Feeling Homicidal? Blame Your French Fries
4 Comments | Written on March 15, 2012 at 1:00 pm, by Lesley Kennedy
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No doubt you already know that trans fat is bad for your heart — but did you know that it might also make your blood boil?
As CBC News reports, researchers at the University of California–San Diego have found a link between eating foods that are high in trans fats and behaviors like aggression, impatience and irritability.
The study looked at 945 women and men, delving into their diets and behaviors. Researchers found that participants who consumed more trans fat were more likely to report higher levels of impatience and overt aggression.
And your level of education, alcohol consumption and smoking habits didn’t affect whether you got mean after a Twinkie binge, the CBC reports.
“This study provides the first evidence linking dietary trans fatty acids with behavioral irritability and aggression,” the study concludes.
Trans fat is found in a range of processed or deep-fried foods.
“If the association between trans fats and aggressive behavior proves to be causal, this adds further rationale to recommendations to avoid eating trans fats, or including them in foods provided at institutions like schools and prisons, since the detrimental effects of trans fats may extend beyond the person who consumes them to affect others,” the study’s lead author, Dr. Beatrice Golomb, tells the CBC.
So, the next time we snap at you for taking our last mozzarella stick or a handful of our potato chips, please don’t take it personality. It’s not you (or us) — it’s the food.
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4 Responses to “Feeling Homicidal? Blame Your French Fries”
I don’t have any hairpiece inside clothing collection, hence my main work now’s finding relevant hairpiece towards my clothes.
just think of this as the thing you need to know which is as much as i like fries do i want to be bitchy? you know how you feel when you are unkind even if you are right? your daughter witchy at times? don’t teach her to eat foods that make her sorry.i love them but only eat them occasionally
just becausae they are so addictive to me
I agree that food can affect your mood, but this article is taking all the blame from people and placing it on the food. ‘The Devil made me do it’ thinking just doesn’t cut the mustard any more.
I agree Carla. We already have more excuses than one can believe for bad behavior. I dont agree with “no spanking” rules. I dont believe in beating a child but our strongest most successful generations were taken out behind thebarn when they disresected their parents or teachers or did any of countless other inappropriate things. Now there is excuse after excuse for their indiscretions. They learn very early that they can intimidate their parents by mentioning that a spanking is child abuse and all they have to do is make a phone call. Now they can say “It wouln’t have happened if it weren’t for those darn french fries?” Lol