Recipe for a son starts with daily bowl of cereal

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From The Times
April 23, 2008

Recipe for a son starts with daily bowl of cereal
Lewis Smith, Science Reporter (timesonline.co.uk)

Breakfasting on Shredded Wheat or cornflakes has been found to increase dramatically a woman’s chances of having sons instead of daughters. Up to 59 per cent of women who get pregnant after eating high-energy breakfasts end up giving birth to a son.
By contrast, researchers have found, only 43 per cent of women who always skipped breakfast before conceiving managed to produce boys.
When food consumption is considered across the whole day the pattern is repeated, with 56 per cent of women eating high-energy food having sons. Of the women on low-energy diets, only 45 per cent had boys.
The findings, the first direct evidence that what is on the menu can influence gender, suggest that preoccupation with dieting is increasing the proportion of baby girls.
Scientists said that the discovery of a link between calories and gender may explain why it is that in the past 40 years there has been a small but steady decline in the proportion of boys born in the developed world.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3799254.ece