Food: How Food Insecurity impacts emotions and behaviors
Food is not the same as a predictable supply of nutrients. One is a novelty, the other is a survival resource that can keep us out of corrections.
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References and Suggested reading/listening:
Peer Reviewed Scholarly Publications
Bygren, L. O., Tinghög, P., Carstensen, J., Edvinsson, S., Kaati, G., Pembrey, M. E., & Sjöström, M. (2014). Change in paternal grandmothers early food supply influenced cardiovascular mortality of the female grandchildren. BMC Genetics, 15, 2–7. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-15-12
Coplan, J. D., Gupta, N. K., Karim, A., Rozenboym, A., Smith, E. L. P., Kral, J., & Rosenblum, L. A. (2017). Maternal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis response to foraging uncertainty: A model of individual vs. social allostasis and the “superorganism hypothesis.” PLoS ONE, 12(9), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184340
Coplan, J. D., Rozenboym, A. V., Fulton, S. L., Panthangi, V., Tang, J., Thiramangalakdi, L., Perera, T. D., Liu, Y., Kamran, H., Owens, M. J., Nemeroff, C. B., Rosenblum, L. A., Kral, J. G., Salciccioli, L., & Lazar, J. (2018). Reduced left ventricular dimension and function following early life stress: A thrifty phenotype hypothesis engendering risk for mood and anxiety disorders. Neurobiology of Stress, 8, 202–210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynstr.2017.01.001
Jackowski, A., Perera, T. D., Abdallah, C. G., Garrido, G., Tang, C. Y., Martinez, J., Mathewe, S. J., Gorman, J. M., Rosenblum, L. A., Smith, E. L. P., Dwork, A. J., Shungu, D. C., Kaffman, A., Gelernter, J., Coplan, J. D., & Kaufman, J. (2011). Early-life stress, corpus callosum development, hippocampal volumetrics, and anxious behavior in male nonhuman primates. Psychiatry Research, 192(1), 37–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.11.006
King, S. E., Nilsson, E., Beck, D., & Skinner, M. K. (2019). Adipocyte epigenetic alterations and potential therapeutic targets in transgenerationally inherited lean and obese phenotypes following ancestral exposures. https://doi.org/10.1080/21623945.2019.1693747
Minster, R. L., Hawley, N. L., Su, C. T., Sun, G., Kershaw, E. E., Cheng, H., Buhule, O. D., Lin, J., Reupena, M. S., Viali, S., Tuitele, J., Naseri, T., Urban, Z., Deka, R., Weeks, D. E., & McGarvey, S. T. (2016). A thrifty variant in CREBRF strongly influences body mass index in Samoans. Nature Genetics, 48(9), 1049–1054. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3620
Rosenblum, L. A., Coplan, J. D., Friedman, S., Bassoff, T., Gorman, J. M., & Andrews, M. W. (1994). Adverse early experiences affect noradrenergic and serotonergic functioning in adult primates. Biological Psychiatry, 35(4), 221–227. https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3223(94)91252-1
Rushmore, R. J., McGaughy, J. A., Mokler, D. J., & Rosene, D. L. (2022). The enduring effect of prenatal protein malnutrition on brain anatomy, physiology and behavior. Nutritional Neuroscience, 25(7), 1392–1399. https://doi.org/10.1080/1028415X.2020.1859730
Seiden, A., Hawley, N. L., Schulz, D., Raifman, S., & Mcgarvey, S. T. (2012). Long-term trends in food availability, food prices, and obesity in samoa. American Journal of Human Biology, 24(3), 286–295. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.22237
Syed, S. A., Smith, E. L. P., Batuman, O., Rosenblum, L. A., Owens, M. J., Nemeroff, C. B., & Coplan, J. D. (2017). Adult glucocorticoid receptor mRNA expression volatility in response to an acute stressor and juvenile CSF corticotropin-releasing factor: A pilot neurodevelopmental study. Neuroscience Letters, 647(March), 20–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2017.03.017
Podcasts and Interviews
Media credit (photo/video/audio/animation) Sincere thanks to the following artists
Thumbnail - Fruits and Vegetables - Nathan Dumlao, Unsplash
Friends eating – Syda Productions, Storyblocks
Person eating burger – Mstoylik, Storyblocks
Tastebuds on tongue – istock.com/FuzzMartin
Man eating salad – kamila_p, Storyblocks
Organs and systems – istock.com/peterhowell
Person Texting – Angelo Moleele, Unsplash
Driving a car – HD_premium_shots, Storyblocks
Friends Hugging – Cinemarketing, Storyblocks
Person walking – VadosLoginov, Storyblocks
Growing Hair – KONSTANTIN SHISHKIN, Storyblocks
Wound Healing – istock.com/tbradford
Speaking on train platform – polly_belyaeva, Storyblocks
Woman Breathing – mcsingleton, Storyblocks
Heart beating – M.G.F.Studio, Storyblocks
Lungs breathing – istock.com/ALIOUI Mohammed Elamine
Empty kitchen cupboard - Paul Volkmer, Unsplash
Chicken soup can - Ben Lolli, Unsplash
Oxygen mask – istock.com/ivan-balvan
Little boy standing in kitchen - Kevin Gent, Unsplash
Family harvesting vegetables in garden – istock.com/ RyanJLane
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