Day 032 - 06 Oct 94 - Page 39


     
     1        published October 1984, second edition February 1985,
     2        third edition October 1985.
     3
     4   MS. STEEL:   So if we look at the October 1985 one.
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     6   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, it is tab 5.
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     8   MS. STEEL:   Actually, this is the one that is extremely
     9        difficult to read in this volume.  I think we will be all
    10        right because the meal combinations look as though -----
    11
    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let us do our best.
    13
    14   MS. STEEL:  I suppose we could start by turning to page 13
    15        which is the McDonald's introduction to the tables.  It
    16        states there that these are some typical meal combinations
    17        at McDonald's.  Then if you want to turn over to the meals
    18        themselves and say what you think is wrong with them
    19        nutritionally?
    20        A.  Well, my main problem with these meals would be that
    21        if they were relied on for a substantial part of the diet,
    22        they would not be providing sufficient essential nutrients
    23         -- by which I mean the vitamins and minerals -- that we
    24        need for the amounts of fat that they do provide.  In
    25        other words, they are excessively fatty and salty.  I
    26        cannot comment on sugar as sugar figures are not given.
    27
    28   Q.   Is there anything else, I mean, in terms of the other
    29        nutrients?
    30        A.  Well, shall I make an example of one of the meals?  We
    31        can choose any one you like.
    32
    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do that.  I cannot find it now but somewhere
    34        you make the point about low in vitamins and minerals
    35        which is an aspect which has not really come into the case
    36        so far.  We have heard lots about whether fats, saturated
    37        fat, and sodium is higher than a sensible figure, but we
    38        have not really heard anything about low in vitamins and
    39        minerals.
    40        A.  OK.  I think what I am trying to reflect in an
    41        analysis of these meals is the notion of nutrient density
    42        which has a specific meaning in dietary terms, namely, the
    43        quantities of a particular nutrient per, say, 100
    44        calories, in other words, for the energy that is in that
    45        food; the point being, of course, that we eat a limited
    46        quantity of energy or need a limited quantity of energy
    47        each day, say, 2,000 calories for a child.
    48
    49        In that 2,000 calories, one would hope, that that child
    50        eats food containing at least their recommended daily 
    51        needs for various vitamins and minerals, and does not 
    52        exceed a recommended level of fat consumption which, by 
    53        I think the COMA Report you have had already, would be
    54        approximately 30 to 35 per cent of fat-- calories but from
    55        the fat.  So that the targets that one is aiming for is to
    56        eat no more than a certain quantity of fat or calories
    57        from that fat whilst getting sufficient of one's vitamins
    58        and minerals.
    59
    60        And McDonald's have given us in these meal combinations

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