This is a super article from BEEF Magazine.

Members of the Nutrition Coalition said Americans followed the government dietary guidelines at the same time obesity burgeoned.

This flies in the face of conventional wisdom, in which doctors and nutritionists tell people they are obese entirely because they eat the wrong foods and don't exercise.

The Nutrition Coalition is a group of dietary researchers and others who emphasize results from years of scientific evidence about nutrition's relationship to human health rather than clinging to and re-mouthing the failed hypotheses of the past.

This very professional discussion is complete with graphs that illustrate how governmental dietary guidelines have increased obesity and healthcare costs in America. Here is the full text.