Day 298 - 11 Nov 96 - Page 04
1 vegetable and marine oils.
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3 In relation to McDonald's role in the diet, he did say on
4 page 16 that McDonald's meals do contain some important
5 nutrients but he went on to say that those same nutrients
6 can be obtained in other ways without the saturated fat
7 load and he appended his table, which you may remember
8 showed a different meal which had much higher levels of
9 vitamins and minerals and a much lower fat load.
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11 He said on page 26, line 17, that he stood by the evidence
12 that he had given on the last occasion when he was in
13 court, and he did not want to negate any of it or retract
14 it. I think that is worth bearing in mind when considering
15 the Plaintiffs' proposal that the evidence had got less
16 strong on diet and disease since 1994 when Dr. Arnott gave
17 evidence.
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19 Just in relation to Professor Crawford's comment about the
20 meaning that you have determined, he said that if we were
21 saying that McDonald's food is unhealthy because it is high
22 in fat and low in fibre, that they were two points -- well,
23 he basically said that he agreed that was true, and that he
24 agreed that diets that are high in fat and low in fibre are
25 the diets that contribute a real risk to heart disease, and
26 he specifically referred to cancer of the colon, which was
27 the one where he considered the evidence was the hardest.
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29 I don't know if this is particularly important, I am not
30 sure to what extent the Plaintiffs are going to rely on the
31 statement in the dietary reference values book and the
32 thing about it not being enough evidence for making a
33 recommendation to decrease fat intakes to prevent cancer,
34 just that Professor Crawford did say that there was not a
35 single -- there was not anybody on the committee who was an
36 expert in fat metabolism or in cancer and that it was...
37 I mean, the whole of the grey book was more of a
38 generalised thing about dietary recommendations rather than
39 specifically looking at cancer. Obviously, the British
40 government has not come back on that yet, has not yet made
41 its findings public. That was all on page 43.
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43 On page 49, he was referring to the Finnish study --
44 I think it was the Finnish study -- and he just said,
45 anyway, that fibre has always been considered as a
46 protective agent so far as colon cancer is concerned. That
47 was at line 41.
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49 I have not made a note of who this was, but on page 50 he
50 referred to, I think it might have been Doll, that had the
51 view that you could explain between 30 and 70 percent of
52 cancers to diet. That was around about line 47.
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54 Then on page 89, this was a reference to the World Health
55 Organisation report and it was put to him that certainly
56 about the optimum intake in relation to cancer must await
57 future research such as control trials, but in the meantime
58 international correlation analysis and other
59 epidemiological data indicates that fat intakes of less
60 than 30 percent of total energy - the transcript actually
