Day 298 - 11 Nov 96 - Page 37


     
     1        She said that similar calculations could also be made which
     2        showed that a typical McDonald's meal was also lacking in
     3        fibre, fresh fruit and vegetables and certain vitamins.
     4        That was page 9, line 5.
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     6        There was reference to the World Health Organisation
     7        report, page 112, which stated that 400 grams of fruit and
     8        vegetables is the lower limit recommended per day, and that
     9        for the purposes of that recommendation, fruit and
    10        vegetables did not include potatos, other tubers or
    11        cassava; they were included in the carbohydrate
    12        recommendations.  That was page 10, line 7.
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    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Yes.
    15
    16   MS. STEEL:   It has just occurred to me we have not had the
    17        break for the stenographer.  (Pause)
    18
    19   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Would you like to have it now?  I think we
    20        have got to have it some time.
    21
    22   MS. STEEL:   Yes, okay.
    23
    24                         (Short Adjournment)
    25
    26   MS. STEEL:   Miss Brophy said that most people involved in
    27        health education know that a typical McDonald's meal does
    28        not comply with the current healthy eating recommendations
    29        and that is why the literature states that the two golden
    30        rules for healthy eating are variety and moderation, which
    31        she said were vague terms which do not help the average
    32        person choose a health promoting diet.  That was on page
    33        13, line 23.
    34
    35        She said that in her experience it was very difficult to
    36        get people to change their way of eating, and to give clear
    37        advice to people you needed to define for them what they
    38        should and should not be eating and what they should be
    39        avoiding, and that she would put McDonald's food in the
    40        category of food that they should be avoiding to have a
    41        health promoting diet.  That was on page 13, line 33.
    42
    43        Related to that, on page 45 from line 6 onwards, she said
    44        that if you were saying to somebody that it was
    45        nutritionally okay to have a McDonald's meal, that as a
    46        health educator that message was somehow inappropriate
    47        because you wanted to get a total change in the style of
    48        eating.  There was also a problem that it was customising
    49        taste buds to a high sugar and high sodium expectation,
    50        which would encourage people to eat that type of food
    51        generally or to add extra fat and salt to other meals.
    52
    53        On page 51, from line 25 she went on to say that in her
    54        experience as a dietician, that people who might consume
    55        the hamburger, regular french fries and milkshake, would
    56        then, as an afternoon snack, have a Mars Bar, which was
    57        also high in fat.  And in fact I think at that point
    58        Mr. Rampton agreed with that.
    59
    60        Miss Brophy then went on to say that it is theoretically or

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