Day 016 - 22 Jul 94 - Page 13

     
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         MR. MORRIS:  I cannot find it in my papers.
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         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Should it go in 9 or 10?
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         MR. RAMPTON:  Your Lordship may have put the Finns in the wrong
     4        place.  The Finns should go as tab 25 because that is
              about cancer and the anaemic school girls should go at 9
     5        of Professor Wheelock.
              A.  It is not in here.  (Handed).
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         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think the problem was that instead of
     7        being handed up one of each, I was handed up two.  I did
              not realise.  You have it now, do you, Professor
     8        Wheelock?
              A.  Yes.
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         MS. STEEL:  You see the third from last line on the bottom of
    10        this abstract:  "The questionnaire did not prove
              satisfactory as a screening tool for risk of iron
         deficiency"?
              A.  Yes.
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         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I want to read the head note.
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         MS. STEEL:   If you look at the following page, page 148, under
    14        "methods", the last sentence in the second paragraph
              says:  "The questionnaire asked the children to describe
    15        their diet over the previous months".  Is not that exactly
              the sort of methodology that you have criticised that
    16        people cannot be relied on to remember accurately what
              they read on?
    17        A.  Yes, but may I also point out that each provided a
              thumb prick blood sample for analysis of haemoglobin,
    18        which would be information based on an analytical
              approach.
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         Q.   So that will tell us whether or not they are considered
    20        anaemic, according to these standards, but that does not
              tell us that they were vegetarians?
         A.  No, it does not but, irrespective of whether or not
              you would criticise this paper, clearly, it is indicating
    22        that there may be quite a serious problem out there for
              young girls who are switching to vegetarianism.  All I am
    23        saying is that this is a warning sign -- and, remember,
              this is an actual incidence of ill health.  All the ones
    24        we have been discussing earlier on are suggesting that if
              people are eating Big Macs six, seven, eight times a week,
    25        then they may exceed the saturated fat level.  This was
              all hypothetical. 
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              What we are talking about here is the actuality --  let me 
    27        finish -- it is demonstrating that there is a serious
              possibility which fits in with known knowledge that meat
    28        is a major source of iron in the diet.  Now, if you have
              people going around advising people to -- school
    29        girls  -----
 
    30   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Sorry, Professor Wheelock.  I am going to be
              deaf if you carry on at that pitch.  Keep your voice at a