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     1        A.  Thank you.
     2
     3   Q.   If you have a document then, necessarily, we shall have to
     4        see it.
     5        A.  Well, I would like to refer you to an article by
     6        Walter Willett published this year.
     7
     8   Q.   This year?
     9        A.  Yes.
    10
    11   Q.   What date?
    12        A.  22nd April 1994.  He must obviously have taken account
    13        of his own research in his article.
    14
    15   Q.   Can you give us a reference?
    16        A.  Science, volume 264.  The article is called "Diet and
    17        Health - What Should We Eat?"  Perhaps I can read parts of
    18        it to you?
    19
    20   Q.   Yes.  Then if you would not mind handing the whole thing
    21        over to me when you have read it.
    22        A.  I am reading from page 533.  The section heading is
    23        "Dietary Fat and Cancer".  I will read as much as I can,
    24        actually, to avoid ----
    25
    26   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Read it loud not too fast?
    27        A.  OK.  "Dietary Fat and Cancer.  A major justification
    28        for decreasing dietary fat has been the anticipated
    29        reductions in cancers of the breast, colon and prostate.
    30        The primary support for the proposed link between dietary
    31        fat and cancer is that countries with low-fat intake, also
    32        the less affluent nations, have had low rates of these
    33        cancers.  These correlations with cancer have been seen
    34        primarily with animal fat and meat consumption, rather
    35        than with vegetable fat consumption."  These are the words
    36        of Walter Willett.
    37
    38   MR. RAMPTON:  Is that all?
    39        A.  "The hypothesis that greater fat intake increases
    40        breast cancer risk is supported by many animal studies."
    41
    42   Q.   Is that all you wish to read?
    43        A.  It goes on and on.
    44
    45   Q.   If you would not mind, let me have the document, subject
    46        of course to his Lordship's direction.
    47
    48   MR. MORRIS:  Has it go any handwritten notes on it?
    49
    50   THE WITNESS:  I have my own underlinings and so on. 
    51 
    52   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  But not real comments of your own written on 
    53        it?
    54
    55   MR. RAMPTON:  Thank you.  What I am going to do, Mr. Cox, as we
    56        proceed is to show this to my learned junior for him to
    57        read.  I promise he will not mark it.
    58
    59   MR. MORRIS:  I would like to see it after you have finished
    60        reading it, please.

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