HOW MUCH DO WE EAT?
In one year the average person m Great Britain consumes about 16 times his own' weight in food and drink, which 1 means that a healthy person swallows a ton a year. A correspondent of the ‘ Sunday Referee ’. has calculated that during the year there goes into the-average stomach half a .sheep* one-third of a pig; one-eighth of-a cow-, two chickens, 160 eggs,'three'times a person’s own weight of bread, lewt. or sugar and sweets, 2,000 cups of teii,eight bucketfuls of milk, and (if a i-.an), 30 gallons of beer—enough for a comfortable bath; 961 b of fresh fruit, including 150 apples, 120 oranges, 60 bananas, and half a slice of pineapple; the person’s own weight in potatoes, 251 b of butter, and 81b of margarine*
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Evening Star, Issue 22448, 19 September 1936, Page 2
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130HOW MUCH DO WE EAT? Evening Star, Issue 22448, 19 September 1936, Page 2
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