Day 014 - 20 Jul 94 - Page 24
1 membership and the observers please. I will not read them
out. Have you looked down the list?
2 A. Yes.
3 Q. Tell me when you have finished?
A. Yes.
4
Q. It may seem to you an idiotic question, but are those
5 people regarded as authoritative in their particular
fields?
6 A. Yes, they are.
7 Q. Is there any sense in which they might be regarded as the
stooges or pawns of industry?
8 A. Not to my knowledge.
9 Q. If you turn to page (xix). It begins here with a series
of tables (which we shall have to come back to). The
10 first table 1.1 is the EAR for energy. What it does is to
divide the population, as I understand it, into males and
11 females and then give an EAR for each group according to
age?
12 A. Yes.
13 Q. Expressed both in megajoules and in kilo calories. Is
that right?
14 A. Yes.
15 Q. So we see that for a male 19 to 50 years old, the EAR is
10.6 megajoules or 2,550 kilo calories?
16 A. Yes.
17 Q. As one would expect, the EAR for a woman of the same age,
a generalised standardised woman, is considerably less or
18 a bit less anyway.
19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The kilograms work out at about 11 stone for
a man, about nine and a half stone for a woman, do they?
20 Perhaps it does not matter.
A. I am not absolutely sure.
21
MR. RAMPTON: I am coming to that. What I was going to suggest
22 to Professor Wheelock was this. A generalised figure of
this kind, whilst interesting, is not perhaps the best
23 guide to what an individual requires as his energy intake?
A. Yes, that is right.
24
Q. One can see later on there are tables which enable one to
25 calculate much more precisely what the EAR should be, or
is, for a person of a given weight, a given age and a
26 given level of physical activity?
A. That is right.
27
Q. Please turn over the page to page (xx) and here we find
28 the committee's -- I think we will have to call it the
panel's -- the panel's recommendation of dietary reference
29 values for fat and carbohydrate for adults as a percentage
of daily total energy intake?
30 A. Yes.
