Hello frens, I need data on when FDA contradicted itself, was factually and provably wrong, or flip flopped on medical information. Specifically I need examples. My medical provider asked me to pull up this specific data, not actually medical data, on this to provide in a medical exemption
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Around 2011, the Cochrane Group, which does/did top notch meta-analyses of published medical studies, found that approximately 75% of people with hypertension did not need to follow a low-sodium diet. In fact, there was a sub-group of individuals who actually had more cardio-vascular issues when they followed sodium restriction guidelines.
The CDC was heavily invested in pushing a sodium restricted diet of 2300mg. per day for just about everyone and then quietly commissioned their own study. The findings of Cochrane were robust, but CDC never came out and reversed their message. They just slowly, over several years, stopped advertising the message.
I remember this distinctly, because my father loved his salt, and for the last 5 years of his life, followed a disgusting low sodium diet.