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Sugar, Alcohol, and PMS

What sorts of things contribute to PMS? Chocolate, fruit juice, and beer, according to this study. Oregon State University researchers concluded this after surveying 853 women university students. Seventy-three percent of the women reported at least one PMS symptom. Most called their symptoms "mild"; only 2% called them "severe." Ninety percent of the women ate "junk food" at least once a day, but the researchers found no significant association between junk food in general and PMS. They did find associations be n PMS and chocolate, PMS and fruit juice, and PMS and beer, however, which the authors take as evidence that sugar and alcohol in general may encourage PMS. - A. M. Rossignol and H. Bonnlander, "Prevalence and severity of the premenstrual syndrome," joumnl of Reprodudive MedU:in£ 36 (1991): 1 1-36.

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