Re: tears

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In article <46gcdn$3ks@longwood.cs.ucf.edu> Tom Clarke,
clarke@longwood.cs.ucf.edu writes:
>Not strictly true. Consider a person excreting tears and drinking
>water. Water and salt leaves the body, but only water enters, thus
>the amount of salt in the body decreases.
>

Only problem is that salt is replenished with solid food. This is why
crying isotonic tears does nothing to regulate salt balance - you can
drink all you want, but your body pees the excess out and you still bring
salt in.

I agree, though - this one is falsified. Let's drop it.

chris

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