EU SAYS WATER IS NOT HEALTHY

express.co ^ | Friday November 18,2011 | Giles Sheldrick Exclusive

[weldAllday]

"In a scarcely believable ­ruling, a panel of experts threw out a claim that regular water consumption is the best way to rehydrate the body.

The bizarre diktat from Brussels has far-reaching implications..."

[commish]

What? Put water on the plants? You mean, like out of the toilet?

[DUMBGRUNT]

Would be funny if it were not true.
EU, US same mother different brother.
We have this here but they do a better job of concealing the stupidty.

[EEGator]

How come I ain’t never seen no plant growin’ in a toilet?

[SargeK]

[dfwgator]

I’ve been saying it for years, we need to ban dihyrdrogen monoxide, that stuff can kill you.

[EEGator]

I wonder what was used for fertilizer?

[SargeK]

Here in western Appalachia - who knows?

I don’t recommend bending close to smell the flowers though...

[FourPeas]

German professors Dr Moritz Hagenmeyer and Dr Andreas Hahn, of the Institute for Food Science and Human Nutrition at Hanover Leibniz University, applied for approval for the seemingly uncontentious claim that “regular consumption of significant amounts of water can reduce the risk of development of dehydration”. However, bureaucrats refused to back them.

After a meeting in Italy a delegation of scientists concluded that reduced water content in the body was a symptom of dehydration rather than a risk factor that drinking water could control. Now their verdict has been turned into a regulation that will become UK law by December 6 and is bound to send shockwaves through the soft drinks industry.

Sounds like something our FDA would so. Government agencies exist to employ those lacking common sense.

[Abathar]

"The EU has a long history of passing bizarre regulations, the most infamous being 1995 rules setting out dimensions for fruit and vegetables which led to excessively curved bananas and ugly carrots being banned."

Just... lol

[DManA]

reduced water content in the body was a symptom of dehydration rather than a risk factor that drinking water could control.

That is a tautology. Reduced water content in the body was a symptom of reduced water content in the body.

[dangus]

Actually, these ads selling bottled water as healthy ARE full of cr@p. What the EU said was that you couldn’t sell bottled water with the claim that it is healthy, with the inference being that it is a superior mode of hydration. Yes, you SHOULD have had a V8.

Forget the cr@p about 8 glasses of water. 4 cups of milk, 2 cups of vegetable juice and a gatorade of a dilute fruit juice will be much healthier.

[dangus]

Smart alecks and in the internet obliterate the ability to make any point. :^D

[SargeK]

Guilty as charged, your Honor!

[moose07]

A spokesman for the Department of Health said: “Of course water hydrates. While we support the EU in preventing false claims about commercial products, we need to exercise common sense as far as possible.”

The Penny might have dropped… (I’m trying not to laugh.)

Dumbasses...now confirmed.

Regards.

[SkyDancer]

Uh, they already have. CO2 emissions cause global climate change.

[blueunicorn6]

They banned ugly carrots? Boy, there’s people without enough real work to do.
“Egads! Francois! We have pulled up an ugly carrot!”
“How do we know it’s ugly?
“The EU uses THE BILL MAHER TEST. If the carrot looks like Bill Maher, then it is officially ugly.”
“Mon Dieu! That one looks just like Bill Maher! Quick! Put it back in the dirt! We’ll claim it’s a rutabaga.”

[Gil4]

My head hurts. Could I reduce the risk of that by not reading about stupid stuff liberals do, or is it merely a symptom of a headache?

[xp38]

It’s time to finally ban Dihydrogen Monoxide!!! http://www.dhmo.org/

[southernnorthcarolina]

OOH! EU EAU = EWW!

[arthurus]

Next they’ll declare that breathing is dangerous to the environment.

That is already implicit in the CO2 laws and regulations which we already have.