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1 the percentage that a meal would give of the vitamins and
2 minerals, selected ones, but they have not indicated the
3 amount of fat in the terms of how that meets the maximum
4 recommended for the day.
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: They have also given the percentage of the
7 average energy requirement?
8 A. Yes.
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10 Q. Without -----
11 A. That almost defines the case but it helps to look at
12 the fat as well. If we took that first one, in fact,
13 which is the easiest one to take, 64.4 grammes fat is
14 given at the top as the quantity in that meal. Taking the
15 recommended amounts of 35 per cent of a child's calories
16 coming from fat, that would give approximately 78 grammes
17 of fat for a child's maximum daily intake. It is not
18 clear from that table, but is, if taking a child at 2,000
19 calories, 35 per cent of those calories would translate
20 into 78 grammes of fat, so the child should not eat more
21 than 78 grammes of fat in a day on average. In this meal
22 it is as provided 64.4.
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24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Someone told me -- I have forgotten -- was
25 it nine kilocalories per one gramme of fat?
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27 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, yes. That is common ground. Nine
28 kilocalories per gramme of fat.
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30 THE WITNESS: Yes, so in their 2,000 calories for the day they
31 would -- at 35 per cent, 700 calories from fat would be
32 the maximum, which divided by nine is, I think, 77.77, 78
33 grammes roughly of fat would be their recommended maximum
34 daily intake. Are you with me?
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am not sure I am because you would
37 need .....
38 A. Ignoring the table for the moment, taking the previous
39 evidence.
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41 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I make it about 29 per cent of 2,000.
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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45 THE WITNESS: Yes, I would agree with that.
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You spell out the way you do your sum and
48 then if Mr. Rampton has done it a different way, perhaps
49 he could tell me?
50 A. OK, let me explain. I have start at the other end and
51 asked: If a child is to eat 2,000 calories, what is the
52 maximum amount of fat he should consume? And the answer
53 would be, 35 per cent of that 2,000 calories is 700
54 calories and that converted into fat divided by nine gives
55 you 78 grammes of fat. So, 78 grammes of fat would be
56 their maximum for the day as recommended in the
57 nutritional guidelines.
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59 Now, here they are getting 64.4 grammes of fat which is
60 over 80 per cent of their daily maximum recommended
