regularly prevents dehydration from occurring in the first place. Unless you choose to define dehydration as the process of losing water for some reason in which case only stillsuits can do that.
As I recall, all humans are constantly undergoing the process of dehydration. Drinking water counters the effects of this. It isn't a matter of "I drank a liter of water so I am not going to be dehydrated for a while", but of "I drank a liter of water so I am much less dehydrated now".
It's still a stupid ruling.Then enlighten us, because everyone else in this thread is saying the opposite, so just coming and saying "it's stupid" is kind of insulting.
Fact: Dehydration comes from not having a sufficient amount of water in your body.
Fact: Drinking water increases the amount of water in your body.
Therefore, water can combat dehydration.
Therefore this ruling is stupid.
Fact: Dehydration comes from not having a sufficient amount of water in your body.The wording is "prevent," not "combat."
Fact: Drinking water increases the amount of water in your body.
Therefore, water can combat dehydration.
Therefore this ruling is stupid.
“If ever there were an episode which demonstrates the folly of the great European project then this is it.”
Anything you drink that hydrates you has water in it.Anything you eat, too :P
Then again, I go months without drinking just plain water.
Now see I got the impression that the scientists think a whole damn bunch of stuff can prevent dehydration.
Thus water isn't unique.
The stories in some of the newspapers this morning (18 November) do not quite capture the whole picture regarding the approval of health claims relating to water and hydration.
The European Food Safety Authority has been asked to rule on several ways of wording the statement that drinking water is good for hydration and therefore good for health. It rejected some wordings on technicalities, but it has supported claims that drinking water is good for normal physical and cognitive functions and normal thermoregulation. These recommended claims are awaiting formal confirmation from the European Commission.
EFSA recommends that, to benefit from the effects of drinking water, one should consume at least 2 litres of water a day, or 2.5 litres for a man. Water is the major component of all soft drinks.
Saying that water isn't unique in lowering dehydration because other things with water in them do so also is like saying that eating a pure glucose solution isn't the only way to fuel human metabolism because there are foods which contain glucose.But I thought you can use fatty acids in place of glucose. No such replacement exists for water.
It's like saying, this food cures hunger.To be fair, I think that if someone put a label on their food product that says "Cures hunger!" or "Prevents hunger!" nobody would have problem with it. In fact they would probably just get a chuckle out of it.
This is them just being assholes.
Saying that water isn't unique in lowering dehydration because other things with water in them do so also is like saying that eating a pure glucose solution isn't the only way to fuel human metabolism because there are foods which contain glucose.But I thought you can use fatty acids in place of glucose. No such replacement exists for water.
I think he was referring specifically to bottled water, rather than the chemical itself. I see the problem being in either the semantics of the word 'prevent', or the implication that bottled water and bottled water alone can cure dehydration.Now see I got the impression that the scientists think a whole damn bunch of stuff can prevent dehydration.
Thus water isn't unique.
Actually, yes, it is. Water is the only thing that can reliably and safely lower the level of dehydration in the human body. Everything you consume that lowers dehydration contains water.
Saying that water isn't unique in lowering dehydration because other things with water in them do so also is like saying that eating a pure glucose solution isn't the only way to fuel human metabolism because there are foods which contain glucose.
But I thought you can use fatty acids in place of glucose. No such replacement exists for water.The body uses different fuel sources for different reasons. Glucose is generally needed for short periods of intense activity, so you might be able to live without it, but it would be difficult. Not to mention any chemicals the body may create from it.
Vitamins might be a better example, since your body can't manufacture them (by definition).
Ah, nevermind - apparently Vitamin D is a vitamin much like "y" is a vowel.
Water can prevent dehydration, just gotta drink it every so often.No, drinking water simply forestalls dehydration and its subsequent consequences.
No, drinking water simply forestalls dehydration and its subsequent consequences.
Synonyms:[...]helpWait what?
QuoteNo, drinking water simply forestalls dehydration and its subsequent consequences.
Is there another definition of "prevent" that I'm unaware of?
"Prevent:
*to hold or keep back
*to interpose an obstacle''
Synonyms: avert, forestall, head off, help, obviate, preclude, stave off"
QuoteNo, drinking water simply forestalls dehydration and its subsequent consequences.
Is there another definition of "prevent" that I'm unaware of?
"Prevent:
*to hold or keep back
*to interpose an obstacle''
Synonyms: avert, forestall, head off, help, obviate, preclude, stave off"
Prevention implies that it will never happen.Citation?
You can prevent yourself from falling out a window by not going near windows.Until you go near a window, obviously.
You can prevent yourself from catching a cold by limiting your contact with people who have colds (actually, limit yourself from contact with all people. People are disgusting)Again, until you go near someone with a cold.
Next thing you know, water will be categorized as an addictive drug that humanity just happens to need every day.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax
Citation?
Yes, I don't know in the US but I've heard that drinking a lot of water prevent dehydration, as in, make you less prone to dehydration.
If that fact is false, as in drinking any liquid perform just as well, then it should not be on the bottles.
Hey, liquid oxygen is a liquid! I WILL DRINK IT FOR ANTI-DEHYDRATION!Yes, I don't know in the US but I've heard that drinking a lot of water prevent dehydration, as in, make you less prone to dehydration.
If that fact is false, as in drinking any liquid perform just as well, then it should not be on the bottles.
quote from the first page.. Any liquid?
Pretty sure that drinking 180 proof alcohol or mineral oil will not perform as well as water.
We know we won't be dehydrated if we drink it. Does it really matter what's on the label?
I was being deliberately pedantic and silly. This wasn't a real argument. I was pointing out how silly the whole thing is.You're face isn't a real argument. Also, I don't believe you. If you want to prove it wasn't a real argument, I expect references to third party sources providing evidentiary support for such a conclusion.
I assume it's the lack of minerals?Wouldn't that be malnutrition?
Specifically, a lack of salts which prevent the body from using the water. Which you lose when you sweat.Right but dehydration is a loss of water, not a lack of salt. So... if anything a lack of salt would be malnutrition.
No. Because having a lack of salts means that you can drink all the water you want, but not get hydrated.But the lack of salts isn't a lack of water which is what dehydration is!
Lack of salt causes a disability to absorb said water though.Maybe when you lack salts you are... desalinated?
Throw out all your electronic devices, we're starting over with magic instead.Sounds good. I'll start researching elemental alchemy right away.
No, no, MAGIC!No no no, magic is measured in Merlins and science is measured in Newtons. This is entirely different!
It sounds like the equivalent of somebody saying, "Hitler was right that a vegetarian diet can be healthy" and everybody starts shouting that I said "Hitler was right".
"Hitler was right".REPORTED YOU TERRIBAD PERSON
"Eating significant amounts of Pringles can help prevent a lack of Pringle-powder in your organism."
Drowning. That cures dehydration - permenantly.DEATH CURES ALL ILLNESSES EVEN AGING