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When Americans tuck into Thanksgiving dinner this week, health-conscious eaters won’t be the only ones monitoring how much they eat. The government will be watching as well.
Each year, the Census Bureau tabulates dozens of obscurefacts related to 20 holidays and other observances, generating statistics on everything from how much turkey we eat to how many pumpkins are produced.
For example, most people probably didn’t realize that a typical American eats 13.7 pounds of turkey and 4.7 pounds of sweet potatoes each year. Or that 256 million turkeys are being raised in America this year. Or that U.S. exports of cranberries and sweet potatoes help reduce the nation’s trade deficit.
Robert Bernstein is a public affairs specialist at the Census Bureau, and for eight years he has been collecting and disseminating trivia related to holidays and other observances.
For St. Patrick’s Day, Bernstein noted that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. For Halloween, he reported that we eat an average of 25 pounds of candy a year. And on Independence Day, he projected that Americans would consume150 million hot dogs on the holiday, roughly one for every twopeople.
“It’s amazing the breadth of information we have,” Bernstein said. “We touch on so many aspects of the human condition.”
Bernstein culls the holiday information from a variety of government sources, relying, for example, on the U.S. Department of Agriculture for much of the data about Thanksgiving. “We try to put out popular, kind of hip information,” Bernstein said. Perhaps, it will give America’s 297 million residents something to ponder as they gather Thursday in many of the country’s 107 million homes.
Tips for Healthy Holiday EatingAs the majority of us know only too well, any attempt at
healthy eating goes sailing out of the window during the holiday season. Statistics say the average American gains between 7-10 pounds during the holiday season and most maintain that extra weight and add on additional pounds the following holiday season.Oh, what a tangled web!Here are 8 tips for eating healthy during the upcoming season.1. Don’t go to a holiday party hungry. I know exactly what you are thinking; however, if you go to a party hungry you most assuredly will overeat. Have a healthy snack before leaving.2. Do not skip meals. Practice your daily eating habits. Eat your 3 to 5 small meals a day. Skipping meals will most assuredly mean over eating when the festive foods are in front of you.3. Increase your exercise. Let’s face it, avoiding the extra caloriesduring this time is very hard. So, increase your exercise to counter balance the extra caloric intake that you may have. One way to get extra exercise is while out doing holiday shopping park in spacesfarthest from the store. Also, choose the stairs versus the elevatoror escalators.4. Don’t be tempted to fill up your plate with purely rich, calorie-laden food. Instead, have a little of everything including fruit and vegetables. This way, you’ll still get to indulge as well as receivevaluable nutrients and vitamins. Always remember that rich, sugary foods have a nasty habit of making us crave yet more rich and sugaryfoods.5. It is quite possible that you may have an allergy or intolerance to a food, which you may not even be aware of. With a mountain of food waiting around every corner during the holiday season, many with unknown ingredients, it’s no wonder that you may feel ill the next morning! By having a food allergy test, you can identify anyfoods that you need to avoid .6. Don’t feel as though you have to say yes to everyone that offers you food and drink. If you are not hungry, then simply say so. Do not let yourself be bullied into eating something that you really don’t want.7. Leave what you don’t want: Despite what your parents may have drummed into you as a child, don’t feel obliged to clear your plate. When you feel full, stop eating. Simple.8. Before taking seconds wait 2 to 5 minutes, you’ll be surprised athow little you really need them.
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► On Nov. 25, 1783, nearly three months after the Treaty of Paris was signed ending the American Revolution, the fi nal British soldiers withdraw from New York City, the last British military position in the United States. The city had been in British hands since 1776.
► On Nov. 26, 1898, a powerful winter storm batters New England, killing at least 450 people in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Blizzard conditions caused 20-foot snowdrifts, some 100 ships were blown ashore in Boston and another 40 were sunk. About 100 people died when a steamer sank near Cape Cod, fi lling the harbors and nearby beaches with bodies and debris.
► On Nov. 23, 1936, the fi rst issue of the pictorial magazine Life is published, and it quickly became an overwhelming success. At its peak, the magazine had a circulation of more than 8 million. Life ceased running as a weekly publication in 1972.
► On Nov. 27, 1942, guitar legend Jimi Hendrix is born in Seattle. Hendrix made his fi rst U.S. appearance at California’s Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. He made a splash by burning his guitar and was quickly established as a rock superstar.
► On Nov. 22, 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling in a motorcade through Dallas. First lady Jacqueline Kennedy was beside him, along with Texas Gov. John Connally and his wife. Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fi red three shots from the sixth fl oor of the Texas Book Depository.
► On Nov. 28, 1582, William Shakespeare, 18, and Anne Hathaway,
26, pay a 40-pound bond for their marriage license in Stratford-upon-Avon. Six months later, Anne gave birth to their daughter, Susanna, and two years later, to twins. Shakespeare’s plays were not published until after his death, when two members of his troupe collected copies of his plays and printed the First Folio (1623).
► On Dec. 4, 1928, “Dapper Dan” Hogan, a St. Paul, Minn., saloonkeeper and mob boss, is killed when someone plants a car bomb under the fl oorboards of his new Paige coupe. The fi rst car bomb was a horse-drawn-wagon bomb that exploded in 1920 outside the J.P. Morgan Company’s offi ces in New York City.
► On Nov. 29, 1942, coffee joins the list of items rationed in the United States. Rationing was generally employed to guarantee a fair distribution to all citizens and to give priority to military use in World War II.
► On Dec. 3, 1979, 11 people are killed in a stampede outside a Who concert in Cincinnati when a crowd of general-admission ticket-holders surges forward through shattered doors in an attempt to secure prime unreserved seats inside. After the crowd cleared, 11 concert-goers were found on the ground, dead from asphyxiation.
► On Nov. 30, 1989, Aileen Wuornos, America’s fi rst female serial killer, picks up her fi rst victim in Palm Harbor, Fla. She would kill a total of seven men in the next year. When caught, Wuornos confessed but claimed that they had all been killed in self-defense.
► On Dec. 1, 1990, workers 132 feet below the English Channel drill through a fi nal wall of rock, opening the “Chunnel” and connecting the two ends of an underwater tunnel linking Folkestone, England, and Calais, France.
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• James Carpentar of Salem, Ohio, a member of the Northern Nut Growers Association (NNGA), discovered a large living American chestnut in the midst of a grove of dead trees in the early 1950s. The tree showed no sign of blight infection. Carpentar and Dr. Robert T. Dunstan, another member of the NNGA and a well-known plant breeder in Greensboro, North Carolina, conducted research, grafting and cross-pollinating chestnut trees. They cross-pollinated grafts from the strong American chestnut with a mixture of three United States Department of Agriculture-released Chinese chestnut varieties. After years of work, Dunstan Hybrid Chestnuts were developed. They have a combination of American and Chinese traits. The fi rst chestnuts to ever receive a U.S. Plant Patent, the Dunstan trees are healthy, vigorous trees that bear heavy annual crops of large, sweet-tasting nuts.• The grandson of Dr. Dunstan, R.D. Wallace, and his wife, Deborah A. Gaw, started Chestnut Hill Tree Farm in 1981 in Alachua, Florida. Dunstan Chestnuts are the most widely planted chestnut variety, and Chestnut Hill is a national leader in the chestnut industry. • The American Chestnut Foundation, started by plant scientists in 1983, is also working to reestablish American chestnut trees. They have worked to breed blight-resistant trees, while maintaining the characteristics of the original trees. The successful program has resulted in trees that retain “no Chinese characteristics other than
blight resistance.”• Canadian scientists and naturalists established the Canadian Chestnut Council in 1988 to work on reestablishing the trees in Canada as well, mainly in Ontario. • There are fewer than 2,500 acres (1,012 ha) of chestnut orchards in the United States. We import $20 million of chestnuts annually. Our consumption of chestnuts is very low compared to Europe, Asia and Africa. Most chestnuts are imported from Japan, China, Spain and Italy.• Chestnuts are used as a potato substitute frequently in Europe, Asia and Africa. The nuts actually contain twice as much starch as potatoes. They are also similar to brown rice in their nutritional value and sometimes called a “grain that grows on a tree.” They are 40 percent carbohydrates and only 2-3 percent fat, compared to many nuts that contain 50 percent fat. They contain 5-10 percent high quality protein and no cholesterol. • In some European countries, Catholics give chestnuts to the poor on the Feast of Saint Martin in November. Also, chestnuts are eaten as a traditional food on Saint Simon’s Day in Tuscany, Italy. • Chestnuts are excellent steamed or roasted. They are often included in dressing with turkey for holiday meals and are a great addition to soups and stews. Chestnuts can be ground into fl our and used for baking pastries and bread. A traditional European dessert, “Mont Blanc,” has chestnuts sweetened with honey and topped with whipped cream. Also, a few beer brewers are
now producing gluten-free chestnut beer. • One of the largest chestnut forests in the world is on the French island of Corsica. In the 16th century, landowners were ordered to plant four trees each year in an eastern mountainous area of the island. The town of Castagniccia, which means chestnut grove, became forested with magnifi cent chestnut trees. Today, that forest is dying from neglect.• Tourists and locals walking the streets of Beijing and other Chinese cities are likely to fi nd chestnuts being roasted and sold by street vendors. About 40 percent of the world’s chestnuts are consumed in China. They roast them in ovens, on coals or even in hot sand. They also simmer them in numerous dishes and add them to soups.• American chestnut wood is straight-grained, easily workable, lightweight and highly rot-resistant. It is used for railroad ties, fence posts, barn beams and home construction, as well as for musical instruments and fi ne furniture. Healthy chestnut trees grow straight and tall, often not producing branches until around 50 feet (15 m). The trees are known for being used “from cradle to coffi n.”• A famous piece of chestnut furniture is an armchair on display at the Longfellow National Historic Site,
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Although video games increase in popularity on a daily basis, there’s nothing like a good old board game! Check out the origins of some of these longtime favorites. • If you’re familiar with the names of Mrs. Peacock, Professor Plum and Colonel Mustard, you’ve played Clue. This murder mystery game was invented in England in 1944 by a solicitor’s clerk who thought it would be a good way to pass the time while sitting in underground bunkers during World War II air raid drills. It was originally called “Murder!” The players move throughout nine rooms of a mansion seeking clues as to which character committed the crime and which weapon — rope, revolver, wrench, candlestick, knife or lead pipe — was used. • Two Canadian journalists conceived the idea of the popular game Trivial Pursuit, commercially released in 1981. An 18-year-old artist created the fi nal artwork for the game. In 1984 alone, more than 20 million games were sold. • It’s not surprising that the best-selling board game in the world is the game of Monopoly, with more than 200 million games sold. It’s estimated that 500 million people have played the game since its release during the Great Depression. It’s sold in 103 countries and in 37 languages. In the English version, the highest rent property is “Boardwalk,” but if you live in Spain, it’s Paseo del Pradeo named after a Barcelona street, and in France, it’s Rue de la Paix. During the game’s history, it’s been more than just a source of entertainment. During World War II, Monopoly games containing escape maps, compasses and fi les were smuggled to prisoners in German POW camps. Real money was even hidden inside packs of the play money to aid in prisoners’ escapes.• A serious illness was the catalyst for the creation of one of the most popular children’s games, Candy Land. Eleanor Abbott was recovering from polio in 1945 and wanted to create something to entertain children affl icted with the disease. She devised a race to fi nd the lost King of Candy Land covering 134 winding colored squares, so that no reading skills were required. Characters encountered along the route included Queen Frostine, Gramma Nutt and Lord Licorice, as players made their way through the Candy Cane Forest and Gum Drop Mountain. The fi rst games sold for a dollar. There have been more than 40 million Candy Land games sold since. • Chutes & Ladders was created to teach children good morals — Good deeds are rewarded with a trip up the ladder, while bad conduct results in a slide down. Originally called Snakes & Ladders, its origins are in India, with slithering serpents as the consequences of bad choices. Milton Bradley brought it to America in 1943 and changed the name and format. • In 1964, to coincide with the Beatles’ arrival in America, Milton Bradley released its
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