Day 298 - 11 Nov 96 - Page 38
1 it might theoretically be possible to do what Mr. Rampton
2 was suggesting, which was eating a McDonald's meal and then
3 balancing the rest of the diet, but in practice nobody
4 would actually do that. And she said: I think it would be
5 almost unheard of, people do not eat a McDonald's meal and
6 then go away and have a fruit salad and have a meal of
7 pasta with a low fat sauce, it is just not the way that
8 people eat. That was on -- I have already given the
9 reference for that.
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11 I think this is the last point in relation to McDonald's
12 food in particular and then I will go on to what she said
13 about diet and health in general. I think this was in
14 re-examination, she said looking at meal combination one,
15 which contains 64.4 grams of fat, for a male aged 19 to 50,
16 daily fat intake should be no more than 85 grams. And
17 I think those were the figures worked out from the grey
18 book. So in one McDonald's meal, a male between the ages
19 of 19 to 50 would get three-quarters of his maximum daily
20 recommended intake of fat.
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22 That maximum is obviously the upper end of the
23 recommendations, the 30 to 35 percent, rather than the 15
24 to 20 percent which Miss Brophy and the World Health
25 Organisation think are going to be far more beneficial in
26 terms of preventing degenerative diseases.
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28 She said, moving on to the diet and health in general, that
29 a poor diet that is low in fibre, fresh fruit and
30 vegetables and high in fat and animal products has been
31 scientifically linked with some cancers, particularly bowel
32 cancer and heart disease, and that it had been estimated
33 that 30 to 70 percent of all cancers were linked to diet
34 and that certain cancers, such as bowel and breast and
35 prostate, were clearly diet related. That was a statement
36 made by Professor Doll in 1990 Symposium on Diet and
37 Cancer. That was page 10 from line 45 onwards.
38 She also went on to say that the consensus of the health
39 education authority in the UK is around 35 percent of
40 cancers are diet related.
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42 Miss Brophy made reference to the Cancer Education
43 Coordinating Group "Avoiding Cancer" leaflet about cutting
44 done on fatty acids, about the recommendations in that
45 leaflet to cut down on fatty acids and eat more fibre to
46 cut down on the risk of cancer. That document is document
47 59 on the Defendants' original list of documents.
48 She also said in relation to this document on page 55, line
49 40, that that was the type of literature that was
50 distributed in NHS outlets.
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52 Just in relation to that leaflet, Mr. Rampton did say, when
53 I brought this up and I was asking her to get out the
54 document, and I read out sections of that leaflet about a
55 sensible diet can reduce this risk, and the leaflet also
56 states that the foods containing fibre may also protect
57 against cancer of the bowel, Mr. Rampton interrupted and
58 said: So far as this witness is concerned I see nothing
59 controversial in this part of her statement at all and
60 there is no need to confirm the accuracy of the report
