Water is not healthy, right oh!

[Kayless]

http://www.express.co...-water-is-not-healthy
Do we really want to be involved with these nutters?

[andrew1707]

So why is it not re-hydrotion ???

[jno]

the Hydra was a water serpent. But the Express headline "Water is not healthy" simply isn't what the EU said, or even what the story says. You should know better than to quote the Express as an authority on anything, Kayless. What next, citing the Mail?

[Kayless]

Perhaps jno but it's the same bloke who was pushing the curvature of the banana rules so it needs airing!

[jackthehat]

Did you read Dave's post about what constitutes *medical* Rehydration?

For advertisers to claim that their bottled product offers the same 'powers' is misleading.

[Kayless]

yes but I imagine water is a vital part of rehydration.

[jackthehat]

Not over-priced 'bottled-at-source' designer water.......it will quench thirsts but to act as a medical rehydrant it will need additional salts and sugars.

[ChuckFickens]

Waters also a vital part of beer but that doesn't mean it would be acceptable to advertise it as beer.

(although fosters seem to get away with it)

[Kromovaracun]

"yes but I imagine water is a vital part of rehydration."

Of course it is, but if you'd bothered to read dave's post, you'd know that to attempt medical rehydration with just water on its own could be fatal.

Jeez, aren't you in Mensa?

[jake-the-peg]

Oh a "straight banana" story from Dirty Desmond's express

Immediately posted up by the Anti-EU Propaganda squad

In other shock News Tory's say Labour are Rubbish and McDonalds say Vegetarainism is overrated?

[jno]

the claim for the water wasn't that it was good for rehydration, but that it reduced the risk of dehydration in the first place. This isn't quite the same thing; but anyway the scientists said no it didn't.

Sounds like a case of a word having different meanings in everyday speech and medical terms (same as "schizophrenic"). In effect the EU has said that you can't use the word "dehydration" in its ordinary meaning because people might think it's the medical meaning and assume water will cure it, which it doesn't. That seems fair enough to me.

When the EU rules that you can't claim "water quenches thirst", then complain.

[emmie]

anyone else think that Barrosa is a lookalike to our own dear Bob Crow
kayless, that will get your blood coursing...

suggest that we ignore much of what comes out of the EU, the French seem to do all right.

[Kayless]

The French only obey the rules they like, we are unfortunately infiltrated by anti British, lefty Euphiles that obey all the rules so the Eu know they can make up any crackpot rule and the british will obey.

[Messi_Ten]

...and Kayless will fall for it!

[Kayless]

It ain't me that's falling for it!

[jno]

that's right, you stick with your Perrier next time you're dehydrated. You can always come on AB afterward and ask Sqad why you're dying.

[Quizmonster]

Andrew, it's not rehydrOtion for the simple reason that -ation is a standard suffix in English to indicate an action, process, condition or result. Thus, we have immigrAtion, consultAtion, relaxAtion and multitudes of similar instances.