Originally published August 6 2005
Female population outgrowing male population
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
A recent study has shown that while it may be hard for women to find a spouse today, it will be even harder in the future due to a population shift that sees more girls being born each year than boys.
Throughout the industrialized world, the percentage of male babies being born is declining.
The net loss is roughly 850,000 boys, or 15 percent of marriageable males, T.J. Mathews of the National Center for Health Statistics told National Public Radio recently.
A look at births over the past 30 years in Colorado shows a similar decline.
According to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, in 1975 Colorado women gave birth to 40,148 babies; 51.6 percent of them were boys.
Scientists at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center said they aren't current enough on the issue to weigh in, but others have.
Many researchers attribute the decline in male babies to modern chemicals and pesticides, which they believe may disrupt or alter human hormones.
We propose that sex ratio declines be viewed as a sentinel health indicator" - i.e, an early warning, like the canary in the coal mine, of possibly more dire consequences.
This is nature's way of compensating for the fact that males die at much greater rates than females in all stages of life - from disease, wars and other causes.
But when Dr. Karen Norberg of the University of Washington looked at 80,000 births over the last 40 years, she found that boys are less likely to be born to women who aren't living with men at the time of conception.
Norberg supports her theory by comparing birth ratios to the rise in single motherhood: Five percent of babies were born to single women in the 1940s; today, more than 20 percent of babies are born to single women.
(Researchers have ruled out legalized abortion as an influence on the numbers.)
Scientists also know this: It takes a woman 10 percent more caloric energy to gestate a male fetus than to gestate a female fetus.
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