Sunday, April 27, 2008

can eating decide if a baby will be a boy or a girl?

This article is informing us that Biologist in England experimented 740 first-time mothers on their pre-pregnancy eating habits and found that:
56 percent of those on high-calorie diets had sons
compared with 45 percent of those on leaner menus.

They also found out that it was not only calories that helped; but specific foods. "Prior to pregnancy, breakfast cereal, but no other food, was strongly associated with the childs sex" "Women producing male infants consumed more breakfast cereal than those with female infants."

Why does this happen?
It is really a mystery, that scientist are trying to find out but a scientist thinks that glucose may be the answer. Women who do not eat breakfast usually to have low levels of glucose, and other studies have shown that glucose helps the growth of male fetuses in vitro.
This scientists says that low glucose levels may indicate to the body that food is little (not enough), signaling that it would be better to produce a female fetus, which has been found to need less energy to grow. Scientists have also found that cows, deer and horses produce more male babies when they have bountiful diets.

my opinion
I think this is an interesting article, though at first I thought that it was not real, and I thought that it was not possible to have a babie and the sex would be different depending of what you ate, but after reading all the article, and thinking about it, it doesent seem that impossible, because if you think about it, the babie recieves almost everything you eat if you are pregnant, and the food helps the babie grow and develop, and in the article it says that it is prooven that a female fetus needs les energy to develop or grow. So after reading the article I think that it is really interesting and i think that it can be true, though i dont think food can affect or decide completly what sex the babie is going to be, i think it can affect, and it is really possible! I did ot have an idea of this and i found it really interesting, I likes the article alot and would like to learn more about it!
Maria Rubio

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