IF YOU would like a baby boy, try eating a bowl of cereal daily as part of your pre-pregnancy diet.
So says Fiona Mathews of the University of Exeter in the UK. “Eat a healthy diet with a high-calorie intake, including breakfast,” she suggests.
Mathews and her colleagues identified the link after recording the dietary habits of 740 women before and during pregnancy. Of the third of women on the highest energy diets prior to conception, 56 per cent had boys, compared with 45 per cent in the third consuming least energy. Breakfast cereals had an even greater effect, with…
