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1 investigation in this paper is that chronic degenerative
2 diseases are prevented by an aggregate effect of nutrients
3 and nutrient intake amounts that are commonly supplied by
4 foods of plant origin. The breadth and consistency of
5 evidence of this hypothesis was investigated with multiple
6 intake biomarker disease associations which were
7 appropriately adjusted. There appears to be no threshold
8 of plant food enrichment or minimisation of fat intake
9 beyond which further disease prevention does not occur."
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11 "These findings suggest that even small intakes of foods
12 of animal origin are associated with significant increases
13 in plasma cholesterol concentrations, which are associated
14 in turn with significant increases in chronic degenerative
15 disease mortality rates". It seems to be the American
16 Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1994.
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Who are the authors?
19 A. It is Colin Campbell and Chen Junshi, J-U-N-S-H-I.
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21 MR. MORRIS: That is very up-to-date.
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What date is it?
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25 THE WITNESS: It is 1994.
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27 MR. MORRIS: This may have been published then but may have
28 been known earlier. Can I just ask the question?
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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32 MR. MORRIS: Now that we actually have that survey directly
33 referred to, the point I am making is that that is an
34 example where the population study would have an advantage
35 in that respect over, for example, the very well-run
36 nurses' study, that they were able to look at very low
37 levels of fat intake and compare them, yes?
38 A. Sorry, can you repeat that? I was actually trying to
39 see how they organised their study.
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I suggest you do is just take a moment
42 or two to look at that before Mr. Morris asks the question
43 again.
44 A. In fact, all we have is the introduction in which they
45 talk about the hypothesis, but they do not talk about the
46 methodology or how it was carried out because the print
47 ends at that point. So we have no means of knowing how it
48 was conducted.
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Professor Campbell is one of your Civil
51 Evidence Act witnesses?
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53 MR. MORRIS: Yes. We will try to get the full study as soon as
54 possible. Have you heard of this study at all?
55 A. I have not, no, only in the sense that it was referred
56 to in an article by Willett in Nature, but that was in
57 1989. This has only been published -- one wonders, has it
58 been published in some other form elsewhere?
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You do not have a copy of the Willett
