Table 1. (Continued) grams/d Food | Cocoa Ramen noodles Candy Total Imported Food Fluids Solids Total Local and Imported Foods Children 4-11 years grams/d Teenage 12-17 years grams/d Adult >18y grams/d 178 NR NR NR NR NR 6.07 6.07 0.53 0.53 NR NR 822 1359 1666 2168 381 441 720 639 876 790 1281 887 1565 2242 2606 3500 992 Fluids 573 Solids Note: NR stands for no response. 4 Data from Robisonetal. (1982a), Appendix A. 1436 806 1581 1025 2327 1173 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 meat, 10 g/d; however, sprouting coconut was not mentioned (Murai, 1954). 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 coconut use of 0.5/d wereall drinking nuts, the average intake would be about 160 g/d. This is in agreement with the results from the MLSC survey at Ujelang. Experience at Enewetak Atoll also supports our model. During the past 2 or 3 years, coconuts have been brought to Enewetak Atoll from Ujelang Atoll. Sufficient 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 quantities have been available for the average consumption rate to have been.1 coconut per day that coconut consumption was about one-third some were discarded orfed to pigs, and thus the 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 volumes of milk, and sprouting nuts used for the sweet, soft core. Finally, recent data from Ereu Island CF showsthat an average drinking coconut contains 325 mL of fluid (standard deviation equals OM YS Ey Zé Oya ts L. L- ww per person if all coconuts were consumed. However, all the coconuts were not consumed; average coconut consumptionrate has been less than 1 coconut per person per day (Wilson, 1985). _ In short, the average coconut consumption rate in our diet model appears somewhathigher than that from mostother 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. oe Children 1.5-3 years