Vegetarians more likely to give birth to girls: babies born to vegetarian moms also had good levels of most nutrients and less chance of stillbirths

Researchers at the University of Nottingham have found evidence to back up the old wives' tale that what a woman eats can determine the gender of her child. This is believed to be the fast study to show that when a woman cuts out meat from her diet and becomes a vegetarian, she is more likely to have a daughter.

Pauline Hudson and co-researcher Rosemary Buckley were actually surprised to find that vegetarianism had such an effect on gender. They had originally set up their research to look at the effects of a non-meat diet on...