Day 014 - 20 Jul 94 - Page 48


     
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         Q.   I am not sure my intervention was very helpful.
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         MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, it is for this reason:  It may help if
     3        I ask Professor Wheelock this further question:  Are you
              conscious of work which shows that in a population which
     4        has both a high intake of dietary fibre and a high intake
              of fat, nonetheless, the incidence of bowel cancer was
     5        low?
              A.  That is right, yes.  I am aware of at least one study
     6        where that occurred.
 
     7   Q.   I think it was a Finnish study?
              A.  That is right, yes.
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         Q.   My Lord, Dr. Arnott will tell us more about that next
     9        week; it is one of his references.  Can we then go on to
              the Panel's conclusion, so far as DRV is concerned, about
    10        fibre?  4.9 on page 67 at the bottom?
 
    11   MR. MORRIS:  4.9.
 
    12   MS. STEEL:   Could we have the name of that Finnish study?
 
    13   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, if Ms. Steel will give me a moment, I will
              find it.  Whether it is actually copied into Dr. Arnott's
    14        report or whether it is referred to in one of the other
              reports, I cannot possibly remember at the moment.  Could
    15        I leave this until later, my Lord?  Mr. Atkinson will find
              it and will give the reference at the end of the day.
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         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If Mr. Atkinson can find it before the end
    17        of  ---
 
    18   MR. RAMPTON:  At any time.
 
    19   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  -- Professor Wheelock's evidence-in-chief.
 
    20   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes.  It may have been referred to in one of the
              other papers that I cannot remember.  At the bottom of
    21        page 67, we see what the panel suggested is a DRV for
              dietary fibre 4.9.1:  "In the light of the above
    22        observations the Panel felt that there was a basis for
              DRVs for non-starch polysaccharide in the UK diet.
    23        Quantitatively the best evidence relates to bowel habit.
              Other factors may influence bowel habit, both dietary
    24        (such as resistant starches) and non dietary, but NSP is
              usually the most effective.  Then it goes on about stool
    25        weights.  I need not read that.
  
    26        At the end of that paragraph we see this:  "The Panel 
              proposed that adult diets should contain an average for 
    27        the population of 18 grammes a day (individual range 12 to
              24 grammes a day) non-starch polysaccharide from a variety
    28        of foods whose constituents contain it as a naturally
              integrated component.
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              This recommendation is based on data from adults and is
    30        not applicable to children.  There are no data on
              physiological effects of NSP in children."  Does that

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