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It must be the shape...

DLR77
DLR77
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/04/23/gender.diet/index.html
deleted_user
deleted_user
That's so funny.....how ironic that it would be bananas.
deleted_user
deleted_user
As a biologist there are a couple of things about this article that aren't adding up. FIrst of all there are always more boys than girls born (about 52% of babies are boys, 48% of girls) by the time we hit 18 the population is 50-50 and from then on there are more women than men (and you thought it was just your imagination that it was hard to find a good man ;-) ) It's thought that Y sperm that makes boys can swim faster since they have less DNA and are lighter, but then boys go on to be reckless and dangerous and have more accidents.

Back to the article... their statement that a high calorie diet increases the number of boys from 10 to 11 out of 20 makes no sense. They say it increases it from 50% to 55%, but it never was 50%!

Also they say that birth of boys is on slight decline in richer countries. Wouldn't be the reverse? Shouldn't we be seeing a population explosion of boys in the US? Goodness knows we consume enough calories. Or are they saying that b/c women in richer countries are always on diets, we are having more girls.

Okay, thanks for reading this. I always have to expound on biology topics. Must be the teacher in me. ;-)
DLR77
DLR77
I figured it was silly. What's even sillier is that it was on a 'serious' news site...er...sort of.