Famine conditions imply a complete

absence of outside or imported foods.

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Both conditions were defined by

Pritchard for the Ujelang diet survey and have been retained by LLL.
Subsistence foods are an LLL expression for the locally grown foods of
the Ujelang Survey.

Under normal conditions,

ferred over local subsistence food items.

imported foods are pre-

During famine conditions

subsistence foods are the only source of dietary intake assumed.
Data on the dietary preferences of the Enewetak people were pro-

vided to LLL in three parts:

(1) Household Survey results for the

Ujelang/Japtan population, (2) individual Medical and Diet Survey (IMD)
results for 144 persons,

and (3) a memorandum from Michael Pritchard

(Micronesian Legal Service) - Subject:

Food Survey, April 22 to May 9, 1979.
for style but with content unchanged,

Report and Field Notes on Ujelang

This report, with minor editing
is attached in Appendix C.

Accord- ing to Pritchard, "the household survey met three major needs:
it pro- vided in descriptive fashion an account of the eating habits for
the entire population of Ujelans;

it provided deta on certain special

diets for certain types of individuals such as pregnant women; and
served 6S a census document for locating individuals for the ID
survey.''

The completed IMD questionnaires provided, when known,

surveyed individuals name, age, sex,
prior medical treatment,

height, weight,

each

sickness frequency,

x-ray history, radiation therapy history,

parental data, and preference for various subsistence and imported foods
under both normal and famine conditions.

Consumed quantities of each

food item preferred were expressed in 12 oz beverage can volume
equivalents per day, week, and monti.

a

90/1100

Pritchard's memorandum provided

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month of a recent field ship.

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