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1 current British diet, the levels for monounsaturated and
polyunsaturated fat are about what they have recommended
2 here. So basically in my view what they are saying is
that any reduction in saturated fat should not be
3 accompanied by an increase in the other types of fat, and
the effect of that then would be to bring down the total
4 amount of fat. If you reduce saturated fat and do not
change the others, then the recommendations for saturated
5 fat and total fat would be achieved.
6 MR. MORRIS: Could I ask for one clarification?
7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment.
8 MR. MORRIS: What you said before about the 4.5 per cent and
6 per cent scale?
9 A. No, it was millijules per hundred grammes
concentration of cholesterol in the blood.
10
Q. Right. On point 2 in the recommendations that 6 per cent
11 there that is recommended, is that equivalent to what you
were saying before?
12 A. No, that is quite different. This is referring to
polyunsaturated fat. I was referring to the concentration
13 of cholesterol in the blood and I was talking about the
average for the whole country.
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MR. RAMPTON: Cancer comes next, Professor Wheelock?
15 A. Yes.
16 Q. Will you, please, forgive me if I do not take you through
the text of this for this reason and this reason alone.
17 Next week we shall be calling Dr. Sidney Arnott who has
done this work. I do not want to repeat ourselves.
18 A. Yes.
19 Q. All I ask you to notice is the section in the paragraph
headings. The panel looked at "geographical variations in
20 cancer incidence". It looked at "animal studies", it
looked at epidemiology for breast cancer, colon cancer,
21 and cancer and serum cholesterol and prostatic cancer. It
looked at dietary fat and aetiology of cancer -- aetiology
22 means, does it -- you tell us what it means?
A. Basically, the causes.
23
Q. The passage reads: "A number of mechanisms whereby fat
24 could be involved in cancer promotion has been suggested".
25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Where are you now?
26 MR. RAMPTON: At 3.5.5. at the top of page 52, my Lord.
27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
28 MR. RAMPTON: I will read it again: "A number of mechanisms
whereby fat could be involved in cancer promotion has been
29 suggested. Hormones, particularly oestrogens, are known
to be important promoters of both animal and human breast
30 cancer but there are conflicting reports on the effect of
fat on circulating levels of oestrogen, other female sex
