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[forsaken1111]

Citation?

I was being deliberately pedantic and silly. This wasn't a real argument. I was pointing out how silly the whole thing is.

[Nadaka]

Yes, I don't know in the US but I've heard that drinking a lot of water prevent dehydration, as in, make you less prone to dehydration.
If that fact is false, as in drinking any liquid perform just as well, then it should not be on the bottles.

quote from the first page.. Any liquid?

Pretty sure that drinking 180 proof alcohol or mineral oil will not perform as well as water.

[forsaken1111]

Yes, I don't know in the US but I've heard that drinking a lot of water prevent dehydration, as in, make you less prone to dehydration.
If that fact is false, as in drinking any liquid perform just as well, then it should not be on the bottles.

quote from the first page.. Any liquid?

Pretty sure that drinking 180 proof alcohol or mineral oil will not perform as well as water.

Hey, liquid oxygen is a liquid! I WILL DRINK IT FOR ANTI-DEHYDRATION!

[GlyphGryph]

We know we won't be dehydrated if we drink it. Does it really matter what's on the label?

Well, I think this is the real issue. Water, especially highly filtered water, is not always enough to prevent dehydration, because not having enough water is one of two possible causes (and most causes of dehydration prevent both).

Gatorade is allowed to claim it prevents dehydration, I imagine, because it actually prevents both kinds, while water only prevents the one.

I was being deliberately pedantic and silly. This wasn't a real argument. I was pointing out how silly the whole thing is.

You're face isn't a real argument. Also, I don't believe you. If you want to prove it wasn't a real argument, I expect references to third party sources providing evidentiary support for such a conclusion.

[Leafsnail]

It could also be that saying a drink "prevents dehydration" is completely meaningless since basically all drinks are based on water and any drink based on water will hydrate you at least temporarily (other than extreme diuretics or stuff that makes you throw up).  So you ban a misleading claim that may imply that the drink is somehow better than normal water for hydration?

[Darvi]

I assume it's the lack of minerals?

[forsaken1111]

I assume it's the lack of minerals?

Wouldn't that be malnutrition?

[Dsarker]

Specifically, a lack of salts which prevent the body from using the water. Which you lose when you sweat.

[forsaken1111]

Specifically, a lack of salts which prevent the body from using the water. Which you lose when you sweat.

Right but dehydration is a loss of water, not a lack of salt. So... if anything a lack of salt would be malnutrition.

[Dsarker]

No. Because having a lack of salts means that you can drink all the water you want, but not get hydrated.

[forsaken1111]

No. Because having a lack of salts means that you can drink all the water you want, but not get hydrated.

But the lack of salts isn't a lack of water which is what dehydration is!

[Darvi]

Lack of salt causes a disability to absorb said water though.

[forsaken1111]

Lack of salt causes a disability to absorb said water though.

Maybe when you lack salts you are... desalinated?

 

[scriver]

The argument wasn't that no salt == dehydration, it was that not drinking water is not the only way to get dehydrated, hence a bottle of water can't promise it will prevent dehydration, because if the dehydration is caused by lack of salt drinking water won't do shit.

[Nilik]

First the speed of light and now this. Well that's it. Science is clearly wrong. All of it.

Throw out all your electronic devices, we're starting over with magic instead.