Studies say that a pregnant woman's choice of food during the course of the conception period will determine the sex of the baby.
A high-fat diet and eating a regular full breakfast, for instance, increases the possibility of having a boy rather than a girl.
On the other hand, a low-fat diet will most likely produce a baby girl.
This high-calorie diet that favours birth of males and the low-calorie diet that favours female births, according to the University of Missouri's Dr.
Cheryl Rosenfield, has been consistent with their research findings.
She said that in studies of both humans and mice, the food restriction as well as the "suboptimal diet" around the conception period leads to more daughters, rather than sons being born.
This is most likely because of the "selective loss" of male foetuses which is considered the more susceptible sex in a mother's womb.
The genes found in the placentas of pregnant mice which were fed with food high in carbohydrates or fats and with low calorie planned diets proved that each one manifested these results.
However, a third group in the same study which was provided a regular soy-bean meal-based diet did not produce any distinct signs to support a similar result that may determine the gender of the child.
The same study also reveals that with the changes in sex, female foetuses and their genes were found to be more sensitive to possible alteration or effects based on their mother's diets compared to male foetuses and their genes.
Differences were found in close to 2,000 genes studied after over half of the pregnant mice's terms, or twelve days of the study.
This interesting research was performed two years ago and was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences which focused on the effects of pregnant women's diet intake around the conception period in relation to the development or production of genes that supports the determination of a child's sex.
The same research also showed that a high-calorie diet for conceiving women will most likely shift the chances of having a male child from ten to eleven percent for every twenty child births.
Pregnant women who turned out to have given births to male babies rather than females were also more likely to have consumed larger quantities of food and with diverse nutrients.
These include calcium, vitamins C, E and B12 and potassium, as well as have been regularly eating their breakfasts.
Interestingly, the last forty years has since shown a slight yet consistent decrease of males being born to mothers in around one in every 1,000 births a year in United Kingdom and other industrialised countries.
The same study on pregnancy suggests that this could be attributed to the eating patterns of women today possibly because of the changing lifestyles that include skipping breakfasts and eating low-fat meals or diets.
Meanwhile, there are varying risks for diseases which are expected to manifest during adulthood which most likely influenced by the mother's diet or health condition during her period of pregnancy.
This means that babies of mothers who were obese have higher chances of becoming obese and would suffer from diabetics as well in their adulthood.
A high-fat diet and eating a regular full breakfast, for instance, increases the possibility of having a boy rather than a girl.
On the other hand, a low-fat diet will most likely produce a baby girl.
This high-calorie diet that favours birth of males and the low-calorie diet that favours female births, according to the University of Missouri's Dr.
Cheryl Rosenfield, has been consistent with their research findings.
She said that in studies of both humans and mice, the food restriction as well as the "suboptimal diet" around the conception period leads to more daughters, rather than sons being born.
This is most likely because of the "selective loss" of male foetuses which is considered the more susceptible sex in a mother's womb.
The genes found in the placentas of pregnant mice which were fed with food high in carbohydrates or fats and with low calorie planned diets proved that each one manifested these results.
However, a third group in the same study which was provided a regular soy-bean meal-based diet did not produce any distinct signs to support a similar result that may determine the gender of the child.
The same study also reveals that with the changes in sex, female foetuses and their genes were found to be more sensitive to possible alteration or effects based on their mother's diets compared to male foetuses and their genes.
Differences were found in close to 2,000 genes studied after over half of the pregnant mice's terms, or twelve days of the study.
This interesting research was performed two years ago and was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences which focused on the effects of pregnant women's diet intake around the conception period in relation to the development or production of genes that supports the determination of a child's sex.
The same research also showed that a high-calorie diet for conceiving women will most likely shift the chances of having a male child from ten to eleven percent for every twenty child births.
Pregnant women who turned out to have given births to male babies rather than females were also more likely to have consumed larger quantities of food and with diverse nutrients.
These include calcium, vitamins C, E and B12 and potassium, as well as have been regularly eating their breakfasts.
Interestingly, the last forty years has since shown a slight yet consistent decrease of males being born to mothers in around one in every 1,000 births a year in United Kingdom and other industrialised countries.
The same study on pregnancy suggests that this could be attributed to the eating patterns of women today possibly because of the changing lifestyles that include skipping breakfasts and eating low-fat meals or diets.
Meanwhile, there are varying risks for diseases which are expected to manifest during adulthood which most likely influenced by the mother's diet or health condition during her period of pregnancy.
This means that babies of mothers who were obese have higher chances of becoming obese and would suffer from diabetics as well in their adulthood.
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