STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 12 (UPI) -- Swedish officials say women who are breastfeeding their children can have a glass of wine or two without harming their infants.
The National Food Administration wants to make the revision in nutritional directives, which previously called for women to abstain from alcohol while nursing, the news program Aktuellt said.
"There has been much greater interest in dietary advice in general during pregnancy and breastfeeding. And we have been told that much of the advice is considered tricky to follow. There was a need to modernize it," the agency's head dietitian Annica Sohlstrom told the Swedish news agency TT/The Local.
The administration said one or two glasses of wine once or twice a week shouldn't create a health problem. Officials plan to present the new recommendation this summer.
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