Tuesday 29 June 2010

Health Scare Story Du Jour

The BBC have pulled out a corker:

Women who drink during pregnancy may be damaging the future fertility of their sons, research suggests. In a study of almost 350 young men, sperm levels were a third lower in those whose mothers had drunk more than four drinks a week during pregnancy compared with teetotallers.

The Danish researchers told a fertility conference these men may have a harder time getting their partner pregnant. UK experts said alcohol may not be the issue, but a marker for other factors...

4 comments:

Dick Puddlecote said...

Another guilt-inducer for pregnant women. I seem to remember a different study recently warning of damage to offspring in later life, though can't remember the terrifying health scare on that occasion.

JuliaM said...

Or it could just be that large quantities of alcopops make females more susceptible to lower-ranking, lesser males, who then father less well suited male children...

assegai mike said...

@JuliaM: Unfortunately, the knuckle-dragging lower-ranking lesser males to which you refer seem to have sperms like barracuda.

James Higham said...

Greater danger in not drinking at all.