| name: | Professor Michael A. Crawford, PhD., FIBiol., CBiol |
| section: | Nutrition |
| for: | The Defence |
| experience: | Human Nutrition |
summary:
During my visit to Indonesia and Malaysia this spring, deep concern was being publicly experessed by health workers, that this had already happened: diabetes and heary disease were appearing as a new health problem. The high profile Western foods and fast foods outlets such as McDonald's, is seen as playing a significant part in the introduction of these diseases which are new to these parts of the world.
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PhD., FIBiol., Cbiol., currently director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, London
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full statement:
There is unanimous agreement, world-wide from over 60 expert committees, that cardiovascular disease is closely and causally related to a diet high in saturated fats. Whilst it is accepted that other factors, such as a low intake of fresh fruit and vegetables, may be involved, the hard animal and human evidence which has stood the test of time since 1953 refers to saturated type fats, typically derived from ruminants and hydrogenation of natural oils. There is also increasing evidence that a high intake of fat and a low intake of dietary fibre is associated with breast and colon cancer. Although the same, hard experimental evidence is not so far available for these cancers, the epidemiological evidence linking Western diets and these cancers is compelling. The recent report from the office of the Surgeon General of the USA discussed fats and refined carbohdrates.
Based on the same evidence, the NATO Workshop on dietary fats and disease, held in Selvino, Italy (published in 1989), made the specific recommendation that food and agricultural practices associated with the high mortality from heart disease, breast and colon cancer of the Western countries, should not be exported to Developing Countries where these disease were at that time, not a problem. During my visit to Indonesia and Malaysia this spring, deep concern was being publicly experessed by health workers, that this had already happened: diabetes and heary disease were appearing as a new health problem. The high profile Western foods and fast foods outlets such as McDonald's, is seen as playing a significant part in the introduction of these diseases which are new to these parts of the world.
| date signed: | July 27, 1993 |
| status: | Appeared in court |
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