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1 we have to keep stopping you, because we do not have or we
2 do not all have the pages you wish to refer. It is not in
3 any way your responsibility I am just explaining why we
4 are going in fits and starts. What have we got here? We
5 have a cover and contents which is helpful.
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7 MR. MORRIS: I have page V then 1, 2, 3, and then 46, 47, 48,
8 49.
9 A. Well, that is wrong.
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11 Q. We should have page 45?
12 A. In the passage of events it is understandable, but the
13 page needed is page 45.
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15 MR. RAMPTON: Does it look like that?
16 A. Yes.
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18 MR. RAMPTON: I have that but nothing else.
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20 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I suggest is since Mr. Rampton has it,
21 you refer to the bits you would like to, Mr. Cannon, and
22 someone will provide me with a photocopy as soon as
23 possible. Mr. Cannon, you wanted to refer to something on
24 page 45. Carry on, please.
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26 THE WITNESS: Thank you. What I wanted to mention here is the
27 status of this document. The document as a whole was
28 produced as a process that started in 1989. There were
29 successive pre-conferences that were held in different
30 regions of the world which were then brought to a head at
31 the beginning of 1992, then through a succession of
32 meetings and processes between the meetings, and then
33 finally brought to a conclusion in Rome in December 1992.
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35 The report, as a whole, on the world nutrition situation
36 is particularly concerned with developing countries and,
37 therefore, si particularly concerned with under-nutrition
38 and food security. However, there is a section called
39 "Promoting Appropriate Diets and Healthy Lifestyles".
40 Mr. Rampton has the first page of that. The first
41 paragraph of that which is endorsed by all member states
42 is the one which I produced in evidence, which I am here
43 producing in evidence.
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45 MR. MORRIS: Would you like to read it out?
46 A. It is before the court in my witness statement. It
47 makes the same point as before. It characterises what the
48 so-called affluent or urbanised diet is and how that diet
49 is developed with affluence in urbanisation. Then it goes
50 on to say of diet: "These and other risk factors, as well
51 as increased life expectancy, are associated with the
52 increased prevalence of obesity, hypertension,
53 cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, osteoporosis and some
54 cancers with immense social and health care costs".
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is right at the end of your
57 supplemental statement.
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59 MR. MORRIS: Shall we move on to the next document then? The
60 next document which we have four pages of extracts from,
