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1 Medicine goes to exactly that point and describes how
2 individuals can be helped to make precisely the dietary
3 changes that we are talking about, that is, reducing
4 dietary fat.
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6 In the United States, we are far ahead on something like
7 cigarettes where a cigarette package has a warning on it
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10 Q. We have that here as well.
11 A. Yes, a person may -- by "ahead" I mean ahead of where
12 we are with dietary information, not ahead of where
13 England is; certainly not -- so that every smoker may know
14 that tobacco is associated with cancer. They may or may
15 not take advantage of that information. Regrettably, the
16 majority of American women at least in 1981 had absolutely
17 no idea that changing their diet might be of benefit from
18 the standpoint of breast cancer. That was very alarming
19 to me as a physician, I would say.
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21 MR. MORRIS: Are there any other documents which you gave us
22 that you can remember that you wanted to refer to?
23 A. I think we have gone through most of them. I
24 have brought you a handful of documents of this type that
25 simply showed that in respectable authorities in America
26 that the association between dietary fat and breast cancer
27 and colon cancer has been well accepted for quite a number
28 of years, and is a matter of ongoing investigation but,
29 nonetheless, the causal nature of that is commonly
30 accepted and has led to public information documents.
31 Whether there are a few more of those that you might want
32 to go through, let me leave that to you, but those are the
33 only things I wanted to mention.
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35 Q. There are a couple of more things I want to refer to. The
36 "Diet, Nutrition and Cancer" from the National Academy of
37 Sciences -- was there anything in that you wanted to refer
38 to?
39 A. There may be one brief paragraph that may be worth
40 mentioning, yes.
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Which one is that?
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44 MR. MORRIS: Do you have a copy?
45 A. I think I left it at my desk.
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47 MR. RAMPTON: Please borrow mine; enough delay.
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What is the state of play, so far as I am
50 concerned, with this?
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52 MR. MORRIS: I am not very clear myself. I think there were a
53 lot of copies floating around at one stage from both
54 sides.
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56 MR. RAMPTON: I believe we borrowed that one from Mr. Cannon
57 though I might be wrong about that.
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59 MS. STEEL: Actually I think we gave you that copy at the
60 beginning of Mr. Cannon's evidence.
