[cageface]

In fact most people ignored the dietary guidelines, as people generally do, and kept right on eating fat. In the decades since those guidelines were released people have increased calorie intake of all kinds across the board.

Which is why even though sugar consumption peaked years ago, and is now in decline, obesity and all its related diseases are at an all time high.

[tcbawo]

I am surprised to hear that sugar consumption peaked years ago. I was under the impression that when accounting for sugar added to products, it has continued to increase. As for obesity, I blame the weaponization of the sugar/salt/fat balance towards making processed foods more addictive.

[cageface]

This is the problem with the whole "carbs are making us fat" narrative. Sugar consumption peaked in 1999. But consumption of chicken and cheese has gone through the roof since then. As you can see from the charts, the decades where people were supposedly loading up on carbs were also decades where meat consumption exploded.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic...

Americans are eating too much of everything, basically. A lot of the health benefits attributed to various diets are just the intrinsic benefits of losing weight.