More Trans Fat Consumption Linked to Greater Aggression, Researchers Find

[Tank]

More Trans Fat Consumption Linked to Greater Aggression, Researchers Find

ScienceDaily (Mar. 13, 2012) — Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown -- by each of a range of measures, in men and women of all ages, in Caucasians and minorities -- that consumption of dietary trans fatty acids (dTFAs) is associated with irritability and aggression.

The study of nearly 1,000 men and women provides the first evidence linking dTFAs with adverse behaviors that impacted others, ranging from impatience to overt aggression. The research, led by Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD, associate professor in the UC San Diego Department of Medicine, has been published online by PLoS ONE.

Dietary trans fatty acids are primarily products of hydrogenation, which makes unsaturated oils solid at room temperature. They are present at high levels in margarines, shortenings and prepared foods. Adverse health effects of dTFAs have been identified in lipid levels, metabolic function, insulin resistance, oxidation, inflammation, and cardiac health...

All the information on trans fats points to the need to get them out of our diet.

[Augustus]

You know the stereotype that all Americans are fat and like starting wars? Maybe we've just found the link between the two.

[Tank]

You know the stereotype that all Americans are fat and like starting wars? Maybe we've just found the link between the two.

Ah! I didn't think any of the presidents that started wars were fat? 

[pytheas]

All the information on trans fats points to the need to get them out of our diet.

very interesting- and a welcomed scientific revelation if such.
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Body weight fat people have mixed behavioural affections from fatness, not specific to the trans lipid consumption
-they are said to be of cheery of happy  and relaxed temperament because of negative feeback with orexin NPY and other neuropeptides that regulate apetite. When we get hungry we tend to get a little more stressed, nervous.

-they can get sad because of somatic loneliness and self-rejection

-they can get mean if fatness is experienced as handicap unfair unjust and discriminatory

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The trans-fat story  makes me think of "unsuitable" substrates, suboptimal brain lipid messenger turnovers. I can see it mapping out in a way.

Very nice Tank