SESSION I 143 its mineral requirements from ihe sea in not onty the shell but parti- cutarly in the digestive gland. Peuple eating the entire organism are thus actually being supplied with the minerals they need. The same is true if .aey are eating the fish; they eat the entire fish. Maybe you can say it's the Japanese influence, but as part of their diet they will eat many of the algal groups and here again they have a good source of minerals, 1 think one might comment that one of the things we have feared was that a nice handout would change their food habits appreciably— they are eating rice now and canned goods to a very great extent. This new diet may have a much more specific effect upon them than some of the things we've been talking about in the context of radiation contamination. FREMONT-SMITH: Do you think their diet might become deficient now because of the canned goods? CONARD: I don't think so. now. They eat canned salmon. FREMONT-SMITH: CONARD: I think they're getting more protein But what about minerals ? We haven't seen any real evidence of nutritional defi- ciency. BRUES: If I may quote from your most recent monograph (Refer- ence 9), the 1965 urine analyses showed around 100 milligrams of calcium per liter. I suspect this is a little low rather than high. CONARD: I've forgotten exactly what it is. MILLER: The question was ruised this morning as to whether or not radiation was singled out as a special horror when, in fact, it was not special, Yet you have shown us that among the Marshallese there was no serious consequences from fallout at first, but after 10 years a high proportion of children were found to have thyroid nodules and two of the children were very markedly dwarfed. Why ‘shouldn't there be fear, then, about radiation in particular? These people had no controi over it. Exposure need not come from nuclear war; in this instance it was a nuclear accident. As Dr. ae Boer said, nuclear wars or nuclear weapons now may be more limited in their effect, more limited in their areas of influence where perhaps fallout will be a serious consequence. But, even if itis not, the fear among the people may be deep and widespread.