Why born there more girls than boys? A British study provides a preliminary answer: because of our diet. The researchers suggest that those arrangements of the mother influence the sex of the unborn baby.
According to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society, the food is one of the elements that influence the sex of the unborn baby.
The study included 740 women pregnant for the first time and did not know the sex of the unborn baby. The researchers asked them to provide an accurate record of their eating habits before and during pregnancy. Depending on the total calorie intake, these mothers were classified into three groups.
Finding: Women who consumed more daily calories were 56% to give birth to boys as against 45% among those who had energy intake as low.
A diet rich in calories, but also could lead to varied tip the scales in favor of boys. Indeed, the birth of small males was also linked to a varied diet rich in elements like potassium, calcium and vitamins C, E and B12. Researchers have also shown some correlation between consumption of breakfast cereal and the birth of a boy.
Is it to change his diet in hopes of having a boy or a girl? Prudence. We are still far to say that food determines the sex of the newborn, this study suggests just a possible relationship between diet and sex of the baby. Only one intervention study in which mothers would follow two different regimes, would formally conclude.
For researchers, meanwhile, this relationship could help explain the deficit of male births affecting industrialized countries for 40 years. "In this country many women adopt diets low in calories, which could explain why the proportion of boys born is falling," said Dr. Fiona Matthews from the University of Exeter, lead author of the study.
In the 70 French researchers already had asked pregnant women to follow certain diets: one rich in sodium and potassium and the other rich in calcium and magnesium, the first to give birth to boys, girls second. If the results were conclusive, the method of intervention study has yet been questioned.
According to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society, the food is one of the elements that influence the sex of the unborn baby.
The study included 740 women pregnant for the first time and did not know the sex of the unborn baby. The researchers asked them to provide an accurate record of their eating habits before and during pregnancy. Depending on the total calorie intake, these mothers were classified into three groups.
Finding: Women who consumed more daily calories were 56% to give birth to boys as against 45% among those who had energy intake as low.
A diet rich in calories, but also could lead to varied tip the scales in favor of boys. Indeed, the birth of small males was also linked to a varied diet rich in elements like potassium, calcium and vitamins C, E and B12. Researchers have also shown some correlation between consumption of breakfast cereal and the birth of a boy.
Is it to change his diet in hopes of having a boy or a girl? Prudence. We are still far to say that food determines the sex of the newborn, this study suggests just a possible relationship between diet and sex of the baby. Only one intervention study in which mothers would follow two different regimes, would formally conclude.
For researchers, meanwhile, this relationship could help explain the deficit of male births affecting industrialized countries for 40 years. "In this country many women adopt diets low in calories, which could explain why the proportion of boys born is falling," said Dr. Fiona Matthews from the University of Exeter, lead author of the study.
In the 70 French researchers already had asked pregnant women to follow certain diets: one rich in sodium and potassium and the other rich in calcium and magnesium, the first to give birth to boys, girls second. If the results were conclusive, the method of intervention study has yet been questioned.
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