FOOD OF A LIFETIME.
What an unpleasant calculation it is that a French statistician has made of the amount eaten in a human lifetime! He reckons that a person of 70 has consumed a whole trainload of nourishment, 20 waggons of five tons burden each. These hundred tons include ten of bread one and three-quarter tons of meat, 12 thousand eggs, 35001b. of salt. The salads eaten would cover a threeacre field.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3283, 21 December 1928, Page 10
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72FOOD OF A LIFETIME. Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3283, 21 December 1928, Page 10
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