According to the British \”Daily Telegraph\” report on March 8, scientists from the University of Missouri in the United States said that for women who have just been fertilized and are in the early stages of pregnancy, a hearty breakfast and a high-fat, high-energy diet will increase the chance of giving birth to a boy. Pregnant women who eat relatively bland or very little food have a greater chance of giving birth to a girl.
According to the report, there is a proverb in Western countries, \”If you want to have a boy, eat more meat\”, and the research results of the University of Missouri just confirm this traditional view.
Scientists at the University of Missouri conducted a two-year study to explore the impact of diet on a baby\’s sex. The researchers divided pregnant mice into three groups. One group was fed a high-fat and high-calorie diet, one group was fed a low-calorie diet, and the third group was fed a normal diet based on soy.
Finally, after DNA testing, the researchers found that there were very significant differences in the genes of the abdominal embryos of the three groups of experimental mice. In addition to sex differences, the scientists also noticed that female mouse embryos were more sensitive to their mother\’s diet, with genes more likely to be altered by dietary changes.
Dr. Rosenfeld, the University of Missouri scientist who led the study, said: \”We found that women who had a poor diet or dieted at the onset of fertilization and early pregnancy were more likely to have daughters, primarily because of the fittest male embryos compared to female embryos. Vulnerable.
Dr. Rosenfeld says that regularly eating a large breakfast and high-calorie foods during pregnancy and early in pregnancy does significantly increase the chance of having a boy.
In addition, the scientists also came to an interesting conclusion. Even if the son of an obese mother is born with a normal weight, he is more likely to become obese when he grows up than his sister. Caloric diet related.