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1 in between those two figures would be the appropriate
2 amount?
3 A. Well, the World Health Organisation had a temerity to
4 put forward a figure which it saw as a ceiling.
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6 MR. MORRIS: Sorry, would that figure by the World Health
7 Organisation be something that would be a fairly
8 responsible figure?
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You do not need to keeping asking that
11 question.
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13 THE WITNESS: Yes. All I wish to show is that this quantity of
14 sodium reaches -- gets towards more than half and perhaps
15 two-thirds of the sorts of levels of salt that would be
16 recommended as a maximum at least by the World Health
17 Organisation. So again -----
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19 MR. RAMPTON: I am sorry, my Lord. I am not understanding.
20 Could the witness say now -- it would help in the future
21 -- whether he means salt or whether he means sodium?
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
24 A. I am using the two interchangeably in a sense as a
25 proportion both are true. For sodium it reaches, if it is
26 1488 -----
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Stick to sodium because that is what we have
29 got given to us on the meal plan.
30 A. In which case the World Health Organisation figure for
31 sodium would be 2,400. This, therefore, reaches
32 approximately two-thirds of that level.
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34 MS. STEEL: You said you have done this exercise for all eight
35 of the meals, did you; is that right?
36 A. Yes.
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38 Q. Were they by and large the same? I do not know whether we
39 need to go into them all or not.
40 A. I would say that the generality of the statement that
41 they are high in fat compared with several of their
42 essential nutrients would apply.
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44 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If I might suggest, you do not need to go
45 into them all with the witness. He has given the
46 structure of his point. When you come to make submissions
47 at the end of the case, if you want to point at another
48 meal plan, you can ask me to look at it and deal with sums
49 on that.
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51 MS. STEEL: OK. (To the witness): Would it be fair to say
52 that the more unbalanced your meal, the harder it is to
53 balance your diet?
54 A. It is an awkward to answer that in a direct sense but
55 I would say -----
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57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is bound to follow as night follows
58 day, is it not?
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60 MS. STEEL: It is only .....
