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At least one study indicates that vegetarian women are more likely to have female babies.

A study of 6, 000 pregnant women in 1998 " found that while the national average in Britain is 106 boys born to every 100 girls, for vegetarian mothers the ratio was just 85 boys to 100 girls ".

Catherine Collins of the British Dietetic Association has dismissed this as a " statistical fluke ".