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True Answer: On a yearly basis the average person in Europe and North America eats about:
* 274 kilograms (602 pounds) of sugar * 60 kilograms (133 pounds) of vegetable oil * 43 kilograms (96 pounds) of protein * 18 kilograms (40 pounds) of fiber This totals about 400 kg or 880 lb each year, with water in the food this comes to almost 750 kg/yr or 1500 lb/year. However some foods are not likely to contain insects or insect bits (sugar, protein, vegetable oil) so you are left with on the 40 lb of fiber to contain all the "bug bits"
From the Wikipedia article on Entomophagy (eating insects) it would appear that at most there would be a couple of milligrams of insect fragments in any given food per 10 gram sample - say 5mg/10g or 1part bugs to 2000 parts food.
So, if you live mainly on cereals, breads, candy, penut butte, and canned friuits and veggies you may get up to 1 lb/yr. A healthier diet will see a lot less.
An aside: Bugs aren't all that bad for you. They are a good source of protein. Many countries have a "bug enhanced" diet. In Europe and North America we happily eat bug derived products like honey. *** Studies indicate that on average people eat between 8-12 insects a year in their sleep. In these cases the insects simply end up in the mohth at the wrong time and are swallowed. This can increase if you ride motorcycles or biks with no facial protection.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoSounds quite unlikely. That'd be 1.25 grams each day, and since insects are very lightweight it'd probably like a heaped teaspoon of them. I think I'd notice....
But it's a statement that can't easily be proven one way or another, which makes it a suitable statement for grossing someone out.
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∙ 13y agoNo, but you still eat issects withput knowing, just not a pound.
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∙ 13y agoNot nearly that much. Though no doubt some are eaten when asleep or by accident in other ways.
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∙ 14y agono
Can you verify that statistic?
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∙ 14y agoThis is not true.
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∙ 14y agoNo.
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What is the fear of insects crawling into your ears called?
Insects can crawl into the human ear and way eggs. This can make a human very sick in several different ways and could cause death.
How many insects per human being?
At any given moment, it has been estimated that the insect population is 10^18 or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 and The global population is 6,730,609,019 We can estimate there are 148,574,965.09 insects per human. Hope that helps, Ash ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 insects (one extra zero) http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/buginfo/bugnos.htm and for a current estimate of world population http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popclockworld.html based upon the accuracy of the available measurements, we can say that there are between 150 million and 1.5 billion insects for every man, woman, and child. -TeeGeeRoo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
How much does the insects outnumber all the animals?
Chickens also outnumber humans I beleive. KollinRats they say theres one every 14 meters, Chickens, Fish, Birds, Bacteria if it counts, and possibly cats and dogs
What part of the human body is most commonly bitten by insects?
ankle
Who is the greek god of bugs or insects?
Pan. Pan is a satyr (Half goat half human) and is the God of Nature. There is no God of Insects, but a bug would fall under nature.
Is it true that every single year a human eats about a pound of insects with out knowing it?
No.
Every single human being eats a pound of insects every year without knowing?
no this is not real
Does every single human being eats about one pound of insects a year without knowing it?
No. They do not.
Does every single human being eat at least one pound of insects every year?
yes and it is very good for you
Does every single human being eats about one pound of insects a year without even knowing it!?
No.
Does Every single human being eats about one pound of insects a year with out knowing?
No its not true xox
Is it true that Every single human being eats about one pound of insects a year without even knowing it!?
True moo
Does every human eat one pound of insects every year?
NO
Does every single human eat about a pound of insects every year?
No,we do not but it is in fact true that we eat 8 microscopic spiders every night u go to sleep for aproximitly at least 5 hours
Every single human eatsv about one pound of insects every year without even knowing it?
this is true, we eat at least a pound of insects each year without even knowing! It is usually when we eat cabbage or lettece without cleaning them!
Who invented every single word?
Human brain invented every single word.
Does every human eat about a pound of insects a year with out even knowing it?
No.
