The native inhabitants of the world's arctic regions live near the top of the food chain, relying largely on fish and aquatic mammals for sustenance. Amongst other things this means that their diet is rich in toxins and other man made chemicals. A new study of the blood of pregnant Inuit women makes a connection between these high levels of chemicals in the diet and the fact that the birthrate of girls is now twice as high as the birthrate for boys. In some areas families are having nothing but female offspring. It is believed that accumulations of "DDT, PCBs, flame-retardants and other endocrine disrupters (sic)" in the bloodstreams of pregnant women make actually be changing the sex of the child in the womb.
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