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.
I have long hair and I can see parts of my neck from a mirror. and when I look in the mirror with the sun shining through I can see through open areas of my hair. On average, each person's head carries about as many as 150,000. By the age of 25, this number has fallen to about 600, but the number depends on the physical type of the individual. Between the ages of 30 and 50, the number drops further, to 250-300. There is only a slight further fall with age. Each new hair grows for several years, and can reach over a metre in length.