Friday, September 18, 2009
Scientists at Britain’s Oxford and Exeter universities have concluded that a mother's eating habits around the time of conception can influence the sex of her baby. It seems women who eat high calorie diets are more likely to give birth to a male child than women on restricted diets.
An article in the Guardian quotes Fiona Mathews, a specialist in mammalian biology at Exeter University, who led the research, as saying:
We were able to confirm the old wives' tale that eating bananas and so having a high potassium intake was associated with having a boy, as was a high sodium intake. But the old tale about drinking a lot of milk to have a girl doesn't seem to hold up. In fact, more calcium meant they were again more likely to have a boy.
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