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<p style="background: #fefeff; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 18.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">Scientists at Stanford University released a study today showing that men who regularly eat grits are 70 percent more likely to have gay children.</p>
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<p style="background: #fefeff; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 18.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">The prospective cohort study, published in Nature Medicine, followed 15,000 volunteers for 30 years to determine the influence of parental diet on the development of childhood illnesses.</p>
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<p style="background: #fefeff; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 18.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">Although the study did find some connection between the maternal intake of sugar during pregnancy and childhood obesity, the most surprising finding was that fathers who ate grits had a much greater chance of having a gay child.</p>
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<p style="background: #fefeff; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 18.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">â??We were shocked when we ran the data,â?? says Edmund Bergler, the lead researcher on the project. "But we controlled for every variable. We triple-checked every calculation. And it turned out that eating grits makes your kids gay.â??</p>
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<p style="background: #fefeff; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 18.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">After investigating further, the scientists discovered that chemical processing of grits creates a substance called homotonin, which acts as a free radical inside a manâ??s testes and damages his spermâ??s DNA.</p>
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<p style="background: #fefeff; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 18.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">That DNA damage is passed onto the child and researchers believe it is responsible for the later development of homosexuality.</p>
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<p style="background: #fefeff; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 18.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">â??Gay people like to say that they are born that way, and they are right,â?? he explains. "The DNA damage that causes homosexuality happens much earlier, even before conception.</p>
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<p style="background: #fefeff; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 18.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">"Homosexuality is a choice. But it's the father's choice. What he eats  for breakfast determines the orientation of his child."</p>
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<p style="background: #fefeff; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 18.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">Another scientist on the study says if parents want to minimize their risk of having a gay child they need to avoid certain foods.</p>
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<p style="background: #fefeff; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 18.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">â??Grits have the highest homotonin levels. Its off the charts," he explains. "However foods like sweet tea, biscuits, chicken-fried steak, and cornbread also have very significant amounts.â??</p>
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<p style="background: #fefeff; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 18.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">A spokesperson for Quaker Oats, a leading maker of instant grits said they had no comment on the study.</p>
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<p style="background: #fefeff; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 18.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">A representative of Cracker Barrel, a Southern restaurant chain, says that orders for grits have dropped almost 40 percent since the study was released.</p>
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