Day 014 - 20 Jul 94 - Page 71


     
     1        A.  Yes.
 
     2   Q.   So in that case he is getting just about half ---
              A.  That is right.
     3
         Q.   -- of his saturated fat allowance for from this meal?
     4        A.  That is right.
 
     5   Q.   For that day?
              A.  Yes.
     6
         Q.   This is, I am afraid, a grade one primary school question:
     7        It follows, does it not, Professor Wheelock, that provided
              he ate sensible things at other times during the day, he
     8        could repeat that meal seven times a week, 52 weeks of the
              year, could he not?
     9        A.  There should not be any problem.
 
    10   Q.   One final thing, Professor Wheelock:  Are you conscious
              that in America from time to time scientists, doctors,
    11        nutritionists and so on -- it is not the final thing --
              have recommended lower limits, not as we saw in the
    12        official guidelines, but from time to time learned
              gentlemen have suggested low limits for total unsaturated
    13        fat than we use in this country?
              A.  Oh, yes.
    14
         Q.   Do you have any view about whether it is a black and white
    15        question?
              A.  At the end of the day it is a matter of judgment that
    16        an individual would come to as to what is, shall we say,
              the best figure that ought to be achieved.  There is no
    17        doubt that views on this can differ, views can change in
              the light of changing knowledge, changing perceptions,
    18        changing attitudes towards diet and all the rest of it.
              Given the fact there is a very wide variation in the
    19        actual requirement for individuals and that we are dealing
              with a very complicated subject, that is entirely
    20        reasonable, to my view.
 
    21   Q.   Can we go back to table 1?  I am not going to go through
              the whole of the same exercise so far as the child is
    22        concerned.  I make this observation:  Look at meal 2 which
              again I chose as being a sort of middle of the road meal,
    23        hamburger, regular fries, regular Diet Coke and apple pie,
              using the same tables in the grey book one can find that a
    24        nine year-old boy has an energy EAR for a day of 2,040
              calories.  Will you accept that?
    25        A.  Yes.
  
    26   Q.   Using that as the base figure for the day -- my Lord, 
              I just give the figures because it is a laborious process; 
    27        anybody can correct it in due course if I am wrong -- the
              number of calories represented by 46.4 per cent of 702,
    28        I think, is 327.8?
              A.  Right.
    29
         Q.   That means that 327.8 calories of total fat is 16, just
    30        over 16, 16.06, per cent of the DRV?
              A.  Yes.

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