Day 032 - 06 Oct 94 - Page 14


     
     1        hours?
     2        A.  Not necessarily.  I do not think this report would
     3        state that that is because it is what they ate at lunch
     4        time.  I do not think we can draw that conclusion.
     5
     6   Q.   If we refer back to page 28 the implications of that last
     7        paragraph as indicated, "(see paras 8.3.4.2 and 8.4.6)";
     8        8.3.4.2 on page 28, it refers to those particular girls.
     9        Shall I read it out?  "Of the older girls, 54 per cent ate
    10        out of school at cafes etc at lunchtime. Although their
    11        daily energy intakes were no different from other groups
    12        of older girls, they had the lowest intakes of iron, and
    13        of protein, calcium, carotene, retinol equivalent,
    14        nicotinic acid equivalent and vitamin D.  The nutritional
    15        quality of the daily diets of these girls, in terms of
    16        nutrients per", what is MJ?
    17        A.  Megajoules.
    18
    19   Q.   "... was lower than in any other group of older girls
    20        taking lunch from any other source."
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It looks to me as if you must be wrong when
    23        you say that it was not related to lunch during the school
    24        week, because the structure of both paragraphs 9.5.6 and
    25        9.6.6 appears to be related to the type of lunch consumed
    26        during the school week, and the paragraph Mr. Morris has
    27        just read out looks as if it must be the same 54 girls,
    28        does it not?
    29
    30   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
    31
    32   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Who ate out of school at cafes etc. at lunch
    33        time?
    34        A.  Yes.  Sorry, what I am trying to say is whether the
    35        foods they ate most of ----
    36
    37   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I see.
    38        A.  -- necessarily came from the source of their lunch.
    39        It would be their total weekly intake had more eggs etc.
    40        etc..  Of those 54 girls they showed a higher total
    41        consumption of those foods.
    42
    43   MR. MORRIS:  I believe I might have said, when I read out
    44        8.3.4.2, "54 per cent".  It is 54 girls, which is 11 per
    45        cent.
    46
    47   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is obviously the same 54 girls.
    48        A.  Yes.
    49
    50   MR. MORRIS:  If we go to 8.4.6 on page 29, third line:  "... 
    51        the nutritional quality of their lunchtime meals" -- this 
    52        is for the older children who ate out of school -- "was 
    53        lower" -- sorry, "The proportion of daily energy intakes
    54        obtained by older children who ate out of school was
    55        similar to that of children who took a midday meal at
    56        home.  However the nutritional quality of their lunchtime
    57        meals was lower. In particular, the older boys obtained
    58        the lowest amounts of protein, calcium, iron, retinol
    59        equivalent, thiamin, riboflavin and nicotinic acid
    60        equivalent from their cafe meals".

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