Midwives’ Backlash Against “Eating More Can Produce Boys” Survey

Posted on April 27th, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!last week, we covered the recent studies from UK universities that claim diet affects babies gender. In a nutshell, the studies report that high-calorie diets seemed to produce boys, and lower calorie diets produce girls.
Louise Silverton, Deputy General Secretary [...]

 

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