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Diet and the Sex of Your Baby


Mon, 05/04/2009 - 00:18 — Elizabeth

Have you ever wondered if what you eat before becoming pregnant determines whether you give birth to a boy or a girl?

Well, researchers at the University of Oxford in England wondered about this very question! They just published the results to their study where researchers followed 750 women who were all pregnant for the first time. They asked them about their diet before they became pregnant, and then also during their pregnancy.

The results were interesting:

65% of the women in the group who consumed the most calories and had the most variety in their diet were gave birth to a boy. These women were also most likely to have breakfast as well. On the flip side, 45% of the women in the group who consumed the fewest number of calories gave birth to a boy.

This was the first study of its kind…looking at the diet of humans and the sex of babies. There have been studies in the past however, which concluded that the animals who consume more calories have more male offspring.

Also interesting is that in the US and the UK, there are fewer and fewer boys born each year. The researchers believe that this is because there are so many women on low calorie diets in the west, and it is impacting the number of boys being born….

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