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1 government put out its recent -- we use a nutrition
2 pyramid which is actually a triangle but sometimes
3 described as a pyramid -- trying to describe relative
4 amounts of foods that might be included in the diet, meat
5 and dairy products were deemphasised; grains, vegetables
6 and fruits were emphasised in that graphic, and its
7 unveiling elicited such controversy, particularly from the
8 meat lobby, that it was withdrawn for fully 12 months
9 before it was released again.
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11 That is just one example, but every time nutrition
12 guidelines are drafted there is a great deal of opposition
13 from the food industry. We have grown to expect that
14 because we have seen that with the tobacco and liquor
15 industries before them. It is simply a fact of life.
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17 MR. MORRIS: I have no further questions.
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You are going to leave that, are you? If
20 you look at the second sheet of ours, it is headed,
21 "Contents" and it has a (i) at the bottom, in the top
22 left-hand corner I think this was the quote I had in mind
23 when I asked you a question a few minutes ago about the
24 difficulty in making changes in the diet or unwillingness
25 to change: "Since appetite is governed by the need for
26 energy, and since changes in energy intake are difficult
27 to sustain, it becomes especially important to consider
28 which foods are habitually chosen to satisfy energy
29 needs". Where does that quote come from in the report, do
30 you know?
31 A. No, I regret to say I do not.
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33 Q. Do you know what it is trying to say?
34 A. My -----
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36 Q. It is not easy for me anyway to understand when it is just
37 quoted shortly like that.
38 A. Yes, my presumption is that they are trying to say
39 that one can get an adequate calorie intake from foods
40 that are healthful such as complex carbohydrates which are
41 found, of course, only in plant products or from high fat
42 products or meat; that one can have adequate calorie
43 intake from either source, but that since one will always
44 seek out calories every day, multiple times each day, it
45 is important that those be derived from healthy sources.
46 I presume that is what that paragraph is getting at.
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48 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I think the passage from which the bit
49 your Lordship referred to is based appears on page 1 as
50 the first complete paragraph on the right-hand column.
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52 MR. MORRIS: I have not got page 1 in my copy.
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not think I have it either.
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56 MR. RAMPTON: Would your Lordship like a complete copy?
57 (Handed). I do not know if it helps explain it, but that
58 is where it comes from.
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, may be. It does not take the matter
