[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.

Research by British physiologist John Yudkin and others suggested that sucrose , rather than just saturated fat, was a primary dietary cause of heart disease. [S3E5] A Cause for Concern

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) In December 1964, , the vice president and