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A Sweet Recipe for Baby Boys

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Some parents will try anything to influence the sex of their child. Eat meat if you want a boy, some say; fish and vegetables for a girl. Now, a new mouse study indicates that the belief that a mother's diet can influence a baby's sex is not so far-fetched. By altering a female mouse's blood-glucose levels around conception time, researchers skewed the sex ratio of the resulting offspring.

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