Cracked.com article - has diet and gender swaying on it!

That's really interesting. Number 2 could be the reason why there are more girls and less babies in general conceived during April.

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Originally Posted by bythe******

That's funny licorice was one of the only foods I craved in pregnancy. I didn't go overboard but I ate a bit. My boys are both very bright though (I know every parent says that). But my 4yo could tell you about hydrolyics in diggers before he was 3 and my 22month old knows all his colours and shapes and both have a very large vocabulary for their ages (they basically taught themselves these things we don't do those baby brain training things). Maybe they would be smarter if I hadn't eaten any?

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100 g of licorice EVERY DAY is a heck of a lot of licorice!!!! I seriously doubt you ate anywhere near that much.

No probably not, although on some days maybe. So these women in the study ate 100g everyday all pregnancy? Are they sure it wasn't all the sugar that effected the kids?

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Originally Posted by bythe******

No probably not, although on some days maybe. So these women in the study ate 100g everyday all pregnancy? Are they sure it wasn't all the sugar that effected the kids?

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I think it was prob. the licorice because licorice is pretty strong stuff (it's actually used as medication in some countries) and a LOT of people eat sugar during pg.

That was my understanding, that they ate that much licorice every day during their entire pg.