• COVID-19
  • Allergies and Infant Formula
  • Pharmacology
  • Telemedicine
  • Drug Pipeline News
  • Influenza
  • Allergy, Immunology, and ENT
  • Autism
  • Cardiology
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Endocrinology
  • Adolescent Medicine
  • Gastroenterology
  • Infectious disease
  • Nutrition
  • Neurology
  • Obstetrics-Gynecology & Women's Health
  • Developmental/Behavioral Disorders
  • Practice Improvement
  • Gynecology
  • Respiratory
  • Dermatology
  • Diabetes
  • Mental Health
  • Oncology
  • Psychiatry
  • Animal Allergies
  • Alcohol Abuse
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis
  • Sexual Health
  • Pain

Mom's diet could influence baby's gender

Article

A mother's diet around the time of conception may play a role in determining the gender of her baby, findings published April 22 in the online Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences suggest.

A mother's diet around the time of conception may play a role in determining the gender of her babies, findings published April 22 in the online Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences suggest.

Investigators studied the diets of 740 first-time mothers living in the United Kingdom who did not know their unborn child's gender. Results showed that 56% of the women with the highest-energy diets had sons, compared with 45% of women with the lowest-energy diets. There was also a strong association between eating breakfast cereals and having sons.

In addition, separate findings presented at the International Symposium on Early Nutrition Programming in Granada, Spain, showed that 95% of 2,000 European mothers believed that their babies' diet was important for health during the first year of life.

Although less of them were sure (85% to 90%) that the way they fed their babies had an impact on their long-term health, the percentages are considered high since this notion has not yet been reflected in official advice for parents, the researchers stated.

Related Videos
Breaking down toddler formulas and the confusion associated with naming, labeling | Image Credit: © University of Kentucky - © University of Kentucky - stock.adobe.com.
Tina Tan, MD, FAAP, FIDSA, FPIDS, editor in chief, Contemporary Pediatrics, professor of pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, pediatric infectious diseases attending, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Related Content
© 2024 MJH Life Sciences

All rights reserved.