Bancroft J, Cook A, Williamson L
MRC Reproductive Biology Unit, Edinburgh.
Psychol Med. 1988 Nov;18(4):855-60. doi: 10.1017/s003329170000979x.
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.
76名平均年龄为35.7岁的女性在一份回顾性调查问卷中报告有经前对甜食的渴望，她们在两个月经周期内通过经前和经后饮食问卷以及对渴望、情绪、易怒和乳房胀痛的每日评分进行前瞻性评估。在这些女性中，72%证实有经前食物渴望模式。13%的人这种渴望仅限于月经期。在时间或严重程度上，食物渴望与情绪变化之间没有一致的关联。情绪变化更严重的女性并没有报告更强烈的渴望。食物渴望与周期性乳房胀痛之间也没有关联。因此，经前食物渴望本身似乎是一种周期性现象，病因不明，值得进一步研究。
