Hi Great News People,

45 years ago I read a medical article that said, “drinking too much coffee regularly could kill off male sperm at time of conception.” We had one boy and planned to start working on another child. Wanting a girl, I stepped up my already habitual coffee drinking in hopes of producing a female!

Ten years later I was boasting about my four wonderful boys and trying to conquer a coffee drinking habit!

So much for ways to determine sex of off-spring!

Love your program.
Faithful Fox Fan, Carol Piper
Murfreesboro, NC

What happened to the X and Y chromosones from the male sperm? I was always taught that the dad decided the sex of the baby not the mom and it is decided at conception not from the food consummed by mom. Should scientific prove be disregarded now that someone did a study of foods eaten by mom’s? Sure hope this wasn’t paid for by my tax dollars.

This is ridiculous. The sex of your baby does not have anything to do with diet!!! That is determined by God even before conception!

If this were true, Victoria (Posh) Beckham would have all girls. It’s a BS study. The dad is the one that determines the sex of the child, since the chromosome that makes a baby either male or female comes from the sperm.

You have got to be kidding me. The X and Y chromosomes determine the sex of a baby. Eating a sugary breakfast was merely a coincidence.

This seems like a really silly idea…how in the world would food intake have ANYthing to do with determining what happens inside a fertilized egg?? It was amusing to say the least…

its the man that decides what the sex is. X and Y chromosomes! this article basically implies the researched wasted valuable money and completely ignored her general education that it is the man that decides, the woman has nothing to do with it

I am reading Dr. Shettles “How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby” and while I am not all the way through it after reading what I have the one who would need the caffeine boost for male offspring is the man not women. It would be interesting to see what the partners of these pregnant women ate. Man is the determiner of the sex. While God is the main factor He gave us the gift of science and knowledge so that we could use it accordingly.

I can’t believe the government actually funded the grant money for this silly study!! What University study did this come from? I can’t believe my tax dollars went to fund a study like that.

A few years from now, another study will show that the opposite is true, or has no effect at all.

How Stupid and what a waste of time/energy. I only looked at it to see if somewhere the reporter acknowledged the facts….and they didn’t.

This sounds like and old wives tale to me, not only to I eat cereal every morning, I am 8 months pregnant with a little girl. Besides that, the sperm is actually male/female, eating certain foods after conception won’t have any effect on whether a child is male or female. Perhaps they mean that nutrition might have an effect on gender pre-conception, but the article wasn’t very clear. It really comes down to a race between the sperm, and whichever gets there first (male or female).

What a load of crock! Where’d these scientists get their degrees…..Acme University?

This story leaves more questions than answers. If anyone knows anything about simple genetics, they know that a woman’s egg only contains the X chromosome that would create a female baby. It is a man’s sperm which provides the X or the Y chromosome that would create either a male or female baby depending upon which chromosome the baby receives, the X or the Y. If the baby receives the X chromosome from the father, the baby would then have XX chromosomes and would be a girl. If the baby receives the Y chromosome from the father, the baby would then have XY chromosome and would be a boy. And, the sex of the baby is determined at conception, not later during pregnancy.

This study was about mother’s diets but leaves many questions. Such as “does the higher calorie diet attract Y sperm more than X sperm?”; “Were there medical researchers and doctors involved in this study?”; “Is this an observational study or is there any scientific controls involved?”; and . . . .

What a crock! I wonder what determined the sex of the child before General Mills, Kellogg’s, and Post invented breakfast cereals.

It is the X and Y chromosome of a male sperm that determines the sex of a baby. Nothing that a woman eats or drinks is going to affect the sex. It depends on whether an X or Y hits the egg first. It is ridiculous that Fox would be put this.

This was a observational study. At best, it could suggest a correlation between cereal and gender of the baby, but not causality. I am extremely tired of the misuse of “science” in the media.

This is the biggest waste of time I have ever heard of! Why don’t they spend their time and money researching something that really actually matters. If this study had any truth to it at all then women would have been extinct long ago….I don’t think they ate cereal back when the world was created. Science can really be a waste of time if not properly used!!!

THis is absurd! THe dad determines the sex of the baby, not the mom. Mom can eat all the cereal she wants, but if dad gave her an “X”, then its girl no matter what. Maybe someone should look at the father’s diet, rather than the mother’s. And then someone should see who wasted the funding $ on this study and revoke their tenure.

This is such a crock of oatmeal! What do you suppose it was that determined the sex of the child before Kelloggs/Post/General Mills invented breakfast cereal and women sprinkled sugar on the cereal? Someone somewhere convinced a committee that they could do a study on this and received some “free” living money – that’s all this amounts to. And of course the free publicity that goes with it.

Oh, wow! This was one of the dumbest things I have ever read! And to Chris, I think you need another science class. The sex of an unborn child is determined by the man at conception. Not by some ‘Supreme Being’ before hand.

What you eat; does not determine sex of baby. How would that explain my boy/girl twins?

I’m embarrassed that this was ever published. This sounds like something from medieval times when kings would sometimes kill their wives for not giving them a son. When today, and for several decades now, we’ve KNOWN that this is determined solely by the male.
Did your editors go on vacation?

Is this a joke? Because if it is not meant to be a joke, it is a joke. Why not spend your time studing more important issues. What a joke!!!!

I don’t believe in the study! I’ve never eaten a bowl of cereal everyday and for the most part not even one bowl every couple of weeks and I have 4 boys and 1 girl. The girl is the #2 child and neither my diet, nor my calorie intake were any different from having the 1 girl than having the 4 boys.

Like another comment, I think this is an old wives tell, at best!

As we say in the south “bless her heart.” What I really mean is couldn’t they find something better to do with the time and money? And how stupid do we look?

Anyone that eats that much sugar will have an overweight body and a hyperactive child, why encourage poor nutrition? Not only that but they will set themselves up for disappointment if it is a girl. What you gonna do send her back?

You have got to be kidding me. This study is a joke and the results are merely coincidential. I can’t believe someone spent their good hard earned education on such a ridiculous study. Seriously. Spend time on a worthwhile study…like cancer prevention. And now I’m made at myself for spending a minute responding to this ridulous “finding”.

Yes, the male sperm determines the sex of the baby, but the environment within the female (acidic or alkaline at the time of conception) can also play a role, with certain foods swaying one way or the other. Do a search for the “Shettles Method”, or go to http://www.genselect.com for more information. It’s actually quite interesting .. learning about the science behind conception, that it.

how much money was wasted on this research????????????????????????
BIG BIG BIG GOVERNMENT AT IT’S BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
our tax dollars at work.
sex is figured out at time of conception, not from the cereal you eat. XY chromos, hellooooooooooo.

I agree that this study was a waste of time and money, since I eat cereal almost every day and have 2 girls and 1 boy.

And thank you Dallas for saying what I was plannng on saying. Yes, it is the male sperm that determines the sex, but women do have more of a role in the whole gender issue then people think. I’m assuming that is how someone got someone else to give them a bunch of our tax dollars to conduct this stupid study.

Why is Fox News even reporting this tripe? The child’s gender is determined by the X or Y chromosome in the sperm. That’s established scientific fact. This is a stupid study that probably got a lot of government funding to conduct just to justify someone’s continued employment. I suppose next you’ll tell me that there’s a study out there that suggests humanity is the cause of global warming. What a crock!

Even though X and Y are established science, some studies show that Ph balance within a woman may favor X or Y. Actually it is the egg that can have either Ph, which attracts the opposite sperm (I have no idea which one is acidic/alkaline), but whatever the egg is, the opposite sprerm will hit.

I eat cereal every morning( and sometimes as a nightime snack) and I have 2 sons,ages 4 and 13 yet I find this study to be totally ridiculous. It’s almost as bad as the advice given if you want to have a girl then have intercourse every day right before conception. I think I’ll ask my best friend who has 3 daughters what she ate for breakfast. And I’ll ask my sister in law too since she has fraternal twin boys and another son!

What ever happened to the sex being determined by the X and Y chromosomes, donated by the dad at the point of conception?