Day 015 - 21 Jul 94 - Page 30
1 A. Unbalanced with respect to what? What do you mean by
the term "unbalanced"?
2
Q. If your meal is heavy in fat, saturated fat and low in
3 fibre and high in sodium and sugar, does it make the rest
of your diet harder to balance?
4 A. I thought we already established that. I mean,
clearly -----
5
Q. Yes.
6
MR. JUSTICE BELL: Whichever way it goes, the more extreme your
7 diet is, the more balancing you have to do elsewhere?
A. Absolutely, yes.
8
MS. STEEL: And also the larger the portion -----
9
MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am sorry, I have fallen into what may be a
10 trap. The more extreme, not your diet, the more extreme
your particular meal is, the more balancing you have to
11 do?
A. Again, if you choose a meal which uses up your ration
12 for fat, for saturated fat, that has got to 70 or 80 per
cent of that in one meal, then, clearly, it is going to be
13 rather more difficult. I do not see that there is any
argument or dispute about that.
14
MS. STEEL: The larger the portions that people eat when, for
15 example, they come to McDonald's, the harder it is going
to be for them to balance their diet again?
16 A. Well, again ---
17 Q. If the larger portion -----
A. -- I think we are only going round in circles here.
18 We have not got a problem; we are all agreed.
19 Q. You want to say "yes" to that then?
A. Yes, of course. Of course.
20
Q. Right, thank you. So the more high fat and the more low
21 fibre products you eat in the day, you have agreed that
the more careful you have to be to balance your diet for
22 the rest of the day. In your experience -----
A. It does not matter whether it is McDonald's or
23 anything else, it is an arithmetic fact of life.
24 Q. In your experience, the sort of person who eats hamburgers
every day, are they the sort of people who usually take
25 great care to balance their diet and eat healthily for the
rest of the day?
26 A. We, I do not any people who eat hamburgers every day.
27 Q. You do not?
A. No.
28
Q. We have had some in the witness box, I think?
29 A. Well, maybe.
30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You do not know that you know of anyone who
eats hamburgers every day?
