Day 014 - 20 Jul 94 - Page 25
1 Q. For the population as a whole, as an average, saturated
fatty acids should not form more than, have I got it
2 right, 10 per cent of total energy intake?
A. That is right.
3
Q. And not more than 11 per cent of total food energy intake?
4 A. Yes, that is right.
5 Q. That being because one sees under the black line at the
bottom of the page, halfway down the page, protein and
6 alcohol consumption have been excluded from this table, so
far as the first figure is concerned, as sources of
7 energy?
A. Yes.
8
Q. Is that right?
9 A. Yes.
10 Q. With regard to total fat the percentages are respectively
33 and 35?
11 A. Yes.
12 Q. So far as this country is concerned, Professor Wheelock,
are you comfortable with those recommendations in regard
13 to the health of the nation?
A. Yes, I am because this type of exercise has been
14 undertaken many times by efficient bodies in different
countries and by committees set up by learned societies;
15 by and large, there is a remarkable degree of consensus on
the dietary recommendations that are put forward though,
16 obviously, there had been minor differences between one
and another.
17
Q. Then if you turn over the page, it is two pages, to page
18 (xxiii) we see table 1.5 -- you have to turn the book
round -- "Reference Nutrient Intakes for Minerals".
19 Professor Wheelock, am I right that this expresses not
what is the maximum recommended intake on a daily basis,
20 but what is for the population at large, as it were, a
minimum for bodily needs?
21 A. That is my understanding, bearing the complications
one has to come up against in arriving at these figures.
22
Q. If you look at the top of the page: Age, calcium,
23 phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, potassium, chloride, iron,
and so on; that is the list of minerals; in the left-hand
24 column there is the age group?
A. Yes.
25
Q. And then beneath each mineral is the amount of -- what are
26 those MMOL/Ds?
A. That is expressed on a molecular basis or atomic
27 basis.
28 Q. We see at the bottom of the page, the third footnote,
although it is No. 2, that one MMOL of sodium is equal to
29 23 milligrams?
A. That is right.
30
Q. Then if you look under "males" in the left-hand column, go
