The recent Oxford University study showing that eating breakfast made women more likely to conceive male children than females centered specifically around potassium consumption, meaning bananas, whose phallic nature – in some cultures, at least – is believed to have an influence on what goes on in the womb.
“We were able to confirm the old wives’ tale that eating bananas, and so having a high potassium intake, was associated with having a boy,” said Fiona Matthews, who led the study of 740 first-time mothers published in the strangely-named journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.”
So, there you have it. Do with it what you will. Read more here.
Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman 
