Day 298 - 11 Nov 96 - Page 38


     
     1        it might theoretically be possible to do what Mr. Rampton
     2        was suggesting, which was eating a McDonald's meal and then
     3        balancing the rest of the diet, but in practice nobody
     4        would actually do that.  And she said:  I think it would be
     5        almost unheard of, people do not eat a McDonald's meal and
     6        then go away and have a fruit salad and have a meal of
     7        pasta with a low fat sauce, it is just not the way that
     8        people eat.  That was on -- I have already given the
     9        reference for that.
    10
    11        I think this is the last point in relation to McDonald's
    12        food in particular and then I will go on to what she said
    13        about diet and health in general.  I think this was in
    14        re-examination, she said looking at meal combination one,
    15        which contains 64.4 grams of fat, for a male aged 19 to 50,
    16        daily fat intake should be no more than 85 grams.  And
    17        I think those were the figures worked out from the grey
    18        book.  So in one McDonald's meal, a male between the ages
    19        of 19 to 50 would get three-quarters of his maximum daily
    20        recommended intake of fat.
    21
    22        That maximum is obviously the upper end of the
    23        recommendations, the 30 to 35 percent, rather than the 15
    24        to 20 percent which Miss Brophy and the World Health
    25        Organisation think are going to be far more beneficial in
    26        terms of preventing degenerative diseases.
    27
    28        She said, moving on to the diet and health in general, that
    29        a poor diet that is low in fibre, fresh fruit and
    30        vegetables and high in fat and animal products has been
    31        scientifically linked with some cancers, particularly bowel
    32        cancer and heart disease, and that it had been estimated
    33        that 30 to 70 percent of all cancers were linked to diet
    34        and that certain cancers, such as bowel and breast and
    35        prostate, were clearly diet related.  That was a statement
    36        made by Professor Doll in 1990 Symposium on Diet and
    37        Cancer.  That was page 10 from line 45 onwards.
    38        She also went on to say that the consensus of the health
    39        education authority in the UK is around 35 percent of
    40        cancers are diet related.
    41
    42        Miss Brophy made reference to the Cancer Education
    43        Coordinating Group "Avoiding Cancer" leaflet about cutting
    44        done on fatty acids, about the recommendations in that
    45        leaflet to cut down on fatty acids and eat more fibre to
    46        cut down on the risk of cancer.  That document is document
    47        59 on the Defendants' original list of documents.
    48        She also said in relation to this document on page 55, line
    49        40, that that was the type of literature that was
    50        distributed in NHS outlets.
    51
    52        Just in relation to that leaflet, Mr. Rampton did say, when
    53        I brought this up and I was asking her to get out the
    54        document, and I read out sections of that leaflet about a
    55        sensible diet can reduce this risk, and the leaflet also
    56        states that the foods containing fibre may also protect
    57        against cancer of the bowel, Mr. Rampton interrupted and
    58        said:  So far as this witness is concerned I see nothing
    59        controversial in this part of her statement at all and
    60        there is no need to confirm the accuracy of the report

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