Day 032 - 06 Oct 94 - Page 15


     
     1        A.  That specifically refers to consumption from that
     2        particular lunch, does it not?
     3
     4   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
     5
     6   MR. MORRIS:  I will ask you to draw some conclusions in a
     7        minute overall.  If we go to page 14, 6.8:  "The
     8        distribution of energy intakes is given in figure 6.1.
     9        The main individual sources of energy in the diets of
    10        British school children were bread, chips, milk, biscuits,
    11        meat products, cakes and puddings, which together
    12        accounted for about half the energy intake."
    13
    14        If there is any other sections you want to refer us to,
    15        please do.  Then if you can draw some conclusions from
    16        these and the overall drift of the report.
    17        A.  Yes, I think the overall drift is what I would like to
    18        focus on, which was that at the time this report was
    19        published, which was several years after it was actually
    20        undertaken, it confirmed to many people that children were
    21        not eating as healthy a diet as they might.  They were
    22        certainly not getting an optimum diet.  There were pockets
    23        of children within that who might well be getting
    24        seriously inadequate diets with certain nutrients falling
    25        well below necessary levels, recommended levels; that
    26        those pockets of children, in order to find out if there
    27        were any particular target groups, tended to be children
    28        who went out for their lunch time meal away from the
    29        school, and children in lower social class categories --
    30        here they are referred to as social class 5.
    31
    32   Q.   While we are on page 14, there are sections 6.10 and 11
    33        about fats.  It may be worth -----
    34
    35   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  How many social classes are there in that
    36        register?
    37        A.  There is normally one to five, I believe that is the
    38        case.  It is the lowest.  It is usually on parental income
    39        levels.  These would be low income families, the lowest
    40        group.
    41
    42   MR. MORRIS:  On the 6.10 section:  "The distribution of fat
    43        intakes is given in figure 6.3.  About half of the fat in
    44        the diets of the children was obtained from milk, chips,
    45        meat products, biscuits, carcase meats, crisps and butter
    46        (table 8). The food making the single greatest
    47        contribution to fat intakes in the younger children was
    48        milk (12 per cent of fat intake) and that in older
    49        children was chips (11 per cent of fat intake)."   Then it
    50        talks about fats as a percentage of energy intakes.  There 
    51        is a chart showing, I presume, the average fat intake as a 
    52        proportion of energy, is that correct --- 
    53        A.  Yes.
    54
    55   Q.   -- for all the children.  Do those figures suggest
    56        anything to you?
    57        A.  Well, the sentence just after the table, the table
    58        referred to as "Fat as per cent of energy intakes", was
    59        the sort of table that we were interested in at the time
    60        this report came out.  Approximately a quarter to a third

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