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Commentary: That craving for chocolate? You can blame it on PMS

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What foods are women reaching for? Carbs and fats and sweets. No surprise there, says Sara Twogood from the University of Southern California.

LOS ANGELES, California: Premenstrual food cravings are the punchline of endless jokes. Like most good jokes, they’re funny because they’re true.

Eighty-five percent of women have some sort of perceptible premenstrual symptoms, while only somewhere in the range of 20 per cent to 40 per cent of all women meet the diagnostic criteria for PMS. And although the existence of any craving is similar across women with and without PMS, the craving itself may differ depending on if you have the diagnosis of PMS.

Researchers find that “thinking” of a really tasty food is the most common provocation for wanting to consume it and that cravings are not solely hunger driven.

 

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