[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.

[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.