Day 015 - 21 Jul 94 - Page 24
1 not getting enough energy certainly for certain sections
of the population, so let us not lose sight of the fact
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3 MS. STEEL: What I am trying to get out ------
4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, you must let him finish and then you ask
your next question.
5 A. Nutrition is a complicated business. It is not just a
matter of making sure that we do not eat too much
6 saturated fat; we have to make sure that we have all the
requirements for all these other things. You know, at a
7 guess, we have at least 40 or 50 different nutrients for
which the requirements must be fulfilled.
8
Now, the more we narrow down the food we eat to two,
9 three, or four, five foods, then the greater the chances
are that we are not going to hit the requirements we need
10 in order to function effectively. So, basically, what
I am saying is that it is important to eat a range of
11 foods, you know, milk, meat, butter, fresh fruit,
vegetables, rice, bread, all the rest of it. It is a
12 matter of having a proper balance in the diet.
13 Q. What I am trying to get at is when you are talking about
the type of products supplied by McDonald's playing a
14 critical part in the diet, you are talking about the
basic, initial ingredients, the potatoes. You are not
15 talking about the added fat, the sugar and the salt?
A. No. I am talking about the actual food that is bought
16 in McDonald's, the composition of which is reported in the
literature which is freely available for anybody to pick
17 up in a restaurant and read and study for themselves and
use to construct a healthy diet themselves.
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Q. What kind of critical part does the added fat, sodium and
19 salt play in the diet -- sorry, sodium and sugar?
A. Say that again because I do not quite understand what
20 you are getting at.
21 Q. What kind of critical part does the added fat, sodium and
sugar play in the diet?
22 A. There is nothing particularly special about that. It
is just another component in the diet. They make a
23 contribution to the final values that one would calculate
if one was interested in doing that.
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I mean, I cannot understand why you think there is any
25 difference between the fact that some fat is added during
manufacturing and the fact that there is some fat present
26 in meat, the fact that there is fat present in milk. I
mean, what is the difference? You tell me. I do not
27 understand the difference.
28 Q. Let us take potatoes: What does McDonald's do to
potatoes?
29 A. It makes french fries out of them.
30 Q. How does it do that?
A. It puts them in some frying oil.
