Wed, Apr-23-08, 09:17
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Senior Member
Posts: 5,323
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Plan: food? what's food?
Stats: 234/185/165
BF:nothin' but wobble
Progress: 71%
Location: YAY! trees and grass!
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*falls off her chair laughing her ass off, making every person in a 100' radius of her office poke their heads out and wonder what space aliens have overtaken her body and caused an apoplexy*
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Fiona Mathews of the University of Exeter in Britain and colleagues wanted to find out if a woman's diet has an impact on the sex of her offspring.
So they asked 740 first-time mothers who did not know if their unborn foetuses were male or female to provide detailed records of eating habits before and after they became pregnant. The women were split into three groups according to the number calories they consumed per day around the time of conception.
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these guys need to go back to high school health class. the female has absolutely no control over and no input in whether the baby she carries is male or female. all eggs carry the X chromosome. it's the sperm that carry the X and Y chromosomes. gender of the baby is determined at the moment of conception, based on whether the egg is fertilized by a sperm carrying an X or Y chromosome.
it wouldn't matter one whit what the mother ate before or during pregnancy. we aren't alligators where the environment surrounding the offspring has an impact on sex.
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While the mechanism is not yet understood, it is known from in vitro fertilisation research that higher levels of glucose, or sugar, encourage the growth and development of male embryos while inhibiting female embryos.
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but the embryos were ALREADY SEXED before messing with their growth and development.
freaking morons.
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