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If you look at all the vitamin bottles, they all say This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, or prevent any disease
Yeah..... and? Something being "healthy" for you does not imply it "cures/prevents a specific disease."
The primary purpose of that warning is that it first and foremost serves as a protectionist effort to prevent a reoccurrence of the days when people misrepresented products (e.g. "elixirs") as "medicine," when they were not "medicine." It is not to be taken as a statement of scientific fact that certain activities (exercise), certain foods and liquids, do not have a beneficial effect one ones life functions. No nourishment or rehydration = you are dead.
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could you point out how the following statement is inaccurate, hammy?
“regular consumption of significant amounts of water can reduce the risk of development of dehydration”
I believe hammertime is confusing regular water with distilled water. Which is bad, because drinking distilled water can be deadly when you collapse from cardiac arrest after several days
Causes of dehydration; diarrhea, vomiting, excessive urination caused by diabetes or kidney disease, diuretic medications. In each case it would not matter how much water you drank you would still become dehydrated.
As in the bottom of the linked to story:
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.
He said: “The EU is saying that this does not reduce the risk of dehydration and that is correct.
“This claim is trying to imply that there is something special about bottled water which is not a reasonable claim.”
Dehydration is not usually caused by a clinical condition. That's the minority of cases and is a TEMPORARY situation. Most dehydration cases are from people not drinking enough fluids (I.E WATER) when out exercising or working in the heat. The EU is just a loony bastion of ill thinking people.
Also, explain how someone can remain adequately hydrated without drinking water? What are they drinking then? It absolutely is something that is MADE FROM WATER!
Yes, europe is wonderful... Let's just look at the examples of Greece, Italy and Spain for starters... Yes sir, these are the people we need to emulate.
America is right behind them. You like most Americans don't get it....the same people financially imploding those countries are doing the exact same thing to America. We might have a year or two before we go the way of Greece, Spain and Italy ourselves.
Yeah..... and? Something being "healthy" for you does not imply it "cures/prevents a disease."
The purpose of that warning is a protectionist effort to prevent a reoccurrence of the days when people misrepresented products (e.g. "elixirs") as "medicine," when they were not "medicine."
I'd like to meet the meat head that thinks water is a medicine.
I believe hammertime is confusing regular water with distilled water. Which is bad, because drinking distilled water can be deadly when you collapse from cardiac arrest after several days
..only if said distilled water is your only possible source of electrolytes, which is hardly the norm.
even our own national institutes of health says -
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Dehydration can be caused by losing too much fluid, not drinking enough water or fluids, or both.
Yeah..... and? Something being "healthy" for you does not imply it "cures/prevents a disease."
The purpose of that warning is a protectionist effort to prevent a reoccurrence of the days when people misrepresented products (e.g. "elixirs") as "medicine," when they were not "medicine."
I know. I wasn't countering your point, I was reinforcing it. The FDA says you need vitamins and minerals for normal body function (and to help prevent disease) but private companies are not allowed to say that is what the point of my post was
Another distorted and misleading thread title. The commission did not claim or conclude that "water does not hydrate the body". It concluded that it is inaccurate - and therefore impermissible - for bottled water to claim that drinking their product will prevent or treat dehydration.
That's true. Drinking water doesn't not prevent dehydration and in many cases of dehydration drinking water is not sufficient to treat it (it doesn't replace electrolytes nor stop or prevent continued fluid loss). I think it would be strange to allow bottled water retailers to print inaccurate and wrong medical information on their products.
Amen. A simple fact that appears to be too much for many with brain (but refuse to put it to use for anything but regurgitating non-sense).
You never see a european drinking a glass of water. Only wine. Its because of the fluoride. They're protecting their precious bodily fluids. Its all about water. The world is 70% water. We're 70% water.
..only if said distilled water is your only possible source of electrolytes, which is hardly the norm.
even our own national institutes of health says -
Exactly. Most people are not going to dehydrate from lack of water. If your body is losing too much water, most likely it's kidney failure or a hormone imbalance and the latter is usually a tumor
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America is right behind them. You like most Americans don't get it....the same people financially imploding those countries are doing the exact same thing to America. We might have a year or two before we go the way of Greece, Spain and Italy ourselves.
