Can you point to an example food(s) that had high fat, and low sugar, and then after this policy, low fat, and high sugar... ?
And I don't know how the whole craze about non-plain yogurt came. I'm bulgarian native, and it's "foreign" to me that yogurt is mixed with any sugar at all.
It's still yummy - you can mix it equal portions with water, shake it well - and you get a very good drink. Or make this cold soup - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarator
Or just eat it like this. No need for sugar...
Because flavor. It turns out that when you remove fat from a foodstuff, it tends not to taste nearly as good.
Malhotra also points to the United States, where percentage calorie consumption from fat has declined from 40% to 30% in the past 30 years (although absolute fat consumption has remained the same), yet obesity has rocketed. One reason, he says, is that the food industry “compensated by replacing saturated fat with added sugar.”