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     1        be a commentary on that report.  Could you enlighten us?
     2        If you look at the "Abstract" on page 1153, internal page,
     3        it has a comment on the Committee --  "The Committee on
     4        Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer of the National Academy of
     5        Sciences recently evaluated the role of diet in
     6        carcinogenesis".
     7
     8   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You can see, if you look at the last page of
     9        tab 62, it has a reference to it, No. 1.
    10
    11   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  Do you know, Dr. Arnott, whether that report
    12        led to recommendations sort of backed by the US
    13        government?
    14        A.  I do not know.
    15
    16   Q.   If I can just read out ----?
    17        A.  This is a regularly quoted paper, of course.
    18
    19   Q.   Yes.  It was a very widely respected paper, was it?
    20        A.  Well, I think people would say it was an interesting
         paper.
    22
    23   Q.   The National Academy of Sciences, is that a very
    24        established body in America?
    25        A.  It is an established body, yes.
    26
    27   Q.   Just to go back to the Abstract:  "The Committee", which
    28        I will call it, "recently evaluated the role of diet in
    29        carcinogenesis.  Both epidemiological and laboratory
    30        evidence suggests that a high intake of total fat
    31        increases susceptibility to cancer of different sites,
    32        particularly the breast and colon.  In epidemiological
    33        studies frequent consumption of certain fruits and
    34        vegetables and in laboratory experiments some components
    35        of fruits and vegetables" -- I read that completely
    36        ungrammatically.
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  In any event they appear to decrease the
    39        incidence of cancers in various sites.
    40
    MR. MORRIS:  I am just reading to catch up with myself here.
    42        It does say in the Abstract, the second to last sentence:
    43        "Interim dietary guidelines to reduce the risk of cancer
    44        were proposed in accordance with these conclusions."   But
    45        we have not those diet guidelines so -- just give me one
    46        minute to get my thoughts.
    47
    48        If we look at the bottom of what is actually the third
    49        page in my copy here, I think it is page 1154?
    50        A.  1154? 
    51 
    52   Q.   Yes. 
    53
    54   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Second page of the article of the actual
    55        script.
    56
    57   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  "Interim Guidelines: '... the committee
    58        recommends that the consumption of both saturated and
    59        unsaturated fats be reduced in the average U.S. diet'."
    60        They talk about reduction to 30 per cent.  It says:  "'The