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EU Officials make it against the law to claim that water prevents dehydration
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Well, I guess that's a fair argument?
This sounds like science being twisted to achieve a political end i.e. exposing the bottled water industry as a massive rip-off. They probably shouldn't be allowed to promote their water as preventing dehydration because (a) all water does, not just their brand, so it's a meaningless claim to make and (b) who the hell, in the target market for bottled water, gets dehydrated these days anyway?
Professional athletes maybe, but they know the risks. The claim is just pandering to the silly idea that women's magazines promote that you have to drink massive quantities of water all day or you'll get dehydrated.
This reminds of candy companies in Holland getting slapped on the fingers for claiming their products had zero percent fat and stimulated the brain activity(because hey, sugars fuel your whole body!).
...Problems?
Of course, funnyguts' comment is making me wonder if maybe the officials did say this and the article just did some trimming...
Salt water.
Alcoholic drinks.
>an day
What the fuck man.
Well certainly not deathly so, but depressingly few people drink enough water to sufficiently flush their systems, and a lot of what they do drink is loaded with sodium or alcohol. It can contribute to all kinds of long-term health issues.
That said, this feels like a cringeworthy idiot law used to target a business that feeds off cringeworthy idiocy in the first place, so blargh.
business that feeds off cringeworthy idiocy in the first place, so
blargh.
Astutely put.