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     2   MR. RAMPTON:  That is very generous.
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     4   MR. MORRIS:  You might as well take mine.
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     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, I would like you to keep hold of yours.
     7        Someone make a note of the pages and, if I do not have
     8        copies now, make sure I get a photocopy tomorrow of the
     9        pages referred to and the title page.
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    11   MR. MORRIS:  I think behind Geoffrey Cannon there may be -----
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    13   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Leave it there, Mr. Morris.  Tomorrow
    14        morning either give me a photocopy of the facing pages and
    15        such pages as Dr. Barnard refers to or, if it is somewhere
    16        else, give me the reference to that.
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    18   MR. MORRIS:  Do you want to take us to the pages?
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    20   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Read out what it is.
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    22   THE WITNESS:  If you do not mind, I have a copy at the desk.
    23        Can I step down and pick that up because I have
    24        highlighted a section?  That may save a little bit of
    25        time.
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    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  Give that copy back to Mr. Rampton.
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    29   THE WITNESS:  Sorry, I did not bring it with me.
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    31   MR. MORRIS:  Did you not bring it with you?
    32        A.  Sorry.  All right.
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    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Have you found it?
    35        A.  Yes, I think I have the portion that I had intended to
    36        draw the court's attention to.  On page 5 -----
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    38   MR. MORRIS:  For the record this is 1982, the report,, yes?
    39        A.  Yes, that is correct.
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    41   Q.   The national Research Council.
    42        A.  Yes.  This is a book called "Diet, Nutrition and
    43        Cancer" from the National Research Council which is an
    44        eminent research body in the United States.  In 1982,
    45        because there was very substantial evidence implicating a
    46        range of dietary factors in the causation of cancer, the
    47        National Research Council convened a committee to
    48        summarise that information, particularly for the attention
    49        of policy makers in the United States, but also to provide
    50        a valuable document for researchers and to interested 
    51        members of the public. 
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    53        I would just like to quote a summary paragraph very
    54        briefly on page 5 in the section on "Fats".
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    56        The paragraph states:  "The committee concluded that of
    57        all the dietary components it studied, the combined
    58        epidemiological and experimental evidence is most
    59        suggestive for a causal relationship between fat intake
    60        and the occurrence of cancer.  Both epidemiological

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