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 human skeleton weighs about 14% of the total body mass. The average human adult skeleton consists of 206 bones.. An average human skull weighs 2.2 pounds (lbs.) Bones are very light .The skeleton weighs less than 20 pounds. In an adult, the skeleton comprises around 20% of the total body weight. The average weight of an adult is approx. 75.3 kg so in an adult the skeleton comprises around 15 kg or 26 pounds. This weight of course varies depending on height, sex, and body weight.