8/03Number of candy-bar wrappers that Cadbury’s new anti-obesity campaign offers to exchange for a basketball: 90

Cadbury (Bournville, U.K.)

    Minimum hours of basketball required for an 85-pound child to burn off the calories from that many candy bars: 100

Samantha Heller, New York University Medical Center (N.Y.C.)

2/96Years in jail a California man was sentenced to last year after his third burglary offense, the theft of four cookies: 26

Public Defender’s Office (Orange County, Calif.)

5/95Damages paid by the Kellogg Company this year after an Ohio man claimed a flaming Pop-Tart ignited his kitchen: $2,400

Kellogg Co. (Battle Creek, Mich.)

10/90Estimated number of M&M’s sold each day in the United States: 200,000,000

M&M-Mars (Hackettstown, N.J.)

12/91Estimated number of cookies that will be left out for Santa Claus this Christmas Eve: 84,000,000

Land O’ Lakes (Arden Hills, Minn.)