Precisely. A lot of money has been made by a lot of people selling weight-loss schemes and drugs.
Even more has been made by pharmaceutical companies and doctors who push drugs like metformin (the
muscle-wasting drug) for Type II diabetes when a proper diet and exercise are the cures.
Heart disease caused by the food pyramid has also been a gold mine for surgeons and pill pushers every-
where. Meantime, we sicken and die as the poster children for crony capitalism (cause a problem, sell the
"cure") reap the rewards.
I woke up to these disgusting scams 12 years ago when I read up on and then started low-carbing and
got a look at my blood work after three months.
You are so right. The “Obesity epidemic” is directly related to the changes in the “Food Pyramid” demanded by by the McGovern Committee in 1977. The move away from meat and protein to carbs fattened the public like nothing else.