Link Between the Immune System and Aggression

Takahashi, Akiyoshi; Russo, Scott J.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-98711-4_146-1

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“…Dietary factors (omega-3 fatty acids, for example) can act as signaling molecules throughout the immune system, limiting systemic low-grade inflammation [189,190]. More specifically, dietary factors can limit the production of proinflammatory cytokines (e.g., interleukin-6, interleukin-1 beta, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha) [191,192], immune chemicals that have been implicated in human aggression [193][194][195]. The observation that omega-3 fatty acids (vs. other dietary fats) have differential effects on gut microbiota helped to strengthen the early arguments that the intestinal ecosystem plays an underestimated role in the diet-mental health linkage observations [196,197].…”

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Nutritional Criminology: Why the Emerging Research on Ultra-Processed Food Matters to Health and Justice

Prescott,

Logan,

D’Adamo

et al. 2024

IJERPH

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There is mounting concern over the potential harms associated with ultra-processed foods, including poor mental health and antisocial behavior. Cutting-edge research provides an enhanced understanding of biophysiological mechanisms, including microbiome pathways, and invites a historical reexamination of earlier work that investigated the relationship between nutrition and criminal behavior. Here, in this perspective article, we explore how this emergent research casts new light and greater significance on previous key observations. Despite expanding interest in the field dubbed ‘nutritional psychiatry’, there has been relatively little attention paid to its relevancy within criminology and the criminal justice system. Since public health practitioners, allied mental health professionals, and policymakers play key roles throughout criminal justice systems, a holistic perspective on both historical and emergent research is critical. While there are many questions to be resolved, the available evidence suggests that nutrition might be an underappreciated factor in prevention and treatment along the criminal justice spectrum. The intersection of nutrition and biopsychosocial health requires transdisciplinary discussions of power structures, industry influence, and marketing issues associated with widespread food and social inequalities. Some of these discussions are already occurring under the banner of ‘food crime’. Given the vast societal implications, it is our contention that the subject of nutrition in the multidisciplinary field of criminology—referred to here as nutritional criminology—deserves increased scrutiny. Through combining historical findings and cutting-edge research, we aim to increase awareness of this topic among the broad readership of the journal, with the hopes of generating new hypotheses and collaborations.

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confidence: 99%

Nutritional Criminology: Why the Emerging Research on Ultra-Processed Food Matters to Health and Justice

Prescott,

Logan,

D’Adamo

et al. 2024

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Crime and Nourishment: A Narrative Review Examining Ultra-Processed Foods, Brain, and Behavior

Prescott,

Logan,

LaFata

et al. 2024

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Recently, there has been increased scientific and clinical interest in the potential harms associated with ultra-processed foods, including poor mental health, aggression, and antisocial behavior. Research spanning epidemiology, mechanistic pre-clinical work, addiction science, microbiome and exposome science, and human intervention trials has underscored that nutrition is of relevance along the criminal justice continuum. As such, the emerging dietetics research is salient to the thousands of international psychologists and allied mental health professionals that are engaged in justice work, including forensics, prevention, and intervention. In addition, relationships between nutrition and behavior relate to “food crime”, an emergent area unifying criminal justice researchers with psychology, public health, and other interdisciplinary sectors. Food crime scrutinizes the vast harms, including non-communicable diseases and adverse behavioral outcomes, as influenced by the distribution of addictive ultra-processed food products. Here, we examine the emergent research, including biophysiological mechanisms, and evidence indicating that dietary patterns/components intersect with psychosocial vulnerabilities linked with risks of antisocial behavior and justice involvement. Viewed through a prevention lens, the study of nutrition and aggressive behavior should be prioritized, especially if the outcomes emerge as externalities of the global consumption of ultra-processed food. In the context of criminal justice and behavior, there is a need for forensic examination of how industry influence and power structures can undermine matters of food justice.

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Link Between the Immune System and Aggression

Cited by 2 publications

References 121 publications

Nutritional Criminology: Why the Emerging Research on Ultra-Processed Food Matters to Health and Justice

Nutritional Criminology: Why the Emerging Research on Ultra-Processed Food Matters to Health and Justice

Crime and Nourishment: A Narrative Review Examining Ultra-Processed Foods, Brain, and Behavior

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