I wasn’t around when it started, but it seems to me that the entire history of government involvement in food (with a few exceptions) consists of making a problem where none previously existed, “solving” the problem with alternating and often conflicting advice and action that generally caused more harm then good, and, where we are now, eventually coming to the conclusion that the best course of action would have been to have left things as they were before they got involved.
I remember when the government was telling us that so called, “tropical oils” like coconut and palm oil, were the worst kinds of bad. Now coconut oil is a superfood.