Brussels bureaucrats were ridiculed yesterday after banning drink manufacturers from claiming that water can prevent dehydration.EU officials concluded that, following a three-year investigation, there was no evidence to prove the previously undisputed fact.
Producers of bottled water are now forbidden by law from making the claim and will face a two-year jail sentence if they defy the edict, which comes into force in the UK next month.
Last night, critics claimed the EU was at odds with both science and common sense. Conservative MEP Roger Helmer said: “This is stupidity writ large.
“The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart and yet here they are: highly-paid, highly-pensioned officials worrying about the obvious qualities of water and trying to deny us the right to say what is patently true.
“If ever there were an episode which demonstrates the folly of the great European project then this is it.”
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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.”
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JLFRatcliffe is an ass. "Trying to imply" is not a claim at all and I've no idea how to get there from here; one either "implies" or one doesn't.
The EU is a collection of asses and the best thing for the European countries would be for it to FAIL.
That said, today's "wisdom" about the need to ingest vast quantities of water daily, and to constantly do so lest one should fall to dehydration in the sixty minutes it takes to drive to work
is utter bullsht. This medical "advice" has led to people constantly swigging from bottles, a coarse practice, every few minutes regardless of their level of physical inactivity by means of carrying them everywhere, and bearing the bottle in one's hand is a demonstration of one's virtuous dedication to "healthy" living. God forbid one should leave the house unaccompanied by one's beverage of choice -- the practice has now extended to fruit juice and soda -- and have to wait for a drink at one's destination.
My friend often comes to my house holding a half-drunk bottle of Pepsi, as though she's in fear she'll thirst enroute, and because I am known to deny my guests liquid refreshment upon their arrival.
Okay. Rant off.