How many pounds of food will one person eat in a lifetime?
A newsletter from the Wolfe Clinic sets a person’s total intake at 60,000 to 100,000 pounds. Another site gives the answer in terms of a math problem: “An elephant weighs about 10,000 pounds. In your lifetime, you will eat the equivalent weight of 6 elephants.” We’re not sure that pachyderms are the most appetizing example to illustrate food consumption, but it makes for an interesting visual. So what else weighs 60,000 pounds? • 60,000 paperback copies of Stephen King’s “The Stand” • 17,455 iPods (80GB model) • 20,000 bags of Halloween candy • 15,000 Paris Hilton pets (Chihuahuas) • 9.4 Hummer H2s The USDA has more tasty tidbits about our how our cravings add up over a year. In 2000, the average person ate 195 pounds of meat (red meat, poultry, and fish), 250 pounds of eggs, 59
