Doctors blaming food companies for our health crisis is convenient yet coming from a biased perspective. They are part of the problem.

I've heard everything, mostly in the name of whom to blame for the diabesity crisis. 

It works like this. Those in medicine notice that there is an increase in medical conditions that burden our hospital system. They work with government and pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs to address the issue. With the possible exception of drugs for infection and some cancers, most drugs will need to be taken for a lifetime to address chronic conditions.

In Western medicine, physicians are trained best for the sickest and those needing emergency care. Physicians often gravitate to specialties (as if we are the sum of our organs and body systems). Often a holistic view of the person's health is absent until all else fails.  Their system waits until one is ill enough to be diagnosed based on laboratory tests. 

Physicians then treat those who have disease. At this point, the patients they see typically need what they provide in the form of medicine or drugs because they are strong remedies. Much of the medical training and research the physicians rely on is supported by profit driven pharmaceutical companies. 

Doctors who are trained to prescribe drugs do so, and, when the patient has too many diseases (some from the side effects of a drug and others from disease progression) polypharmacy results (too many prescriptions often interacting). Eventually, there is nothing the doctor can do. 

Doctors hypothesize based on their knowledge of the human body from medical school and continuing education. It is difficult for them to keep up with the latest information given the large amount of research they have access to. They only have so many hours in their day. Pharmaceutical reps give them information on the latest drug advancements which can be helpful however, at the same time as they are educating the doctors they are also marketing drugs to them. New drugs typically have higher profit margins. There is clearly an inherent bias in the process. 

In contrast to the profitable drugs sold by pharmaceutical companies, the food industry works off of much smaller profit margins and considerably more volume. Often the ingredients in formulating new products are components of subsidized crops. The ingredients used that are not GRAS (generally recognized as safe) may be regulated by government research. Examples are artificial colors and sweeteners.

I listen to the latest doctor, or dietician blame the food industry for the sick patients that they see. Journalists and consumers repeat what they hear and read. It's safe for the professionals to blame the industry that is not paying their paycheck. It is also easy to blame whoever or whatever immediately proceeds the situation. But too often that is not the root cause of the problem. 

The truth is that everyone has a role in this.

I have another perspective.