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Revisiting survival at sea from a nutrition and food perspective: rationalizing the rations

Published:2023-02-01 Issue:2 Volume:48 Page:219-225
ISSN:1715-5312
Container-title:Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism
language:en
Short-container-title:Appl. Physiol. Nutr. Metab.

Author:

Bordenave Nicolas¹²,Brown Robert³,Basset Fabien⁴,Power Jonathan⁵,Godin Nathalie⁶,Haman François⁷^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Nutrition Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada

2. School of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada

3. School of Maritime Studies, Marine Institute, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL A1C 5R3, Canada

4. School of Human Kinetics and Recreation, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL A1C 5S7, Canada

5. Ocean, Coastal and River Engineering Research Centre, National Research Council of Canada, St. John's, NL A1B 3X5, Canada

6. Transport Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0N5, Canada

7. School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5

Abstract

This study examines the design of food rations for survival at sea required by the International Maritime Organization through the Life Saving Appliances (LSA) Code, as implemented by Transport Canada. Energy demand and body fat reserves were estimated for the Canadian population based on demographic and anthropometric data. It was determined that caloric content of food rations could be drastically decreased without potential harm to survivors of a marine abandonment. Coupled with ration reformulation, such decrease could be an opportunity to extend safe survival conditions to up to 5 days versus 2 days as currently provisioned by the LSA Code.

Publisher

Canadian Science Publishing

Subject

Physiology (medical),Nutrition and Dietetics,Physiology,General Medicine,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

Link

https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/apnm-2022-0229

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