In a healthy population, only about 5% of the children are obese. This was how it was in the United States until 1980. Since then, we have experienced an obesity epidemic. Nowadays, over 15% of American children are obese. So what happened in 1980 to trigger this epidemic? In this book I investigate the impact of the Dietary Goals and Dietary Guidelines that became the law of the land in 1980 and forced changes in the diets of our children.