-5- Healy: Doesn’t like “normal” and “famine” diet terminology. Robison: This terminology is used by the Enewetak people. now considered the normal way of life. foods are Imported They would import foods using cash if the Department of Interior didn’t provide it. Robi son read from an unpublished paper and thesis by Lawrence Carruchi that substantiates the use of the word “famine.” Robison indicated that it is not true that the diet of the hlarshallese will revert to “famine” conditions when the U.S. leaves. The people’s normal diet changed in the 1930’s. Richmond: Jack Tobin did a diet survey several years ago. slightly His results indicated His greater intake of food than the present diet survey. study was not as extensive as the present survey. klachholz: Janakiram (Jan) Naidu (Brookhaven) has recent diet data that was given to Wachholz June 19. Healy: Jan went into people’s homes, took food home and measured quantities. He also took pictures of people eating meals. Thompson: Was increased intake of coconuts during extreme hot weather taken into account in the diet survey? Robison: Yes! Francis: Have you data for radionuclide It’s ~~eraged in over the year. concentrations in coconut fluid versus that in coconut mat? Robison: Not at the present ti~, but this information will be available shortly. Gilbert: Have you attempted to put error limits un the average diet intakes? Robison: Not yet! We are still summarizing data in different ways. the data. We are looking at the We are going to get each individuals total