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Boy-crazy and pregnant
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Thursday, 11 March 2010Healthy babies are apparently not enough according to a new study promoting early diet habits to ensure the likelihood of a boy and the rise in the number of well-to-do Indians aborting female fetuses.
On March 8, in the early edition online ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers concluded that a woman’s diet at time of conception could play an integral role in the gender of the child.
The study findings concluded that high caloric diets with a good amount of breakfast cereals led to male babies while low caloric intake produced more girls.
The researchers noted, “The reason why a maternal high fat, low carbohydrate diet favours survival of sons and a maternal low fat, high carbohydrate diet results in more daughters continues to elude us.”
However “the more women ate the more likely she was to have a boy. Women who had sons were also more likely to have eaten a higher quantity and wider range of nutrients including potassium, calcium and vitamins C, E and B12.”
The study’s lead researcher, Fiona Mathews, PhD, mammalian biologist at the University of Exeter’s School of Biosciences, said: “this research may help to explain why in developed countries, where many young women choose to have low calorie diets, the proportion of boys born is falling. .. Continue reading
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