Tables 17 through 21 summarize our dietary intake results for
subsistence foods under normal and famine conditions for adult males,
‘adult females, and children in the 0 to 4, 4 to 12,
Tanges, respectively.
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Results for imported foods (normal conditions
only) are summarized in Tables 22 through 24.
Dr. Jan Naidu documented the dietary intake of Marshallese people on
Rongelap and Uterik Atolls as part of a multi~atoll survey conducted from
September through November of 1978.19
The preliminary results from his
work are listed in Table 25 and compared with the adult male diet from the
Ujelang Survey conducted by the MLS.
The diet listed from Dr. Naidu's
“work is a maximum diet for adult males,
consuming only locally grown foods.
i.e., a diet in which people were
This dietary intake should be com-
pared with the "famine diet" situation from the Ujelang Survey.
The
dietary intake between the different atolls is not to different; intake
of all dietary items is similar except for breadfruit and Pandanus
Fruit.
This difference can probably be attributed to the large developed
trees at Rongelap and Uterik and the lack of the same at Ujelang and
certainly Enewetak.
It will take 15 years or more for these trees to
develop on Enewetak to the stage they have on Rongelep so that sufficient
fruit would be available for a higher consumption.
Although the coconut
meat and milk intake are separately different the combined intake is
similar.
Dr. Naidu reports that the “normal diet,"
which is the one thet
exists most of the time at the atolls, could be determined by dividing
the maximum diet data by a factor of 6 or 7. li
When this is done the
results are comparable to the normal diet developed from the Ujelang
Survey.
In addition, Dr. Naidu stated that the womens diet is
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