Pickles and ice cream! Food cravings in pregnancy: Hypotheses, preliminary evidence, and directions for future research

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Orloff, Natalia C ^a   Hormes, Julia M ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Chocolate; Craving; Eating disorders; Food; Perimenstrual; Pregnancy; Restraint

Indexed keywords

EID: 84913528386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01076     Document Type: Article

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