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...million lbs. Amount of candy corn that will be produced this year...
...soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan often carry much more than 50 lbs. of equipment, including telephones, computers, night-vision goggles and, begrudgingly, the batteries to run them. The batteries alone can weigh as much as 4 lbs...
Certain canola, cottonseed, sunflower and corn oils could substitute for hydrogenated oils. But they're in short supply, since hydrogenated soy oil is cheap and has long been the industrial standard. Some 85% of the roughly 19 billion lbs. of edible oils Americans consume each year comes from soy. About 10 billion lbs. of that soy oil gets hydrogenated, according to Mark Matlock, senior vice president of food research at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM). But alternatives are on the horizon. ADM, for example, has developed oils that not only behave like hydrogenated oils but also, Matlock says, are relatively healthy...
Watch your weight. Morbid obesity, sometimes defined as being more than 100 lbs. above your "normal" weight, is incompatible with healthy aging because it increases the risk of a number of age-related diseases, including cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and osteoarthritis. Ordinary obesity--weighing at least 20% more than you should--correlates with milder forms of these diseases as well as with increased incidence of postmenopausal breast cancer and cancer of the uterus, colon, kidney and esophagus. But what is normal, and how much should you weigh...
...fishing enthusiasts, however, aren't cyclical. Next year ESPN's Bassmaster is adding a women's league and an open élite series worth $11 million in prize money. ESPN is also increasing its coverage. And next December, probably in a California reservoir where the bigmouths grow to 20 lbs., some angler will reel in a lunker that will be worth a million FLW bucks, televised coast to coast. "I didn't create this need. I recognized it," says Jacobs, who has far bigger businesses in his portfolio that could occupy his time. But he's standing on a dock...