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

[Pangea]

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

[atomic sagebrush]

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?

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

[bythestream]

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?

[atomic sagebrush]

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?

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.