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
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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.
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Children
1.5-3 years