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1 terms of calories, is it not?
2 A. In terms of what matters to a person, can you define
3 what you mean by "matters".
4
5 Q. If he tries to regulate his diet so he has a proper
6 balance within it, enough vegetables, enough so and so,
7 not too much fat, what he needs to know is what percentage
8 of his total energy requirement is provided by the
9 particular item or the particular meal that he eats; that
10 is right, is it not?
11 A. What matters is that people can make informed food
12 choices.
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14 Q. Yes.
15 A. That they should be readily able to distinguish
16 between foods that are high-in-fat, specifically and
17 particularly foods that are high in saturated fat. I do
18 not know one ordinary person who sits down and plans their
19 food intake for the week. This is really a council of
20 perfection. I do know many, many people who are
21 desperately interested and desperately keen to improve
22 their diet by eating good food.
23
24 The only way they are going to be able to do that is by
25 knowing the difference between one food stuff and another,
26 when it comes down to which food shall I eat next, that is
27 the important part. You cannot take a grand overview of
28 the month or the year, or something like that. People do
29 not plan their diets like that. They plan it on an
30 individual food by food basis. That information,
31 I believe, would be very useful.
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33 Q. It is very widely known, is it not, among those who are
34 interested in the subject, and I stress those words (and
35 will stress them again in the course of this case), it is
36 very widely known by those who are interested in the
37 subject that one gramme of fat, whether it be saturated or
38 not, equals nine kilocalories of energy; that is right?
39 A. Yes.
40
41 Q. Is it very difficult to multiply nine by whatever number
42 of grammes you are given in a chart?
43 A. I do not find it particularly difficult, but it is not
44 something people take into account in their every day
45 lives.
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47 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, those are all the questions I have.
48
49 MS. STEEL: Is it easy for someone to divide the total calories
50 by whatever this figure for fat is that they have
51 multiplied by nine and work out the percentage of energy
52 they are getting from fat? Is it easy for them to do that
53 in their head while they are trying to choose a meal?
54 A. You will have to restate that.
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Start again.
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58 MS. STEEL: Mr. Rampton insinuated that it would be an easy
59 matter for someone who was interested to work out the
60 number of calories they were getting in a particular meal
