Reason | Peri/postmenopausal women (n = 188) | Premenopausal women (n = 211) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Number stating reason | % stating reason | Number stating reason | % stating reason | |
Children / Childcare / Pregnancy | 93 | 49.5a | 131 | 62.1b |
Inactivity | 84 | 44.7 | 82 | 38.9 |
Menopause / HRT | 73 | 38.8 | – | – |
Comfort or boredom eating | 64 | 34.0 | 89 | 42.2 |
Portion Size | 60 | 31.9 | 70 | 33.2 |
Stress | 44 | 23.4 | 66 | 31.3 |
Marriage / settling down | 42 | 22.3 | 54 | 25.6 |
Work / Study | 30 | 16.0 | 51 | 24.2 |
Bereavement | 28 | 14.9 | 45 | 21.3 |
Depression | 28 | 14.9 | 36 | 17.1 |
Alcohol | 28 | 14.9 | 20 | 9.5 |
Takeaways / Ready meals | 25 | 13.3 | 36 | 17.1 |
Lack of time to prepare food | 21 | 11.2 | 34 | 16.1 |
Health problems / Medications | 20 | 10.6 | 18 | 8.5 |
Giving up smoking | 18 | 9.6 | 23 | 10.9 |
Food Preferences (own/family) | 17 | 9.0 | 26 | 12.3 |
Cooking skills | 4 | 2.1 | 7 | 3.3 |
Eating out | 4 | 2.1 | 2 | 0.9 |
Cost of healthy food | 3 | 1.6 | 7 | 3.3 |
Lack of sleep / tiredness | 3 | 1.6 | 3 | 1.4 |
Carer | 3 | 1.6 | 1 | 0.5 |
Social life / holidays | 3 | 1.6 | 1 | 0.5 |
Contraceptives | 2 | 1.1 | 15 | 7.1 |
Sweet tooth | 2 | 1.1 | 1 | 0.5 |
Fertility treatment | 1 | 0.5 | 3 | 1.4 |
Appetite / Hunger | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.0 |
Divorce | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.9 |
Hysterectomy / oophorectomy | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.5 |
Premenstrual hunger | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.5 |
Progesterone replacement | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.5 |