Day 266 - 20 Jun 96 - Page 23


     
     1   MR. MORRIS:  There was a mass of charts.
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     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is just part of the mass of evidence.
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     5   MR. MORRIS:  Can I just say we have a statement from Professor
     6        Crawford and Mr Riley is going to copy it now.
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     8   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Very well.
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    10   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Now, did you want to go to the meaning?
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    12   MS. STEEL:   The meaning, yes.
    13
    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let me just find that?
    15        A.   I do not have that in front of me.
    16
    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Someone will give you one.  (Same handed).
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    19   MS. STEEL:  If we just look at this, I think you probably dealt
    20        with the first part in your statement but the first part
    21        McDonald's food is, well:  "McDonald's food is very
    22        unhealthy because it is high in fat, sugar, animal
    23        products, and salt (sodium) and low in fibre, vitamins and
    24        minerals."  Would you agree with that?
    25        A.   Yes.
    26
    27   Q.   And would you also agree that eating that type of food may
    28        well make your diet high in fat, sugar, animal products,
    29        salt and low in fibre, vitamins and minerals; would you
    30        agree with that?
    31        A.   Yes.
    32
    33   Q.   And if your diet is high in fat, sugar, animal products and
    34        salt and low in fibre, vitamins and minerals, would you
    35        agree that there is a very real risk that you will suffer
    36        cancer of the breast or bowel or heart disease as a result?
    37        A.   Yes, and do you want me to put that into context?
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    39   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Yes.  Just let me?
    40        A.   To explain what I mean by that is, in my job, advising
    41        people on diets and disease, that the current consensus in
    42        health promotion is to help people understand what the
    43        risks are and then they will make their own choices.  So in
    44        the course of talking about people's diets and, you know,
    45        whether they are healthy or unhealthy then, you know, I
    46        would say that if you have an unhealthy diet then you would
    47        have a very real risk that you would suffer from cancer of
    48        the breast or bowel or heart disease as a result.
    49
    50   Q.   Is that expected or would that be expected to affect just a
    51        few people or?
    52        A.   The diet in the United Kingdom has been published in 
    53        numerous reports by the Government, resulting from looking
    54        at the scientific research and populations etc.  Then, I do
    55        not think that if there was not a very real risk that
    56        somebody like me could have the job that I have.  I am
    57        employed in the NHS as part of the National Health Service
    58        to give people information, the health professionals
    59        information, on diet and disease, and I think that large
    60        numbers would obviously be affected because otherwise why

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