Diet in pregnancy and baby gender
March 10, 2010 |15:52 | Diet | Exercise | Tips By : Team X
“What women eat while they are in the early stages of pregnancy influences the sex and health of their unborn baby”, The Daily Telegraph reported. It said that eating breakfast and a high fat diet around the time of conception made it more likely the offspring would be a boy.
The newspaper article is actually reporting two different studies. The findings about the effect of a high fat diet and breakfast on a child’s gender are from a study in humans that the newspaper says was published two years ago.


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