Minatamis na Saging. Minatamis na Saging is a dessert dish wherein plantains (locally known as âsaging na sabaâ) are sweetened by cooking in a sweet mixture composed of water, brown sugar, salt, and vanilla extract. This is one of the quick and easy Filipino dessert recipes that we have.
Chris Beckman gave a great explanation of how that is possible. I'd be a little wary of the 11 pounds estimate. For example Human head article on Wikipedia puts that figure down to 5-11 lbs. But this is quite irrelevant since in many cultures you see people (especially women) carrying great loads atop their heads either for cultural reasons.
The average human can lift their own body weight. And since the average human weighs about 150 lbs, then that is the average weight a human being can lift. Walter Boland.