Some recent research has revolutionized the landscape by ensuring that the mother's diet before pregnancy may be related to the sex of the future baby, suggesting that we could opt for certain foods depending on whether we are looking for a girl or a boy.
It is pointed out that the consumption of high-calorie foods increases the chances of having a boy and the opposite in the case of girls. A particular study, published in Proceedings B, stated that mothers who consumed at least one bowl of breakfast cereals were more likely to have a male than those who drank one or less per week, although this fact may have more to do with the fact of breakfast than with the cereals themselves.
Now, a new investigation totally disputes this version stating that eating cereals does not influence the sex of the baby. He points out that the conclusions are due to chance and not to a scientific demonstration.
At the time, the calorie version was quite criticized. Fertility specialists questioned its validity explaining that "the metabolism of the ovum and sperm is so low that they have all the nutrients, regardless of what the mother takes."
I think that determining why a child was born a boy and not a girl is something impossible to verify, at least for now. How do we know if it has influenced the mother's diet, that of the father, the posture when having relations, the moment in which it has been conceived or is a combination of all?
The truth is that it has not yet been proven that we can select the sex of the baby through what we eat. It is something that we cannot control (except with genetic selection) and in part it is appreciated that there is something that we cannot control. It is more important to eat healthy to have a healthy child than to put your health at risk by following an unbalanced diet.
