Day 037 - 14 Oct 94 - Page 64
1 A. Thank you.
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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.
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8 Q. This year?
9 A. Yes.
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11 Q. What date?
12 A. 22nd April 1994. He must obviously have taken account
13 of his own research in his article.
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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?
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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 ----
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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.
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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."
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42 Q. Is that all you wish to read?
43 A. It goes on and on.
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45 Q. If you would not mind, let me have the document, subject
46 of course to his Lordship's direction.
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48 MR. MORRIS: Has it go any handwritten notes on it?
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50 THE WITNESS: I have my own underlinings and so on.
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: But not real comments of your own written on
53 it?
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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.
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59 MR. MORRIS: I would like to see it after you have finished
60 reading it, please.
