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     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If it is important, no doubt Mr. Rampton
     2        will take up this later if he wants to.  But we need
     3        copies of both those studies because it is another
     4        potential source of information about eating habits.
     5
     6   MS. STEEL:   We have the second one.  Professor Crawford was
     7        expecting the first one in the post this morning, but it
     8        did not turn up.
     9
    10   THE WITNESS:  The second one is really the relevant one; the
    11        first one is 1982.  The second one is 1994.
    12
    13   MR. MORRIS:  It is No. 9 on the list.
    14
    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, I can see that.
    16
    17   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I have it and I have read it.  As
    18        Professor Crawford said, I doubt it is relevant but that
    19        is another question.
    20
    MS. STEEL:   I would say that it is relevant to the issue
    22        about  ---
    23
    24   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do not worry because ---
    25
    26   MS. STEEL:   -- the type of diets people have.
    27
    28   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  -- you are going to ask Professor Crawford
    29        something about it now, so we will see.
    30        Professor Crawford is going to get the 1982 one, so that
    31        can be looked at, if thought relevant.
    32
    33   MS. STEEL:   Right.
    34
    35   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Did you want to ask Professor Crawford
    36        something about the 1994 school children?
    37
    38   MS. STEEL:   Yes.  Really I wanted to ask about what you
    39        discovered in terms of what the eating habits were of the
    40        children that you surveyed?
         A.  Well, we were very concerned about the results of this
    42        survey because some 28 per cent of the girls had by a
    43        chemically determined border line or deficient levels of
    44        iron which is not a good idea and a sign of poor
    45        nutrition.  But I think one of the major concerns is on
    46        page 379 on table 7 where we record the mean energy,
    47        scores intakes of food per day by food groups as a
    48        percentage of the total dietary energy.
    49
    50        I just for a moment want to draw your attention to what is 
    51        happening here, that the -- we have asked how much in the 
    52        way of chips the boys and girls ate and then calculated 
    53        the energy content, the dietary energy content, of the
    54        chips and expressed that as a percentage of the total
    55        energy intake.  This applies to all the other items.
    56
    57        If you cast your eye down the percentage energy of the
    58        girls, you will see that chips constitute 12.2 per cent of
    59        the energy; bread, white bread, 12 per cent; confectionery
    60        8 per cent; meat 7.5 per cent; biscuits and buns 7.5 per