[s3e5] A Cause For Concern May 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. In December 1964, , the vice president and

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

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