Sentence:  The Department of Agriculture averaged out U. S. food consumption last year at 1488 lbs. per person , which , <WSD>allowing</WSD> for the 17 million Americans that John Kennedy said go to bed hungry every night , means that certain gluttons on the upper end must somehow down 8 lbs. or more a day . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something