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3. DIETARY MODELS
Pages 41-52

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... Only two surveys halve provided data that are of potential value in quantitatively estimating adult dietary intakes and are reasonably appropriate to the proposed resettlement of Rongelap: a ~ 978 survey of the Ujelang community by Micronesian Legal Services Corporation (Robison et al., 1980, 1992, 1993) and a 1970s survey of the dietary habits of the northern Marshallese by Naidu et al.
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... . At times' tne survey teams lack of knowledge of local methods of preparing indigenous foods caused them to overlook numerous variables that directly affect food consumption and composition.
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From page 46...
... The survey team lived in local communities for brief periods and reported the food-preparation techniques and food patterns of the islanders. Systematic records of food intake were not made by the survey team.
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From page 47...
... (F) Energy intake kcal/d 3,208 1,392 3,208 137 Cs intakef 2,018 3,208 3,208 Bq/d 31 78 180 152 291-1084 32 Food intake (~/d)
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From page 48...
... Cycles of feast and famine have immediate effects on waste and food conservation. The difference in sampling e.g., assessment of prepared food versus consumed food -- accour~ts for a lower estimate of coconut intake and hence of ingested isotopes in the Ujelang diet mode!
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From page 49...
... In particular, there is little evidence that the relative importance of some local foods in the diet is being accurately assessed. Diet information now being obtained might help to reduce the uncertainties, but historically BNE's reliance on LLNE diet information from the Ujelang diet survey to calculate potential plutonium intake through food has been a risky strategy (Sun et al.
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From page 50...
... The unanswered dietary questions include these: How accurately does the Ujelang diet survey predict the pattern of food consumption on Rongelap? How have northern Marshall islands consumption patterns systematically changed since 1978?
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From page 51...
... indigenous foods would aid in the interpretation of current data on the radiation content of raw food products. The result would reassure northern Marshall Islands residents about one of the possible ingestion pathways of plutonium and strengthen the case for multiple uses of the Ujelang diet model.
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