So, I get online yesterday and the first news story is about our diet. No, it isn’t that we should eat better or that organic vegatables are the way to go. No, it is about a woman’s diet determining the sex of her baby. Seriously. I about fell out of my chair. You can read it yourself here.
Now, I am pretty sure that I remember that a baby’s sex is determined by two chromosomes; an X and a Y. I also remember that women only carry the X chromosome and that men carry both the X and the Y. Ok. We all have that, right? Cool. At conception, two haploid sets of chromosomes come together to make the map work for a unique human being. Very cool. That baby will either be a boy or a girl depending on which chromosome got first prize an X or a Y. We all get that, right?
Ok, so who in the world spent time financing this study? Are there people out there that are going to actually believe that our diet can determine the sex of our unborn baby? If anything I would be looking at the diet of the guys. This is a ridiculous study. Nothing like going backwards. I am flabbergasted. That is all I can say.
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I saw that this morning, too! I don’t get it either, how could the study possibly have proven that it was not the zillions of other variables in life? but now it’s out there it’s going to be added to the other lists of useless information for pregnant women: if you want to have a boy, eat lots of bananas!
Well that is stupid. That study is money well spent…NOT! LOL
I ate the same diet with all four of my kids and I had one boy and three girls!
That’s just nonsense. LOL I’m stunned that they’d even wonder about that much less bother good people with their silly questionnaires.
I’ve heard this from actual people that I’ve personally spent time with. I didn’t believe it then nor do I believe it now.
As far as I’m concerned God chose the gender of my children not me or my husband and what we ate. or didn’t eat for that matter. All I did was to pray for a healthy baby and asked that I could have a boy and then a girl. God answered my prayer.
We heard this on the radio the other day. Crazy.
All any person has to do is to look at the demographics of poor countries and they will find that birth rates are pretty much the same 1.0? boys/girls. Based on 2007 figures from indexmundi .com, who get their info from CIA World Factbook, United States and Afghanistan share the same boy/girl rate of 1.05 male(s)/female.
That is an interesting site, Donna. I flipped through a bunch of birth rate figures for countries all over the world and everyone is pretty close. I just can’t believe that people would waste their time studying something like this. There is a joke that pilots tend to have girls, but even that makes more sense than this study and it is only a joke!