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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read from an unpublished paper and thesis by Lawrence Carruchi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