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     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think you had better.  It is just that
     2        experience tells one that abstracts may be a totally
     3        accurate reflection of what then appears in the text or
     4        they may not.  But read the abstract out.
     5
     6   MR. MORRIS:  Just to give a bit of a broad picture.
     7
     8   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can you make photocopies of it overnight?
     9
    10   MR. MORRIS:  OK.
    11
    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If you are making the point that when we get
    13        to the nurses the variation in their fat intake either was
    14        not very great or even the lowest percentage was quite
    15        high, you see what I mean?
    16
    17   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
    18
    19   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Then I see the point, and it is important
    20        that you have the full text of any survey where the fat
    21        percentages were distinctly low.
    22
    23   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  I do not know, it might be a very long
    24        survey.
    25
    26   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Read the extract.
    27
    28   MR. MORRIS:  "A comprehensive ecologic survey of dietary
    29        lifestyle and mortality characteristics of 65 counties in
    30        rural China", I cannot read the next word, "showed that
    31        diets are substantially richer in foods of plant origin
    32        when compared with diets consumed in the more
    33        industrialised Western societies. The mean intakes of
    34        animal protein about 1/10th of the mean intake in the
    35        United States as energy per cent; total fat and dietary
    36        fibre reflected a substantial preference for foods of
    37        plant origin.  The mean plasma cholesterol concentration",
    38        I cannot read the figures.
    39
    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can I make a suggestion?  What I suggest is
    41        hand it up so that Dr. Arnott can read it.
    42
    43   MR. MORRIS:  I am only making a small point.  (Handed to the
    44        witness).
    45
    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Dr. Arnott, can you read the abstract out
    47        loud so we can all hear it?
    48        A.  "A comprehensive ecologic survey of dietary, lifestyle
    49        and mortality characteristics of 65 counties in rural
    50        China showed that diets are substantially richer in foods 
    51        of plant origin when compared with diets consumed in the 
    52        more industrialised Western societies.  Mean intakes of 
    53        animal protein (about 1/10th of the mean intake in the
    54        United States as energy per cent) total fat (4.5 per cent
    55        of energy) and dietary fibre (33.3 grammes per" -- I am
    56        not sure whether they mean decilitire, possibly -- close
    57        brackets "reflected a substantial preference for foods of
    58        plant origin.  Mean plasma cholesterol concentration at
    59        3.23 to 3.49 millimoles per litre corresponds to this
    60        dietary lifestyle.  The principal hypothesis under

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