Day 298 - 11 Nov 96 - Page 05


     
     1        said "fact intake", but never mind - will be needed to
     2        attain a low risk of fat-related cancers.  He said that
     3        that indicates in the very broadest sense of causality that
     4        reduction in saturated fats will remove a significant part
     5        of the cause of that cancer.
     6
     7        He went on to say that he agreed with the statement that
     8        followed that -- "Nevertheless evidence indicates that the
     9        diet that is low in total and saturated fats, high in
    10        farmed foods, especially green and yellow vegetables and
    11        citrus fruits, low in alcohol and salt and pickled foods is
    12        consistent with a low risk of many of the current major
    13        cancers including cancer of the colon, prostate, breast,
    14        stomach, lung and oesophagus." He said he agreed with
    15        that.
    16
    17        He also said -- this is on page 90 from lines 18 to 30 --
    18        that he agreed that dietary factors are now known to
    19        influence the development of a wide range of chronic
    20        diseases, eg coronary heart disease, various cancers,
    21        hypertension, cerebro-vascular disease and diabetes."
    22
    23        Just moving on to Professor Campbell, who was Product
    24        Director of the China Oxford Cornell diet and health
    25        project, and I think I referred last week to the fact that
    26        he was on the...  I can't remember - yes, that he was chair
    27        the Dietary Prevention of Cancer Worldwide, which was a
    28        highly distinguished international committee of scientists
    29        set up to look into and evaluate links between diet and
    30        cancer, and also that he was co-author and member of the
    31        National Academy of Sciences expert panel on diet,
    32        nutrition and cancer between 1981 and 1983, and that was
    33        the one that produced the green book that we referred to
    34        earlier in the trial.
    35
    36        Just referring to the China study, he said that the
    37        findings from the investigation of diet and disease
    38        relationships in rural China strongly supported the
    39        proposition that a high fat, low fibre diet is causal in
    40        the development of a wide range of cancer and
    41        cardiovascular disease.  That was page 9, line 37.
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Which day?
    44
    45   MS. STEEL:   Sorry, this is all day 256.
    46
    47   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Yes.
    48
    49   MS. STEEL:  Then it was put to him, "Assuming that we establish
    50        that typical McDonald's meals are high in fat, sugar and
    51        animal products, salt, sodium, low in vitamins and minerals
    52        would a diet of such nature lead to a very real risk that
    53        you will suffer cancer of the breast or bowel or heart
    54        disease as a result?"  He said, "Yes."  That was on page 10
    55        lines 42 to 47.
    56
    57        On page 11 he went on to say, "When one has both biological
    58        plausibility on the one hand, together with the numerous
    59        associations that have been published many times over, it
    60        clearly establishes a very, very strong and convincing

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