Binge-drinking 'may not hurt the unborn'

News.com.au ^ | November 14, 2007 | By Mark Schliebs and Reuters

[SubGeniusX]

PREGNANT women can indulge in binge-drinking without doing any harm to their unborn child, new research suggests.

Oxford University’s Jane Henderson and Ron Gray, along with the Danish researcher Ulrik Kesmodel from the University of Aarhus, argued that there was not enough evidence linking alcohol to fetal problems.

In their Systematic review of the fetal effects of prenatal binge drinking report published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, the researchers said that they examined thousands of papers on the subject.

A number of studies have linked heavy drinking on a regular basis during pregnancy to stunted growth, birth defects and brain development problems.

Less clear is the effect of occasional binge drinking, which amounted to about five drinks in one session in the studies Mr Gray and his team reviewed.

The researchers initially identified more than 3500 scientific papers between 1970 and 2005 looking at pregnancy and alcohol, which they winnowed down to 14 focusing on binge-drinking.

They found little substantive evidence binge drinking once in a while caused problems such as miscarriage, stillbirth, abnormal birth weight, or birth defects such as fetal alcohol syndrome.

[SubGeniusX]

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See! I told you so!

[3AngelaD]

Well, whoever did this study will be taken out and shot.

[weegee]

She looks like Chuck Schumer and Sinead O’Conner’s lovechild.

[Blue Highway]

Pro abortionists must be very happy to hear this news. They will be happy even if they can’t kill the kid, as long as it has defects they will be happy.

[wideawake]

Good news. Because if it wasn’t for the putative damage to the unborn child, binge-drinking would be a highly recommended activity for expectant mothers to indulge in.

[SubGeniusX]

PREGNANT women can indulge in binge-drinking without doing any harm to their unborn child, new research suggests.

Ping!

[wastedyears]

Well binge drinking certainly makes me feel like crap for a day or two. I don’t have the anatomy to bear a child but I don’t condone binge drinking.

[ozarkgirl]

What I don’t understand is...why take the chance? Perhaps it doesn’t hurt baby but maybe it does. Best to not drink at all while pregnant.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Totally wrong.

[SubGeniusX]

Why?

[RichInOC]

Okay...but how do they get the booze up there in the first place?

[Slapshot68]

Drunk driving, lack of balance/coordination, etc. Yeah, no dangers there.

What a moronic study.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

ACK....my eyes.

[durasell]

Binge-drinking ‘may not hurt the unborn’

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Particularly if it’s the father doing the drinking.

[Badeye]

Its been my experience binge drinking is what produces many births in the first place.....

[JSDude1]

This study is full of &%*@!

[Vaquero]

you know...you shouldn’t mess with substances while pregnant...thats it, period.

Don’t take chances.

[Constantine XIII]

Impact Factor: 2.805 (2006)

Look, they published in a journal no one reads. SURPRISE!

[shbox]

>>>>Oxford University’s Jane Henderson and Ron Gray, along with the Danish researcher Ulrik Kesmodel from the University of Aarhus,.....

>>>>>>>published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, the researchers said that they examined thousands of papers on the subject

Well, whoever did this study will be taken out and shot.

What does your report say???? I am sure you have done one right?

..and you say 'taken out and shot'. You mean, with a gun as in killed? What about their families? What are you going to tell their wives and husbands and children after you kill them?

[fireforeffect]

Binge Drinking = 1 glass of wine with dinner once in a while.

To the prohibitionist, any drinking is alcoholism.