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1 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think you had better. It is just that
2 experience tells one that abstracts may be a totally
3 accurate reflection of what then appears in the text or
4 they may not. But read the abstract out.
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6 MR. MORRIS: Just to give a bit of a broad picture.
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can you make photocopies of it overnight?
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10 MR. MORRIS: OK.
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12 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If you are making the point that when we get
13 to the nurses the variation in their fat intake either was
14 not very great or even the lowest percentage was quite
15 high, you see what I mean?
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17 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Then I see the point, and it is important
20 that you have the full text of any survey where the fat
21 percentages were distinctly low.
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23 MR. MORRIS: Yes. I do not know, it might be a very long
24 survey.
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Read the extract.
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28 MR. MORRIS: "A comprehensive ecologic survey of dietary
29 lifestyle and mortality characteristics of 65 counties in
30 rural China", I cannot read the next word, "showed that
31 diets are substantially richer in foods of plant origin
32 when compared with diets consumed in the more
33 industrialised Western societies. The mean intakes of
34 animal protein about 1/10th of the mean intake in the
35 United States as energy per cent; total fat and dietary
36 fibre reflected a substantial preference for foods of
37 plant origin. The mean plasma cholesterol concentration",
38 I cannot read the figures.
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40 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can I make a suggestion? What I suggest is
41 hand it up so that Dr. Arnott can read it.
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43 MR. MORRIS: I am only making a small point. (Handed to the
44 witness).
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Dr. Arnott, can you read the abstract out
47 loud so we can all hear it?
48 A. "A comprehensive ecologic survey of dietary, lifestyle
49 and mortality characteristics of 65 counties in rural
50 China showed that diets are substantially richer in foods
51 of plant origin when compared with diets consumed in the
52 more industrialised Western societies. Mean intakes of
53 animal protein (about 1/10th of the mean intake in the
54 United States as energy per cent) total fat (4.5 per cent
55 of energy) and dietary fibre (33.3 grammes per" -- I am
56 not sure whether they mean decilitire, possibly -- close
57 brackets "reflected a substantial preference for foods of
58 plant origin. Mean plasma cholesterol concentration at
59 3.23 to 3.49 millimoles per litre corresponds to this
60 dietary lifestyle. The principal hypothesis under
