I am so tired of seeing women get crap here because they're thinking about having a glass of wine _once a week_. Thirty-two Americans invariably show up to say "I can't think for myself, so I don't believe you should, either. I am unaware of, or ill-able to read and understand, research. Scare tactics sure work on me. Etc."
"The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists recently conducted a large study including 400,000 American women, all of whom had consumed alcohol during pregnancy. Not a single case of fetal alcohol syndrome occurred and no adverse effects on children were found when consumption was under 8.5 drinks per week.
A recent review of research studies found that fetal alcohol syndrome only occurs among alcoholics. The evidence is clear that there is no apparent risk to a child when the pregnant woman consumes no more than one drink per day."
http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/FetalAlcoholSyndrome.html
So why is it still claimed otherwise, here?
2006-12-20
00:18:43
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