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     1        A.  I think some of them might naturally be only 9 stone
              and a have; they might be a lot heavier.
     2
         Q.   You say: "However, the fact that 27 per cent of
     3        respondents are in the over-weight category suggests there
              is a need for the staff to be provided with advice on
     4        healthy eating. The data on alcohol, exercise and smoking
              indicates there is a need for advice on these aspects as
     5        well."
              A.  Yes.
     6
         Q.   So far as you are aware, and do not guess, was any action
     7        taken in consequence of that advice by you, do you know?
              A.  Yes, I know of at least one action which was the
     8        introduction of a component dealing with the healthy
              eating, healthy lifestyle into the training for people on
     9        the management track
 
    10   MR. RAMPTON: Thank you.  My Lord, those are the questions
              I have to ask in re-examination.
    11
         MS. STEEL:   Can we just bring up something that comes out of
    12        the paper that was read out?
 
    13   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  Do that and then if Mr. Rampton wants
              to come back again he can.
    14
                      Further Cross-examined by the Defendants
    15
         MS. STEEL:   You just referred to this paper about the
    16        nutritional implications of a meatless diet.
 
    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Orange 3A, tab 12.
 
    18   MS. STEEL:   Yes.  There re only two points I want to raise.
              First, I do not know whether you remember the last time
    19        when we were talking about the other study, we said that
              the authors of the study had said that there was not any
    20        -- the questionnaire was not satisfactory as a screening
              tool.  I said that we did not have any idea of what the
    21        questions were that led to people saying they were
              vegetarians or how that was decided they were.  If we just
    22        look at the very top of this new paper, the third line
              down says: "Some who people call themselves vegetarians do
    23        eat meat and fish occasionally."  So, obviously we do have
              to be very careful if we do not know what those questions
    24        were in that other study, that we do not jump to any
              conclusions about what people were in fact eating?
    25        A.  Oh, yes, I accept that.  But again I think it is
              important to understand that this latest paper by Sanders 
    26        and Reddy is a much more comprehensive one than the 
              individual study we were looking at last week.  This is a 
    27        very thorough -----
 
    28   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You mean the young women in -----
              A.  That is right.  That was simply a report on an
    29        individual study.  This is a thorough evaluation.  It is a
              scientific review, and so is an evaluation of a large
    30        number of studies which have been conducted in various
              parts of the world.

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