If you are planning to conceive, you no longer need to depend on luck to have a baby of the gender you desire. If you want to conceive a girl, you simply need to cut down on your calorie intake and if you want a boy, just take a diet rich in calories. According to recent research findings of the British scientists of Exeter and Oxford universities the gender of the conceived fetus depends on the diet that a woman takes during conception. The lower the energy levels of food consumed, the more the chances of conceiving a female.
According to Fiona Mathews of the University of Exeter, it is seen that women in developed countries are highly calorie conscious. This explains the probability of conception of a male child going down over the years in these countries. It has been observed that when a pregnant woman skips her breakfast, she is actually cutting down on her blood glucose levels. High glucose levels support the development of a male fetus and restrain the growth of a female fetus. A study on 740 first-time pregnant British women showed that 56% of those who took a maximum energy diet gave birth to boys while only 45% of those who took a minimum energy diet gave birth to boys.
In terms of evolutionary aspects, a high energy diet intake would support the development of a male child who would be strong enough to propagate his family.
Via: Reuters
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Skip breakfast and have a girl - who will also most likely skip breakfast. :)
Rubbish! I have 2 dolls and not because i was skipping my breakfast when i was carrying them. This is purely based on the union of chromosomes and yes, a lot of luck and destiny too!
of course it is genetic combination that ultimaltey determines the sex of the fetus. If you read carefully, they have given a scientific treatment from the point the conception takes place. Of course this is just a study and might not be universally applicable. As far as luck goes, nowadays people are able to get a fetus of their desied gender thruogh scientific methodologies. It is no longer a matter of luck.
Very strange findings I must say. I had heard some myths about how a woman looks when she is conceiving a girl or a boy. Never heard about this one. Lets see whether this has some tinges of truth in it or not!
Oh God, if deciding the sex of the comming baby is so simple than why there should be quarrel and torture of brides just because of giving birth to a girl child? These are all rubbishhhhhh I must say! It all depends on the union of chromosomes, at that particular day. Rest is false!
My wife never eats breakfat, and we have 2 biys and a girl (thank God it’s not true, I don’t what I’d do with 3 girls :), but I can say her eating habits and cravings were very different with the boys compared to our daughter.
Hi Oscar…Thanks for dropping in. Like many out here even I find the study out here to be pretty weird. But I am not totally denying it because many scientific findings do look weird till they are well established and accepted
Hi Sasmita… nice to see you here, this study does look as illogical as torturing women for giving birth to girl children. But then let’s see if this study can lead to any confirmatory results.
This is absolute rubbish. My mom gained 50 pounds while pregnant with me in hopes that I’d be a boy and well, I dissappointed. Then, when pregnant for the second time, my mother had gestational diabetes and was put on a strict diet where she only gained 10 pounds the entire pregnancy, and guess what, it was a BOY.