"Overweight and Obese Men More Likely To Father Sons" - has this been discussed?
So I've been doing a ton of reading, on this site (love the Maternal Dom/Privileged Daughter essay!) and elsewhere, and I'm super fascinated by the stuff being studied (and things I wonder might contribute, that have yet to be studied). This study made me worry a bit, though:
Overweight and obese men more likely to father sons according to Peking University Hospital study | Metro News
First off, I recognize this study was done on couples seeking infertility treatment, and while there's no evidence of this, it may have been skewed from the fact that it was done in China where the boy preference plus only child rule has become a real problem (what with sex selective abortions). Still I'm curious if there might be any truth, or counter-studies.
Anyway, if this has already been discussed on another thread, I'll be happy to redirect there. Thoughts? Personal experiences? From what I'm reading on genderdreaming, the thought goes that overweight man might sway girl due to lower fertility and/or excess estrogen. Full disclosure is that hubs is overweight while I am normal BMI (20), and we both eat close to the same calorie count (he's about 2500 daily, while I'm closer to 2200 daily), with a super nutritious diet. I'm like to sway lightly girl for our first, but am thinking with high fasting blood sugar and rising BP this past year for me personally, I'd do the PCOS LE diet plus AM fasting, with a vegetarian skew concentrating on the macro ratios (lowering protein and fat without worrying about vitamin/mineral content). I wasn't planning on doing anything for DH except cooking him dinner (ha!). He's been slow enough to act on decreasing his own calorie count and increasing his expenditure for years that I feel it's not worth pressing the issue, and honestly I feel bad making comments because my only concern with his overweight is his health - he's still the cutest, sweetest man that I want to be the father of my children & my life partner.