LE diet - breakfast cereal??

[HERBS]

Hi

I just wanted a bit of advice, I've read a few articles linking breakfast cereal to conceiving boys...is there anything in this??
I don't mean eating breakfast, I sometimes have cereal as a low fat snack during the day but have completely stopped this now I'm swaying pink. I just wanted opinions on whether this is necessary & if so what do you think it is in breakfast cereal which sways boy? I was thinking possibly the level of nutrients?

Thanks

[ThinkingofPink]

Yes it's the nutrients. Breakfast cereals are typically heavily fortified with vitamins that you want to avoid if possible. This is just from what I've been reading on this forum. I'm no expert!

[GirlieCat]

Herbs, I love sticking with Atomic's direction that nothing is completely off limits so I have had cereal but only once every couple weeks. I eat Golden grams or Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I can't image those are very healthy but even if they do have lots of vitamins, I have it so rarely that it can be considered my cheat item.

[Erin514]

I think it may depend on the cereal. Most cereals are heavily fortified, plus oats may sway blue a bit. But if you are eating something like "unfortified rice puffs, now with extra refined sugar" I don't see how that could sway blue...

[foxtrotmama]

I've been avoiding anything that's vitamin fortified. I had cereal daily when my boys were conceived.

[GirlieCat]

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Bummer, both of my favorites have quite a lot of nutrients. Must be done so parents don't feel as bad giving it to kids.

[atomic sagebrush]

I wouldn't take the chance. I doubt that on occasion it's too terrible but I'd try to find something that isn't as heavily fortified.

To answer your question, yes, in the best study ever done on diet and gender conceived (the only one ever done that was not trying to prove a theory true and where they just looked at a woman's preconception diet and then the gender of the baby she had - and they weren't even studying it to begin with, so it really is a well done study) they noticed a correlation in breakfast cereal and having boys. Now, I think it may be that breakfast = boys or a healthy diet = boys but still, if you can avoid it, why not.

Always ate tons of cereal with my boys and dropped it and got a girl.

[atomic sagebrush]

I think it may depend on the cereal. Most cereals are heavily fortified, plus oats may sway blue a bit. But if you are eating something like "unfortified rice puffs, now with extra refined sugar" I don't see how that could sway blue...

The dilemma is that we don't totally KNOW that it is the nutrients. I personally THINK it's the combo of added nutrients + eating breakfast, but I don't KNOW that and if it is something else then even the unfortified ones may be blue friendly. I wish we had more data to go off of.