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.