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FOR couples who are serious about sex selection, there are always the laboratory-based Sperm Olympics in Cleveland. Technicians put semen through various hurdles designed to separate the Y-bearing from X-bearing sperm. Laboratory methods take advantage of differences in weight, electrical charge and swimming speed to separate male from female sperm.

So far, they have apparently been correct fifty per cent of the time.

MORE than one in three couples who pay hundreds of pounds to chose the gender of their child at a controversial London fertility clinic end up with a baby of the opposite sex. The London Gender Clinic has estimated its success rates are more than fifty per cent but less than seventy per cent.

SUGAR and spice and all things nice, that’s what little girls are made of. Slugs and snails and puppy dogs’ tails, that’s what little boys are made of. Well, not quite, but according to a study originally done in France, and followed up in Canada and Belgium, an eighty per cent success rate has been notched up by parents eating certain foods in order to conceive the favoured sex. The menu suggested for conceiving boys is: bananas, cherries, grapes, oranges, peaches, melons, raspberries, sprouts, celery, tomatoes and sweet corn. For girls, parents should try tangerines, grapefruit, apples, pineapples, pears, cucumbers, radishes, lettuce, cabbages, carrots, turnips.

But, one word of caution – anyone suffering from kidney problems should avoid the calcium-rich girl diet, and people with high blood pressure should pass up the salt-rich boy diet.