Gotbeer, you probably are better at looking this up than me, but I remember reading an article a couple of months ago. It said that the WHO had presented a report to the UN on epidemic obesity in third-world countries. The population was going from malnourished to obese in one generation because of sugar. Just sugar.
But the US government refused to accept the report. The huge (and generous) sugar lobby got to them, and demanded that the report be re-written to be "sweeter" to the sugar interests.
Looks like they've been working overtime.