You are what your mother eats

Multiple news sources reported a study that suggests high-calorie diet and regular breakfasts during pregnancy might increase the odds of a boy.

Scientists asked 740 women who had become pregnant for the first time about their eating habbits in the year before they conceived and found that 59% of women who ate breakfast cereal every day had boys.

Critics warned that women should be extremely cautious about using diet to influence the baby's gender and that changing diet could have other health implications for mothers and children.

Source: "You are what your mother eats: evidence for maternal preconception diet influencing foetal sex in humans" Proceedings of the Royal Society B: biological sciences. April 22, 2008