Diet can determine baby's sex?
From the AP:
Fifty-six percent of the women in the group with the highest energy intake had sons, compared to 45 percent in the least-well fed cohort.
Beside racking up a higher calorie count, the group who produced more males were also more likely to have eaten a wider range of nutrients, including potassium, calcium and vitamins C, E and B12.
The odds of an XY, or male outcome to a pregnancy also went up sharply "for women who consumed at least one bowl of breakfast cereal daily compared with those who ate less than or equal to one bowl of week," the study reported.
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Interesting to see if this bears out in a large study.
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It doesn't make sense.\r
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There was a study done in American Asian patients that had 2+ kids. The law of averages says that after two girls, your chance of having a boy was about 1.06 to 1, so slightly elevated. This retrospective study showed that it was 1.5 to 1. The parents were \"selecting\" gender, they think, either through fertilized eggs or through selective (late) abortion.