Transcript of Nine News, broadcast on Nine on 9 September 2016 – five health report previews First preview – approximately 25 seconds Voiceover: Arthritis and gout alert. How what you’re eating is making your pain worse. Accompanied by screen images of a woman watching TV experiencing difficulty using the remote control, and cooked food. Woman with arthritis (speaking to camera): I had pain every minute of the day. Followed by full screenshot ‘FIRST ON HEALTH’. Voiceover: In a Nine News special health report… Accompanied by an image of a shirtless man in a medical facility being examined by a doctor. Reporter: We reveal the new list of foods that pain sufferers must avoid. Accompanied by an image of the reporter opening a fridge/freezer displaying graphics of blue and green question marks on the inside. Followed by full screenshot ‘DRUG FREE’. Voiceover: Plus the drug-free pain therapy changing lives. Accompanied by an image of the reporter and a woman behind a table of mostly obscured food with the superimposed text ‘PAIN RELIEF’. Voiceover: That exclusive coming up later in the bulletin. Full screenshot ‘Nine News coming up’. Second preview – approximately 15 seconds Presenter: Arthritis and gout can cause crippling pain but relief could be as simple as restocking your fridge. Accompanied by Nine News ‘Must Watch’, an image of two women standing behind a table of fresh food including milk, vegetables, fruit and meat. A text banner at the bottom of the screen reads, ‘COMING UP TONIGHT. BEATING ARTHRITIS AND GOUT PAIN. REVEALING THE FOODS MAKING SYMPTOMS WORSE’. Followed by the camera panning across another table of fresh produce accompanied by the same text banner at the bottom of the screen, before it zooms-in to close up shots of fresh meat and vegetables. Presenter’s voiceover: In a special health report we reveal the new list of foods you must avoid plus the drug-free therapy changing lives. That’s still ahead.
Attachment B Licensees’ submission to the ACMA dated 24 October 2016: […] Compliance with clause 3.3.1 "Diet alone can cure arthritis conditions" 10. The Report considered in its full context simply does not contain or convey any representation that "diet alone can cure arthritis conditions". It is made very clear in the Report that diet is only one component of a treatment plan for arthritis symptoms, and there is no suggestion that improvements in diet are a complete solution or cure for the condition or its symptoms. 11. Language used throughout the Report clearly demonstrates this, including (emphasis added): "If you're not looking at the way you're digesting and absorbing food... then you're not looking at the whole picture" "Some health experts are now turning to an anti-inflammatory diet to reduce painful symptoms of both arthritis and gout". "Cutting back on sugar, coffee and products made with wheat can also help" "The solution could be all in what you eat". "...there are some superfoods that can help ease the pain". "including pain-busting foods in your weekly grocery shop is iust part of the solution. It's also important to maintain a healthy weight, and do some gentle exercise." "Arthritis Australia says different people can expect different results" 12. The ordinary reasonable viewer would understand these statements to indicate that changes to diet may assist in providing some symptomatic relief to arthritis sufferers. The effects are expressed to "help ease" and "reduce" the pain, as opposed to eradicating pain. Variability in the effect of changing diet for different people is also clearly disclosed, noting that people can expect different results, and making it clear that the dietary advice given during the Report is not held out as a complete cure for arthritis or its symptoms. 13. The Report related to claims made in respect of an anti-inflammatory diet, consisting of foods regarded as having anti-inflammatory properties. This was made apparent in the Report which provided information about "the top inflammatory foods", and references to arthritis as an "inflammatory disease" and the anti-inflammatory diet proposed by health experts. Based on this information, viewers would understand the dietary advice provided in the Report to be proposed as a means to assist in reducing pain caused by the inflammation associated with arthritis, rather than eliminating, or curing the underlying disease itself.