> You caught me in an exageration!  Actually 40% was too high...the
> actual
> number is 39.25 %!  Sorry.
>
> Last year the average American ate 121 pounds of fruit, 193 poiunds of
> meat and chicken, 199 pounds of flour, grains, cereals, 394 pounds of
> vegetables and 586 pounds of milk and dairy products.  All of this
> information is taken from the FOOD CONSUMPTION, PRICES & EXPENDITURES
> ANNUAL DATA book published by the United Stated Department of
> Agriculture, edited by Judith Putnam and Jane Allhouse.  I have a nice
> food pyramid chart for your review:
> Robert "NOTMILKMAN" Cohen
> http://www.notmilk.com
Of course milk is mostly water, so 586 pounds of milk does not
look like that much by comparison to 199 pounds of grains or
193 pounds of meat.
Caloric % would be far more usefull.

Ilya