Day 298 - 11 Nov 96 - Page 33


     
     1        her view, the actual target that would benefit people's
     2        health would be nearer the 15 to 30 percent maximum as
     3        recommended by the World Health Organisation.
     4
     5        She went on to say that she would recommend going towards
     6        the lower limit of 15 percent if you wanted to prevent
     7        people dying from preventable diseases, including heart
     8        disease and stroke and some types of cancer, which she
     9        included in that bowel, breast and other cancers.  Page 5,
    10        line 55.
    11
    12        She went on to refer to the NACNE report, and actually
    13        there are two references in the transcript on page 7, lines
    14        26 and 29, where it says it was published in September
    15        1993, and it should actually be September 1983.  You may
    16        remember that, anyway.
    17
    18   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Thank you.
    19
    20   MS. STEEL:   The NACNE report had a summary of long-term
    21        proposals derived from expert committees, which was 30
    22        percent for total fat intake or fat intake...  I think
    23        these were proposals that they were aiming for.  The fat
    24        intake should be on average 30 percent of the total energy
    25        intake, that saturated fatty acid intake should be on
    26        average 10 percent of the total energy intake and that
    27        average sucrose intake should be reduced to 20 kilograms
    28        per head per year, and in calculating the sucrose content
    29        of snacks it should be taken as distinct from total sucrose
    30        in the diet and there should be a lower value of 10
    31        kilograms per head per year for that.  Fibre intake should
    32        be increased on average to 30 grams from 20 grams per head
    33        per day and that the increase should come mainly from
    34        increased consumption of whole grain cereals, and an
    35        increase in vegetable and fruit consumption should also be
    36        advocated, and that it would be desirable if salt intake on
    37        average fell by three grams per head per day.  Protein
    38        intake should not be altered but a greater proportion of
    39        vegetable protein was appropriate.
    40
    41        The point about these recommendations is that this report
    42        was published in 1983, so these were recommendations in
    43        force throughout the 1980s, and so McDonald's, if they were
    44        remotely interested, should have known about these
    45        recommendations and could have done something a long time
    46        before to improve their food.  The NACNE report is all on
    47        page 7 from about line 36 onwards.
    48
    49        In fact, Miss Brophy actually said these were the
    50        recommendations throughout the '80s, that they were worked
    51        with in order to promote healthy eating at every level,
    52        that anybody promoting dietary advice at the time would
    53        have looked at the NACNE guidelines to implement a healthy
    54        diet.  Page 8, line 1.
    55
    56        Going back to the figures which Miss Brophy had calculated,
    57        or obtained, from the McDonald's good food nutrition guide,
    58        she said that the sodium content of the McDonald's meal
    59        combination number one, which you may remember was 1,488
    60        milligrams, that is close to the maximum recommended by the

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