According to a recent study published in Proceeding of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, a mother’s diet can determine the gender of her child. Fiona Matthews and a team of scientists wanted to test if a certain foods would impact the woman’s offspring. Matthews and her colleagues asked 740 first-time mothers who did not know the gender of their baby, to provide detailed records of eating habits before and after the pregnancy. Depending on their calorie intake, the women were split in three categories.

"This research may help to explain why in developed countries, where many young women choose low calorie diets, the proportion of boys is falling," Mathews said.

The link between a rich diet and male children may have an evolutionary explanation. This could eventually lead to a process of “natural” gender selection, which to some, can be a major problem. Personally, it is not such a problem unless the woman is putting herself and the child in danger. Someone purposely giving birth to either a boy or a girl is never a good thing. But, “to each their own,” I say. I have learned that everyone has their own reasons for doing particular things, and I am certainly not the one to judge.