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     1        keep sight of your daily intake?
     2        A.  Yes.
     3
     4   Q.   It would be sensible?
     5        A.  I mean, normally, one gives advice on slightly
     6        different terms, not to look at these figures and ask:  Am
     7        I meeting this or that criteria?  But to encourage a
     8        healthier diet, which means encouraging the consumption of
     9        certain types of foods indicated in that plate diagram we
    10        saw a little earlier.
    11
    12        Normally, my encouragement is to simply follow government
    13        guidelines and say more fruits and vegetables, more
    14        complex carbohydrates and so forth.  If, however, one
    15        wants to work on the basis of meeting dietary reference
    16        values for all the different nutrients, and so on, then
    17        I am very sympathetic to the goal to keep sight of your
    18        daily intake.  That is a wonderful idea.
    19
    20   MR. MORRIS:  No further questions.
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Thank you, Dr. Lobstein.  Have we got anyone
    23        to give evidence tomorrow?
    24
    25   MR. RAMPTON:  We have not and did not expect to have.
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Have you anyone?
    28
    29   MR. MORRIS:  No.  We were expecting Dr. Lobstein to continue
    30        tomorrow.  That is a bonus for us.  Richard Brown cannot
    31        come tomorrow.
    32
    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  We will resume on Monday then with
    34        Dr. Barnard.  When is Dr. Barnard coming, do you know?
    35
    36   MS. STEEL:   He is arriving on Saturday.
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  There is something I want to say in relation
    39        to that then.  Do you have your copy of the draft amended
    40        statement of claim, the one you were going to take advice
    41        before we heard argument as to whether McDonald's should
    42        have leave to amend their statement of claim in relation
    43        to meanings?  If you look at page 13, it really relates in
    44        part to something of what I said when Professor Crawford
    45        was giving his evidence.  We have not argued this yet
    46        because you wanted to take advice about it.  That means we
    47        will not be arguing it before you call Dr. Barnard because
    48        we want to get on with him straightaway on Monday
    49        morning.
    50 
    51        I am not prejudging in any way what my decision will be, 
    52        but that means the only safe basis to work on, when you 
    53        are calling Dr. Barnard, is that you work on the basis
    54        that the statement of claim has in it everything which has
    55        red on it at the top of page 13, do you understand?  Both
    56        the bit which is crossed out in red and the proposed
    57        substitution which is underlined in red?  In other words,
    58        work on the basis that McDonald's are saying the leaflet
    59        means that they sell meals which cause cancer of the
    60        breast and bowel and heart disease in their customers.  Do

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