Day 266 - 20 Jun 96 - Page 53


     
     1        people, it is easier to change their diets because they are
     2        more susceptible to new ideas and they are more prepared to
     3        make changes.
     4
     5   Q.   Do you know or do you agree that the consumption of what
     6        you would call an unhealthy diet for a limited period of a
     7        person's life, let us say a man between ages of 16 and 25
     8        who is playing football, going for walks or bicycling or
     9        whatever people do at that age, may not have any long term
    10        effect on his health if his dietary pattern changes once he
    11        settles down and has children?
    12        A.  In terms of dietary patterns they tend to be formed
    13        very early on in childhood and in early life peoples'
    14        dietary habits become fairly fixed.  Once people become
    15        sort of young adults, it becomes increasingly more
    16        difficult to change their dietary habits, once they have
    17        got into sort of like the burger and chips culture and that
    18        style of eating, it is very difficult to introduce new
    19        healthy types of food to them.  And if we are looking at
    20        again, looking at changing the diet of the nation which is,
    21        you know, what my job and what I am employed to do as a
    22        very small role in that, then it is much easier to change
    23        peoples' diets when they are young people.
    24
    25   Q.   Do you also know that the rates of death from coronary
    26        heart disease in this country, England I mean, since this
    27        is an English Court, have dropped sharply between 1979 and
    28        1990?
    29        A.   Yes, there has been some achievement there, yes.
    30
    31   Q.   My Lord, I do not think I have any further questions.
    32
    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No.  Just pause a moment.  Thank you.
    34
    35                      Re-examined by MISS STEEL
    36
    37   Q.   In the front of dietary reference values for food energy
    38        and nutrients for the United Kingdom, there is some summary
    39        tables for estimated average requirements for energy.  This
    40        is on--
    41
    42   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Table 1.1.
    43
    44   MS. STEEL:   That is the one.
    45
    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, with a Roman 19 at the bottom.
    47
    48   MS. STEEL:  (To the witness):  Yes.
    49        A.   Yes.
    50
    51   Q.   And there, there is a table for age fifteen-eighteen years
    52        and under the males it would be 2,755 kilocalories a day. 
    53        Is that correct?
    54        A.   Yes.
    55
    56   Q.   If we were to take, divide that by, well if we were to take
    57        thirty per cent of that would you agree that would come out
    58        at about 765 calories, kilocalories?
    59        A.  So you are taking 30 percent of that 2,700.
    60

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