Day 014 - 20 Jul 94 - Page 44
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MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, yes. The actual excluded group is
2 non-milk extrinsic sugar; is that not right?
A. Yes, that is right.
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Q. Non-milk. I was wrong in suggesting honey, you were
4 uncertain and his Lordship has corrected it?
A. Absolutely.
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MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is 553. Yes, thank you.
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MR. RAMPTON: Yes. May we now turn, Professor Wheelock, to
7 fibre, but before I do that, there is a question his
Lordship raised yesterday which I wonder if you can answer
8 which is this: Where one sees what are variously called
recommended daily allowances or ADIs which are acceptable
9 daily intakes, or DRVs, for a certain quantity of a
substance per day, is one looking at a diet over a week or
10 a year or a lifetime? What is one actually looking at
when one sees that recommended figure on a daily basis?
11 A. It is impossible to be absolutely categoric, but what
I could say is that we are not just looking at one day in
12 isolation. It is more likely to be over a week or over a
month.
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Q. Take a week. If I have, let us say, in excess of my DRV
14 for saturated fat in one day, can I balance that by eating
less than my DRV in the next day or two?
15 A. In my view, yes.
16 Q. Can we then go to dietary fibre, page 61 of this grey
volume, chapter 4, described by the learned gentlemen as
17 non-starch polysaccharides. I will read the
introduction: "In considering the nutritional role of
18 what is known as 'dietary fibre' the Panel was hindered in
making a sound scientific assessment of the literature
19 because of imprecision in its terminology. Over the years
a variety of both of definitions and of analytical
20 techniques has been used which are not necessarily
comparable. The Panel supported the proposition by others
21 that the term 'dietary fibre' should become obsolete and
decided for reasons given below, that specific evidence in
22 relation to dietary non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) would
be reviewed. NSP are the major fraction of 'dietary
23 fibre' whatever definition is used, are chemically
identifiable and can be measured with reasonable
24 precision. Where possible the physical properties of NSP
have also been taken been taken into account."
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Then if you drop your eye down to the bottom of 4.2.1 you
26 see the sentence: "Non-starch polysaccharides are the
main component of the plant cell wall and the best single
27 index of the dietary fibre concept". Professor Wheelock,
as an expression of the state of learning in 1991, do you
28 agree with those observations?
A. Yes, I do.
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Q. Thank you. Then can we turn over the page where we see a
30 table, page 62, table 4.1, and we see where we might find
which kinds of polysaccharides, do we not?
