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There's an old wives tale that eating bananas for breakfast will help women give birth to a boy, and a new study out of England claims that, to some extent, the tale is true: having a high potassium intake as well as a high sodium intake during conception can make women more likely to mother males. The research, which was published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences and comes out of the universities of Exeter and Oxford, also reports that women who skip breakfast or keep to restrictive diets are more likely to have girls. According to head researcher Fiona Mathews, "This research may help to explain why in developed countries, where many young women choose to have low-calorie diets, the proportion of boys born is falling." More »
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