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Complex Emotions
February 1st, 2017, 12:36 AM
This article from the New York Times caught my eye: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/opinion/sunday/does-breast-milk-have-a-sex-bias.html?_r=0

Basically, the research falls along the same lines as Atomic's LE and HE diets. It suggests that breastfeeding mothers produce fattier, richer milk for sons than for daughters.

My eyes widened when I saw that the macaque monkey mothers produce milk with "higher concentrations of calcium for daughters than for sons." since that connects to the conventional "high calcium = girls" way of thinking.

atomic sagebrush
February 1st, 2017, 10:27 AM
Yes I've read about that before, here's a link to the study abstract. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022096516302685