[s3e5] A Cause For Concern Apr 2026

In December 1964, , the vice president and research director of the Sugar Research Foundation (SRF) , wrote a memo to an SRF subcommittee stating that new research into coronary heart disease (CHD) was a "cause for concern" . This memo marked the beginning of an industry-funded effort to downplay the risks of sugar.

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To counter this, the SRF funded Project 226 , a literature review designed to shift the blame for CHD away from sugar and toward fat. [S3E5] A Cause for Concern

The review, titled "Dietary Fats, Carbohydrates and Atherosclerotic Disease," was published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in 1967. It concluded that the only necessary dietary intervention to prevent heart disease was reducing fat and cholesterol—largely ignoring sugar's role. Modern Pop Culture References

The Breaking the Taboo podcast has an episode (Series 3, Episode 5) where a "routine checkup turned into a cause for concern". In December 1964, , the vice president and

Warrior Season 3, Episode 5, "Whiskey and Sticky and All the Rest," is frequently reviewed with "cause for concern" as a central theme regarding the series' characters and plotlines.

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Research by British physiologist John Yudkin and others suggested that sucrose , rather than just saturated fat, was a primary dietary cause of heart disease.