Day 031 - 05 Oct 94 - Page 47
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2 MR. MORRIS: You have it; we gave it to you this morning.
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4 MR. RAMPTON: If some part of it is going to be referred to
5 which is not Dr. Arnott's references, then I should like
6 to have it now. Thank you.
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8 MR. MORRIS: If I just read out from page 109?
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10 MS. STEEL: I can hand up my section; it has not got anything
11 written on it.
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13 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I would like to do, if you give me a
14 page is tell me whether it is in what I have already.
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16 MR. MORRIS: I think it might be in the Geoffrey Cannon
17 section.
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is in the bit I have already?
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21 MR. RAMPTON: It is in the bit your Lordship inserted into
22 Dr. Arnott's reference 26.
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24 MS. STEEL: Shall I hand this up for the witness?
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, certainly. (Handed to the witness)
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28 MR. MORRIS: On page 109 -- this is just for the record -- this
29 is the World Health Organisation Report 1990, "Diet,
30 Nutrition and Prevention of Chronic Diseases". Just
31 before we go to any specifics, what is your view of the
32 kind of advice and analyses that the World Health
33 Organisation and its status as an authoritative body?
34 A. The World Health Organisation pulls together groups of
35 people who are expert in their field. Part of the problem
36 of reviewing evidence is that we all in science tend to
37 say our own bit in the scientific literature viewed from
38 our own perspectives.
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40 The function of a body like the World Health Organisation
41 is to bring together people from different disciplines and
42 from different countries to get a distillate of the wisdom
43 that is current. I think that says it all. This is a
44 distillate of the contemporary wisdom that you can extract
45 from a body of people who will know what they are talking
46 about.
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48 Q. On page 109 under the heading of "Total Fat," these are
49 the goals they are recommending -- is that correct ---
50 A. Yes.
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52 Q. -- to the world? Then their lower limit they give for fat
53 as a contribution to energy is 15 per cent, lower limit,
54 and upper limit 30 per cent as an interim goal. Does that
55 mean that they feel it should be, in fact, lower than
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57 A. I suspect that it does. I think they obviously want
58 to have the total fat intake down to below 30 per cent is
59 really what it means.
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