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Can Diet Determine a Baby's Sex? Poppycock!

April 23, 2008 03:33 PM ET | Deborah Kotz | Permanent Link | Print

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Thanks for your post on this. I really believe that what a woman eats can help determine the gender. I even asked my obgyn. Me and my husband are thiking of getting a boy diet plan from this internet based company called www.boygirldiet.com Has anybody else heard of this company? Although we really want a boy we will be happy regardless if it's a boy or girl as long as it's healthy

Poll

I think your poll is rather simplistic, especially given the text of the article. Would I take SOME steps to influence the sex of my baby, such as having sex on certain days versus others? Yes, because there are no potential affects to the baby's health or to mine, and there is some evidence that it might work. Would I go much further than that? No. So what am I to answer to your poll? It seems that in this (as in other polls on this site) you are asking questions that allow you to paint somewhat "shocking" results, though the truth may be far more nuanced than you allow.

A complete non-sense

I heard a joke sometime back, saying a researcher conducted a study on cockroach by removing its legs one by one and saying "Stop now" after removing each leg. And concluded that cockroach start to hear after you take out its two legs. The study here reminds me of how people correlate things and just want to publish without ever thinking of any proper and right explanation.

Btw, if someone wants to research another correlation here it is - if you have sex during the winter you most like to have a baby girl. Here are the observations:

1) In countries where there are prolonged winters usually the females are more than males.

2) 9 months + the winter seasons range, you find most of the girls b'day!

3) In reptiles gender is controlled by the temperature (may be somewhere down the evolution tree we are all linked)

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Deborah Kotz, senior writer for U.S. News & World Report, covers everything women care about when it comes to their health. She's often tapping out "Oprah-esque" confessions about how the latest news relates to her personally—whether it's on breast cancer, contraception or easing work-family stress. She'd love to hear your confessions too at onwomen@usnews.com. Also, you can follow Deborah on Twitter at twitter.com/debkotz2.

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