Day 298 - 11 Nov 96 - Page 37
1 She said that similar calculations could also be made which
2 showed that a typical McDonald's meal was also lacking in
3 fibre, fresh fruit and vegetables and certain vitamins.
4 That was page 9, line 5.
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6 There was reference to the World Health Organisation
7 report, page 112, which stated that 400 grams of fruit and
8 vegetables is the lower limit recommended per day, and that
9 for the purposes of that recommendation, fruit and
10 vegetables did not include potatos, other tubers or
11 cassava; they were included in the carbohydrate
12 recommendations. That was page 10, line 7.
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14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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16 MS. STEEL: It has just occurred to me we have not had the
17 break for the stenographer. (Pause)
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Would you like to have it now? I think we
20 have got to have it some time.
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22 MS. STEEL: Yes, okay.
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24 (Short Adjournment)
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26 MS. STEEL: Miss Brophy said that most people involved in
27 health education know that a typical McDonald's meal does
28 not comply with the current healthy eating recommendations
29 and that is why the literature states that the two golden
30 rules for healthy eating are variety and moderation, which
31 she said were vague terms which do not help the average
32 person choose a health promoting diet. That was on page
33 13, line 23.
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35 She said that in her experience it was very difficult to
36 get people to change their way of eating, and to give clear
37 advice to people you needed to define for them what they
38 should and should not be eating and what they should be
39 avoiding, and that she would put McDonald's food in the
40 category of food that they should be avoiding to have a
41 health promoting diet. That was on page 13, line 33.
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43 Related to that, on page 45 from line 6 onwards, she said
44 that if you were saying to somebody that it was
45 nutritionally okay to have a McDonald's meal, that as a
46 health educator that message was somehow inappropriate
47 because you wanted to get a total change in the style of
48 eating. There was also a problem that it was customising
49 taste buds to a high sugar and high sodium expectation,
50 which would encourage people to eat that type of food
51 generally or to add extra fat and salt to other meals.
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53 On page 51, from line 25 she went on to say that in her
54 experience as a dietician, that people who might consume
55 the hamburger, regular french fries and milkshake, would
56 then, as an afternoon snack, have a Mars Bar, which was
57 also high in fat. And in fact I think at that point
58 Mr. Rampton agreed with that.
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60 Miss Brophy then went on to say that it is theoretically or
