Day 266 - 20 Jun 96 - Page 23
1 MR. MORRIS: There was a mass of charts.
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is just part of the mass of evidence.
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5 MR. MORRIS: Can I just say we have a statement from Professor
6 Crawford and Mr Riley is going to copy it now.
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Very well.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Now, did you want to go to the meaning?
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12 MS. STEEL: The meaning, yes.
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14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let me just find that?
15 A. I do not have that in front of me.
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Someone will give you one. (Same handed).
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19 MS. STEEL: If we just look at this, I think you probably dealt
20 with the first part in your statement but the first part
21 McDonald's food is, well: "McDonald's food is very
22 unhealthy because it is high in fat, sugar, animal
23 products, and salt (sodium) and low in fibre, vitamins and
24 minerals." Would you agree with that?
25 A. Yes.
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27 Q. And would you also agree that eating that type of food may
28 well make your diet high in fat, sugar, animal products,
29 salt and low in fibre, vitamins and minerals; would you
30 agree with that?
31 A. Yes.
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33 Q. And if your diet is high in fat, sugar, animal products and
34 salt and low in fibre, vitamins and minerals, would you
35 agree that there is a very real risk that you will suffer
36 cancer of the breast or bowel or heart disease as a result?
37 A. Yes, and do you want me to put that into context?
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. Just let me?
40 A. To explain what I mean by that is, in my job, advising
41 people on diets and disease, that the current consensus in
42 health promotion is to help people understand what the
43 risks are and then they will make their own choices. So in
44 the course of talking about people's diets and, you know,
45 whether they are healthy or unhealthy then, you know, I
46 would say that if you have an unhealthy diet then you would
47 have a very real risk that you would suffer from cancer of
48 the breast or bowel or heart disease as a result.
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50 Q. Is that expected or would that be expected to affect just a
51 few people or?
52 A. The diet in the United Kingdom has been published in
53 numerous reports by the Government, resulting from looking
54 at the scientific research and populations etc. Then, I do
55 not think that if there was not a very real risk that
56 somebody like me could have the job that I have. I am
57 employed in the NHS as part of the National Health Service
58 to give people information, the health professionals
59 information, on diet and disease, and I think that large
60 numbers would obviously be affected because otherwise why
