Day 296 - 07 Nov 96 - Page 41
1 sales of hamburgers and chips.
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3 He also did the same calculations for adults and said that
4 for adults the daily maximum intake would be 92 grams of
5 fat and I think some of the meals had a fat content of 78
6 grams, so that would be 70 percent of their maximum daily
7 intake.
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9 MR JUSTICE BELL: I think something has gone wrong there.
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11 MS. STEEL: Yes. My notes are a bit --
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13 MR. MORRIS: I think, shall we say, that Tim Lobstein was
14 calculating on the basis of the government's
15 recommendations and Helen has made this point, but really
16 it should be calculated on the World Health Organisation's
17 recommended 15 percent calories from fat and diet to be
18 really concerned about optimum health, which would be less
19 than half of the government recommendations.
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21 MS. STEEL: I think these figures that he gave were all given
22 on day 32, page 42, so perhaps if you could read that
23 section with particular care, or whatever.
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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27 MS. STEEL: He did say, I think, that the meal that he had
28 referred to only contained 8.2 percent of a child's vitamin
29 A requirements and only three percent of an adult's vitamin
30 A requirements, so in terms of the fact that you were
31 getting a large percentage of your daily fat intake from
32 one meal you were only getting a tiny percentage of one of
33 the vitamins that you needed from that same meal. He,
34 I think, in particular, dealt with the issue about how to
35 judge whether or not a product or meal was low in vitamins
36 and minerals. He concluded that the nutrient density in a
37 McDonald's meal is low but there is an excess of fat and
38 calories for the other nutrients, so it cannot be
39 classified as nutritious. That was day 32, page 44.
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41 Just around that same page, he did make the point that the
42 maximum intake of sodium for adults would be 2.4 grams per
43 day and that a McDonald's meal would provide 60 to 62
44 percent of that daily intake, and that is just in one meal,
45 and that is the maximum recommended intake; that is not
46 what is actually a good idea to take.
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48 For his part, Dr. Barnard stated that the fat content in a
49 McDonald's meal is higher than an average and unmodified
50 diet and I think that ties in with the point that Dr.
51 Lobstein made about McDonald's taking the basic ingredients
52 and then adding fat, salt and sugar to make the products
53 more palatable, and in comparison to the most conservative
54 nutritional recommendations McDonald's meals were still
55 quite high in fat content. That was Dr. Barnard again on
56 day 33, page 8.
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58 Dr. Barnard said, and this is what I was referring to this
59 morning, that the effect of fat in an individual meal can
60 be shown, but on top of that, what is more important, is
