Day 037 - 14 Oct 94 - Page 35
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2 Q. You say they have adopted it by purporting to give
3 nutritional advice?
4 A. Exactly, thank you.
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6 MR. MORRIS: Not only do they give nutritional advice, but does
7 it not imply in this statement they have chosen "to help
8 our customers eat a healthy balanced diet"?
9 A. Yes, of course it does.
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11 Q. If we leave that document now and go back to your
12 statement, you say: "If the Plaintiffs were as genuinely
13 interested in promoting healthy eating as they profess to
14 be", with that last statement from that document seem to
15 be one of those indications?
16 A. Yes, absolutely.
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18 Q. "I would expect to see" and then you say what kind of --
19 you read out the sections from your statement or matters
20 you want to see?
21 A. I would make those two points. I mean, the first
22 point I think is something of -- there is very little
23 absolutely universally agreed truth in the way of medicine
24 and science in my encounters with those disciplines, but
25 this certainly has to be one of them. The importance of
26 consuming more fresh vegetables, particularly green leafy
27 vegetables, particularly vegetables that are orange and
28 yellow, and they do not do this. This is such an
29 important point and they do not do it. They sell salads,
30 I understand, in some outlets. They are not available in
31 the outlets I have seen.
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33 I have, however, looked at the analysis off a chef's salad
34 in the booklets to which you previously referred, the one
35 with the green cover. It seems pretty extraordinary,
36 because again salads traditionally are thought of as very
37 healthy foods. If you look at the amount of fat in that,
38 it is ludicrously high.
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40 I do not have a copy of it in front of me but, I mean,
41 anybody can work out in a matter of moments what
42 percentage of calories it derives from fat. It seems an
43 extraordinary perversion almost. This is what we are
44 talking about so many times here; meanings of words,
45 semantics. It seems an extraordinary perversion of the
46 word "salad" to use it in connection with such a high food
47 as the chef's salad is.
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49 Q. High-fat?
50 A. High-fat food, yes; quite amazing.
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52 Q. Let us deal with one thing at a time. You would like to
53 see an emphasis ----?
54 A. Yes.
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56 Q. - on the consumption of fresh vegetables?
57 A. That is right. If they staked out their claim to be
58 purveyors of healthy food to the nation, then they have an
59 over-riding obligation to do this.
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