Does Omega 6 increase violent tendencies and homicide?

I was researching fatty acids to include or exclude in a diet for melanoma
and came across this very interesting site:
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2008/09/vegetable-oil-and-homicide.htm
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The original research paper is from 2004 so it's old news.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15736917

Can anyone suggest how to eliminate linoleic acid from the body fat reserves
and a regime to exclude it from the diet?

(NOTE: There are 3 references to 3 graphs that will not appear on this post.
The cited graphs demonstrate a direct proportionality between linoleic acid
consumption and homicide rates in 5 countries, the USA and UK.)
Vegetable Oil and Homicide
One of the major dietary changes that has accompanied the downward slide of
American health is the replacement of animal fats with industrially
processed vegetable oils. Soybean oil, corn oil, cottonseed oil and other
industrial creations have replaced milk and meat fat in our diet, while
total fat consumption has remained relatively constant. The result is that
we're eating a lot more polyunsaturated fat than we were just 30 years ago,
most of it linoleic acid (omega-6). Corn oil may taste so bad it inspires
you to violence, but its insidiousness goes beyond the flavor. Take a look:


This figure is from a paper that Dr. Joe Hibbeln sent me recently, of which
he is the first author. This followed an interesting e-mail conversation
with Robert Brown, author of Omega Six: the Devil's Fat. He put me in touch
with Dr. Hibbeln and Dr. William Lands (NIH, NIAAA), both of whom warn of
the dangers of excessive linoleic acid consumption from modern vegetable
oils. Dr. Lands has been researching the relationship between dietary fat
and inflammation since the 1970s, and has been a critic of modern vegetable
oils for just as long. Both Dr. Hibbeln and Dr. Lands were very generous in
sending me a number of their papers. The figure above shows the homicide
rate vs. linoleic acid consumption of five countries over the course of 40
years. Each point represents one year in one country. The U.S. has the
distinction of being in the upper right.

I asked Dr. Hibbeln how he selected the five countries, and he told me the
selection criteria were 1) available homicide and linoleic acid consumption
statistics, 2) "first world" countries, and 3) countries representing a
diversity of linoleic acid intakes. I'm satisfied that there was probably
not a significant selection bias.

What's interesting about the graph is that not only does the homicide rate
track with linoleic acid consumption across countries, but it also tracks
within countries over time. For example, here is the same graph of the US
alone:


And here is the UK, which doesn't suffer as much from the confounding factor
of firearm availability:


Epidemiological associations don't get much better than that. In the next
few posts, I'll explore the data from intervention trials that support the
hypothesis that excessive omega-6 consumption, and insufficient omega-3
consumption, cause serious problems for psychiatric and physical health.



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Relevant Pages

  • Re: Evening Primrose Oil Effective for Neuropathy
    ... Western diets have more than neccessary omega-6. ... Gamma linolenic acid, GLA found in evening ... primrose oil GLA is an omega-6 and it helps yet Western diets already ... Given the right environment linoleic acid could be converted to GLA. ...
    (alt.support.diabetes)
  • Re: Does Omega 6 increase violent tendencies and homicide?
    ... Green leafy vegetables and vegetable legumes are similarly ... seed oil meals and grain germs. ... Can anyone suggest how to eliminate linoleic acid from the body fat reserves ...
    (sci.med.nutrition)
  • Re: Nuts WITH other foods better?
    ... Healthy can be a very misleading term. ... linolenic to linoleic acid ie omega-3 to omega-6. ... It is however being advocated as a cooking oil. ... Oils high in polyunsaturated fats are notorious for decomposing ...
    (alt.support.diabetes)
  • Arachidonic acid and its friends
    ... The issue seems to be limiting the inflammatory effects of AA. ... limiting the amount of AA and its precursor linoleic acid ... acid (ALA, flax oil, canola). ... by promoting the formation of less- and anti-inflammatory eicosanoids. ...
    (sci.med.nutrition)