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Instead, the diet of such women should be full of beans and hard cheese, aver researchers.

Scientists at Maastricht University in Holland have established that right food along with the correct timing of making love is the key to a soon-to-be mother's conceiving a girl child.

The researchers based their conclusions on a 5-year study of 172 Western European women aged between 23 and 42.

All these participants were mothers, had given birth to boys, but wanted girls.

Excessive intake of salt has been linked to increased blood pressure which is responsible for 65 percent of strokes and 49 percent of heart attacks globally.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends restricting daily salt intake to 5 grams for one person per day at the population level.

Computer model used to measure the impact of two different scenarios
The study was conducted by researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine, as well as the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System in California, U.S.