Want a girl? You need to quit the
salt and bananas (and go to bed together more often)
By Bill Mouland
5th September 2010
Mothers who want a baby girl should cut out bananas and go on a diet of beans and hard cheese, scientists claim.
They have discovered that a combination of the right food and the timing of sex are the key to the nursery being painted pink rather than blue.
The trick, the scientists say, is to refrain from eating sodium and potassium-rich foods, such as anchovies, olives, bacon, salami, smoked salmon, prawns, savoury rice, blue cheese, potatoes, processed meats, bread and pastries.
Instead they should concentrate on foods rich in calcium and magnesium.
Foods containing high amounts of calcium include yoghurt, hard cheese, canned salmon, rhubarb, spinach, tofu, almonds, oatmeal, broccoli and oranges.
Brazil and cashew nuts, whole wheat cereals, figs and beans are rich in magnesium.
The scientists, from Maastricht University in Holland, claim that the father’s diet has no effect on what sex the baby will be.
If prospective mothers want a daughter, the scientists also recommend having regular sex – but not on days immediately prior or after ovulation.
Their conclusions follow a five-year study involving 172 Western European women aged from 23 to 42. The women had all previously given birth to boys – in one case, four of them – and wanted girls.
They were told to cut out salt and eat at least a pound of dairy products a day. Their diet also included bread, vegetables, fruit, meat, rice and pasta.
Although many of the women dropped out of the survey because they failed to adhere to the strict dietary requirements or rules on when to have sex, 21 women stuck it out to the end.
Of the 21, 16 gave birth to daughters – an astonishing success rate of almost 80 per cent.
‘The results show that both diet and timing methods increase the probability of
a girl – the impact of the diet being the most pronounced,’ said a spokesman for the
scientists.
‘It shows a substantial success rate when both methods are applied correctly.’
Other studies claim that sperm carrying the female gene is stronger and likely to last longer than the lighter, faster but more short-lived male sperm – hence the need to avoid sex around the time of ovulation when the male sperm will be more dominant.
This is the first time that humans have allowed themselves to be guinea pigs for such experiments.
Previous tests have been carried out on marine worms, dairy cattle, pigs and rats, although some studies of women who have only ever given birth to boys indicated that their diet had contained mainly potassium and sodium-rich foods.
Such is the desire of some families to predetermine the sex of their offspring some resort to IVF treatment to ensure girls, but as the Dutch scientists acknowledge, ‘many parents find that these techniques are just one step too far in meddling with nature’.
Others rely on old wives’ tales, which say that a woman wanting to conceive a girl should make her partner take hot baths or drink cups of strong coffee prior to intercourse.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... z0znv9h2mU
WANT A GIRL? YOU NEED TO QUIT THE SALT AND BANANAS !!!!
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Re: WANT A GIRL? YOU NEED TO QUIT THE SALT AND BANANAS !!!!
lol this is crazy,
i remember this somali lady who had 5 boys said to me, my husband knows how to have sons.lol. i said what do you mean, she said, raga qaar baa alle ugu deeqey xirfad ama yacni habka looga shaqeeyo xaaskooda to achieve sons.

i remember this somali lady who had 5 boys said to me, my husband knows how to have sons.lol. i said what do you mean, she said, raga qaar baa alle ugu deeqey xirfad ama yacni habka looga shaqeeyo xaaskooda to achieve sons.


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Re: WANT A GIRL? YOU NEED TO QUIT THE SALT AND BANANAS !!!!
zulaika wrote:lol this is crazy,
i remember this somali lady who had 5 boys said to me, my husband knows how to have sons.lol. i said what do you mean, she said, raga qaar baa alle ugu deeqey xirfad ama yacni habka looga shaqeeyo xaaskooda to achieve sons.
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As i READ last part of ur COMMENT , i begun to ask what is the 'XIRFAD...........sons'.... i was sitting there thinking long time scratching my HEAD and beating my CHEST till my GRANMOTHER came and i ASKED her if could EXPLAIN That 'XIRFAD"...HER REPLY was 'Daanyeer , WASH ur FEET, DRINK some MILK...and go to ur BED !!!!!!
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