Table 1. (Continued) Children 1.5-3 years Food grams/d Cocoa Ramen noodles Candy NR NR 0.53 Total Imported Food Fluids Solids _ 822 381 441 Children 4-11 years grams/d 2242 1436 806 Adult >18y grams/d NR NR 0.53 1359 720 639 Total Local and Imported Foods 1565 Fluids 992 Solids 573 Note: NR stands for no response. Teenage 12-17 years grams/d NR 6.07 NR ~ 178 6.07 NR 1666 876 790 2606 1581 1025 | | 2168 1281 887 3500 2327 1173 @ Data from Robisonetal. (1982a), Appendix A. coconut products was drinking coconut fluid, 95 mL/d; copra meat, 48 g/d; and drinking 125 mL), so that even if the entire average coconut use of 0.5/d wereall drinking nuts, the coconut meat, 10 g/d; however, sprouting coconut average intake would be about 160 g/d. This is was not mentioned (Murai, 1954). in agreement with the results from the MLSC survey at Ujelang. Experience at Enewetak Atoll also supports our model. During the past 2 The total intake is essentially the same as the results of the Ujelang Survey. It might be noted that consumption of local foods in 1954 was higher than today. In addition, the Bikini Atoll Rehabilitation Committee (BARC) recently asked the Bikini people for a survey on coconut consumption at Kili Island and Majuro (BARC, 1986). The result of this limited survey was that coconut consumption was about one-third that indicated in the MLSC diet listed in Table 1. Similarly, in the summary of a survey conducted during July and August of 1967 at Majuro Atoll, the average coconut use was reported to be approximately 0.5 coconut per day per person (Domnick and Seelye, 1967). This included young drinking coconuts, old nuts used for grated meat and pressed for small volumesof milk, and sprouting nuts used for the sweet, soft core. Finally, recent data from Eneu Island showsthat an average drinking coconut contains 325 mL of fluid (standard deviation equals IC00150 or 3 years, coconuts have been brought to Enewetak Atoll from Ujelang Atoll. Sufficient quantities have been available for the average consumption rate to have been 1 coconut per day per person if all coconuts were consumed. However, all the coconuts were not consumed; some were discarded orfed to pigs, and thus the average coconut consumption rate has been less than 1 coconut per person per day (Wilson, 1985). In short, the average coconut consumption rate in our diet model appears somewhat higher than that from most other sources of information we have found, except the BNL report. Another way to evaluate the general validity of a proposed diet model is to determine the total daily intake in terms of mass and calories. Table 3 lists a summary of the grams per day (g/d) intake in our diet model compared with average U.S. and Japanese diets.