Can mothers to be affect the sex of their baby?
New British research claims that potassium rich foods, including bananas, and not skipping breakfast, raise the odds of having a boy.
Matches evidence that male embryos during in-vitro fertilization thrive best with exposure to nutritrient rich lab cultures. Skipping breakfast results in low blood sugar, which may be harmful to male embryos.
Scientists are still trying to determine if a greater percentage of these test tube babies will grow up with a craving for the material used to culture petri dishes, agar-agar.
The study, involving 700 first-time pregnant women in the UK, was published Wednesday in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a British medical journal. The study found higher caloric intake women had 56% boys. omen eating one bowl of breakfast cerial a day were 87% more likely to have boys.
Dr. Michael Lu, an associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and public health at the University of California at Los Angeles, said the results "are certainly plausible from an evolutionary biology perspective." In other words, since boys tend to be bigger, it would make sense that it would take more calories to create them, Lu said.
Some studies in animals reflect the same findings.
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