Re: tears  chris brochu ( 25 Oct 1995 00:07:27 GMT  In article
<46gcdn$> Tom Clarke, 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.