Day 266 - 20 Jun 96 - Page 37


     
     1        by the Department of Health, it is the opinion of the COMA
     2        panel of dietary reference values of committee and -- my
     3        Lord, it is number 41.
     4
     5   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes?
     6        A.   Could I have a copy of that?
     7
     8   MR. RAMPTON:   Of course you can.  I would not dream of your
     9        doing without a copy.  My Lord, page 52?
    10        A.   Page 52.  Right.
    11
    12   Q.   The passage that I am going to refer you to is a chapter
    13        about fat, which starts on page 39?
    14        A.   Page 39, not 52?
    15
    16   Q.   The chapter is just to show you what it is about.  It is
    17        the chapter on fat, and this is published in 1990 and
    18        republished in 1994.  The little passage that I am going to
    19        show you is in the section of the chapter on the
    20        relationship between cancer and fat, which starts at page
    21        49.
    22        A.   Page 49.
    23
    24   Q.   Yes, at paragraph 3.5?
    25        A.   Do you want me to read this out?
    26
    27   Q.   Not at all.  No.
    28
    29   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Do not be anxious if I might suggest, just
    30        listen to Counsel's questions and answer them.  If you have
    31        gone a certain way along with answering his questions and
    32        you have a reservation about something, then by all means
    33        state it.  But just trust him for the time being, and then
    34        come up any comment you want to make.
    35
    36   MR. RAMPTON:  I am only showing you--
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Do not bother, in other words, where it is
    39        taking you, just answer his questions for the moment?
    40        A.   Yes, certainly.
    41
    42   MR. RAMPTON:  I am only showing you this because you said that
    43        every government in the world, and indeed every health body
    44        in the world, agreed about these questions and one of the
    45        questions is the relationship between dietary fat and
    46        cancer.  Can you look at page 52, which is the
    47        "Conclusions" of the section on Dietary Fat and Cancer.
    48        This is what the COMA panel said.  It is 37.5.6:
    49
    50        "Conclusions:  The panel concluded that there is currently
    51        insufficient evidence on which to base a recommendation for
    52        a decrease in fat intakes to prevent cancer, although an 
    53        increase in consumption in any fatty acids should not be
    54        encouraged.  The panel agreed that the Dietary Reference
    55        Values based on other considerations", which is in relation
    56        to heart disease and matters of that kind, "were consistent
    57        with a prudent view of the current data relating dietary
    58        fat and the occurrence of cancer."
    59
    60        There is one government, and I will show you what the World

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