How eating a burger and chips can make your baby a boy (and chocolate will produce a girl) - Daily Mail 29th November 2007

Folklore holds that what mothers eat is the key to the sex of their child. Red meat and salty snacks are said to lead to boys while chocolate is thought to help to produce girls. Now science suggests the stories may be true: mice with low blood-sugar levels - a good indicator of a sugar-rich diet - produce more female than male offspring. Researchers gave 20 female mice a steroid, dexamethasone, which kept their blood-sugar levels low.

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