What mom eats can decide boy or girl
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That could be what little boys are made of, according to surprising new research suggesting that what a woman eats before pregnancy influences the gender of her baby.
Having a hearty appetite, eating potassium-rich foods including bananas, and not skipping breakfast all seemed to raise the odds of having a boy.
The British research is billed as the first in humans to show a link between a woman's diet and whether she has a boy or girl.
It is not proof, but it fits with evidence from test tube fertilization that male embryos thrive best with longer exposure to nutrient-rich lab cultures, said Dr. Tarun Jain. He is a fertility specialist at University of Illinois at Chicago who wasn't involved in the study.
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Varex_Sythe
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I agree with Cheyroze, though I will go as far to say that this is an idiotic claim. The child's gender is determined by what specific sperm fertilizes the egg. The male genetic code is the one that possesses both one X and one Y chromosome. The female genetic code possesses only two X chromosomes. So to be blunt, the mother really has nothing to do with choosing the child's gender unless the parents decide to do artificial insemination and can/could choose a sperm cell with enough accuracy to determine the sex of the baby.
- 4 years ago
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Varex_Sythe
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cheyroze
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No, no, no. What decides if a child is a boy is a 'Y' chromosome. Its completely up to the father, er, uh sperm... as the woman's ova are all 'X' chromosomes.
This study says that the male zygote will SURVIVE longer if the mother eats a certain way.
- 4 years ago
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cheyroze
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sarahjesse
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That's interesting. If I ever decide to have children, I will remember this.
- 4 years ago
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sarahjesse
