Day 269 - 25 Jun 96 - Page 81
1 margarine?
2 A. Yes.
3
4 Q. Yes. Well, now, this, you might think, is interesting.
5 These are grammes per person per day. In France it is
6 under ten grammes per person per day?
7 A. Yes.
8
9 Q. Whereas we and the Germans are just about equal at just
10 under 20?
11 A. Yes.
12
13 Q. Your margarine phenomenon cannot be explanatory of the
14 French paradox can it?
15 A. No, I do not think the margarine story has anything to
16 do with the French paradox. I think the French paradox is
17 much more to do with their concern about the way they grow
18 their food and the way they pay attention to fresh food and
19 the diversity of it.
20
21 Q. Then if you pass over to meat, which is the next one going
22 left, total meat which includes poultry?
23 A. Sure.
24
25 Q. All ready sources of saturated fat and eventually serial
26 cholesterol?
27 A. Poultry should not be a source of saturated fat.
28 Poultry should not be a source of saturated fat.
29
30 Q. It depends if you take the skin off does it not?
31 A. It depends if it has been intensively reared and fed
32 on beef talon, which some people do, and then it becomes
33 saturated, but normal free range poultry and poultry fed on
34 grains will not have a saturated fat content.
35
36 Q. I want to get away from chickens and look at something,
37 please. The total meat table?
38 A. Yes.
39
40 Q. The French are just about on 300 grammes per person per
41 day?
42 A. Yes.
43
44 Q. Yes. We are on about 200?
45 A. Yes.
46
47 Q. And the Germans on about 280, would you agree?
48 A. Yes.
49
50 Q. Those are significant differences are they not?
51 A. That includes poultry, which is a pity. You have to
52 sort of visually subtract the poultry from that thing. It
53 does not look like a very strikingly significant difference
54 except between Britain and Portugal to me.
55
56 Q. Nearly 100 grammes a day per person?
57 A. Between who and who, sorry, I missed that?
58
59 Q. Between us and the French? It is almost exactly 100
60 grammes difference per person per day?
