Day 266 - 20 Jun 96 - Page 51


     
     1   MR. RAMPTON:  I do not think I can remember what I was going to
     2        ask.
     3
     4   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think what were you were, if I may surmise,
     5        hoping that you would be able to persuade Mrs. Brophy that
     6        there was enough slack there to stay healthy.
     7
     8   MR. RAMPTON:   That is, if I may say so, one does not like to
     9        suck up to Judges but Mrs. Brophy, that if I may say so is
    10        very nicely put.  If you had one of these meals once or
    11        twice a week there is plenty of slack, is there not, for
    12        even another one of those meals in a  day even assuming
    13        that is a realistic scenario which I do not propose it is?
    14        A.   Can you ask the question?
    15
    16   Q.   Sorry. I will start again.  I would eat one of those meals
    17        a day; take the second one, or the first.  I do not mind.
    18        Take the second one.  I could eat the second meal every day
    19        of my life, and I would still have room, if you would look
    20        at the kilocalorie quantity, that meal provides 707
    21        calories does it not, according to your second meal; meal
    22        number 2, combination number 2, 707 calories which is about
    23        a third of the energy requirement for the sort of man that
    24        I am talking about, the 20 year old?
    25        A.   I think my experience as a dietitian would suggest
    26        that people that actually eat like that, they might consume
    27        the hamburger, regular French fries and milk and then, for
    28        an afternoon snack, they might have a Mars Bar which is
    29        also high in fat.
    30
    31   Q.   Yes, I know that?
    32        A.   It is, I think, you know, it might be theoretically
    33        possible to do what you are suggesting, but in practice
    34        nobody would actually do that.   Nobody would eat a
    35        McDonald's meal.  I mean, if you could find me a member of
    36        the population that does that I would be very interested.
    37        I think it would be almost unheard of.  People would not
    38        eat a McDonald's meal and then go away and have a fruit
    39        salad and have a high pasta with, you know, a low fat sauce
    40        on it.  It is not the way people eat.
    41
    42   Q.   But bear with me.  Please, let me follow through my
    43        reasoning and see if you agree.  Take the second meal.  You
    44        could eat that second meal three times a day, if you could
    45        face it, if you are the twenty year old man with an average
    46        physical activity, weighing under 12 stone.  You could eat
    47        it three times a day and you exceed neither your
    48        recommended fat level and you would get about your energy
    49        requirement for that day, would you not?
    50        A.   You would probably only have to eat in addition, say
    51        something quite moderate and healthy that most people would
    52        think of, say something like a cheese sandwich bought from 
    53        Marks and Spencers plus, you know, a Mars Bar which is
    54        probably the way that, you know, this man you are talking
    55        about might eat.  And in that instance you would very
    56        easily push the fat proportions of your diet above the
    57        Government's recommended levels.
    58
    59   Q.   If the individual, having had his McDonald's meal, then
    60        goes away and has a huge pile of Mars Bars or, I do not

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