10/06Estimated number of minutes of cocoa picking required to make a treat-sized Hershey chocolate bar: 1

Harper’s research

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.)

10/92Number of calories in a chocolate chip cookie baked according to Hillary Clinton’s recipe: 68

Family Circle (N.Y.C.)

    Number of calories in a chocolate chip cookie baked according to Barbara Bush’s recipe: 75

Family Circle (N.Y.C.)

6/03Estimated number of Ding Dongs manufactured per minute at St. Louis’s Interstate Brands factory: 1,000

Interstate Brands Corp. (Kansas City, Mo.)