Re: Does Omega 6 increase violent tendencies and homicide?

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.


Too late buddy, David Horrobin wrote a seminal article on this year 2000.
Andrew Stoll picks it up also. Fascinating aspect of neuroimmune regulation
and its impact on cognition and cerebral health. When I first read Horrobin
I thought it was *** and long ago have come to rue that arrogant judgment
on my part.


--
http://healthycuriousity.blogspot.com/
"kaptan" <nospam.thanks> wrote in message
news:491f07c4$0$7533$5a62ac22@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
l
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.





.

Loading