[s3e5] A Cause For Concern May 2026

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

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. [S3E5] A Cause for Concern

Research by British physiologist John Yudkin and others suggested that sucrose , rather than just saturated fat, was a primary dietary cause of heart disease. This memo marked the beginning of an industry-funded

The Breaking the Taboo podcast has an episode (Series 3, Episode 5) where a "routine checkup turned into a cause for concern". To counter this, the SRF funded Project 226

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

Results * SRF's Interest in Promoting a Low-Fat Diet to Prevent CHD. Sugar Research Foundation president Henry Hass's 1954 speech, National Institutes of Health (.gov)