Abstract:
:Seventy-six women, with a mean age of 35.7 years, who reported premenstrual craving for sweet foods in a retrospective questionnaire, were assessed prospectively with a pre- and post-menstrual eating questionnaire and daily ratings of craving, mood, irritability and breast tenderness over two menstrual cycles. In 72% of these women a perimenstrual pattern of food craving was confirmed. In 13% this craving was confined to the menstrual phase. There was no consistent association between food craving and mood change, either in timing or severity. Women with more severe mood change did not report more severe craving. There was also no association between food craving and cyclical breast tenderness. Perimenstrual food craving, therefore, appears to be a cyclical phenomenon in its own right, of uncertain aetiology and worthy of further study.
journal_name
Psychol Medjournal_title
Psychological medicineauthors
Bancroft J,Cook A,Williamson Ldoi
10.1017/s003329170000979xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1988-11-01 00:00:00pages
855-60issue
4eissn
0033-2917issn
1469-8978journal_volume
18pub_type
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