The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-05
WHAT A HEALTHY MAN EATS.
Necessities That Are Consumed in
an Average Lifetime.
From London Tit-Bits.

| from LonQon Ilt-bltS,
The most modest eater in the world
or even the man who complains that
he f'never has an appetite" would
probably be appalled, if he could see
passing in imposing procession before
him all the solids and liquids he will
consume in a lifetime.
But let us assume that we have TO
| deal with d man who is not ashamed
| to admit that he enjoys his meals, and
! let us place before him all the food and
! fluids that he will require to keep him
! going for a life time of seventy years.
Such a man will make light of dis
posing of 100 pound loaves every
| twelve months so that we must pro-
vide him with 1000 substantial loaves,
a weight of bread sufficient to raise d
couple of hundred men and women off
their feet. If he is not sufficiently i'm
pressed by this spectacle, let us engage
seventy-five herculean car men and
make them file past him in profession,
each carrying sack of flour $50 pounds
in weight, every one of which will be
required to supply him with bread for
his life.
Of meat he will eat on an average a
pound a day, and If we limit him to
o1ec We SKULL require nearly forty bull
locks TO provide the necessary joints
for life. or if he prefers mutton, we
must sacrifice about forty sheep on the
altar for his not immoderate appetite
every ten years. OF potatoes 200
weight should last him a year. This
means that his aggregate consumption
of tubers will weigh seven tons, repre-
senting ninety-four sacks, each weigh
ing 1853 pounds, or approximately the
entire product of a couple of acres of
land. We shall require half a dozen
strong horses TO draw our potato sup
ply, and each years consumption will
weigh more than our subject himself
OF f1sh we must allow him one-half
hundred weight a year, so that his
aggregate fish," if not so large as a
whale, will yet turn the scale at one
ton fifteen hundred-weight, and will
tax the strength of thirty strong men
to carry it to his larder.
Our purchase of eggs will be on a
formidable scale, even limiting our
man to an average of fewer than two
eggs a week. In all, we shall want
1000 eggs, weighing at least ZOO
pounds, and representing a years in
dustry of about eighty hens.
Assuming that we only provide sew
en-tenths of glass of milk a day-a
very modest quantity for all purposes
we shall find 1t necessary to monop-
olize the services of a cow for two
years and a quarter, and the result
ant milk will measure 1,120 gallons and
Will weigh more than five tons. To
contain the milk we must provide a
can five feet in diameter at the base
three feet at the top and more than
fourteen feet high, on something like
two and half times as high as our
subject.
Nothing less than eighteen pounds
of butter can be considered sufficient
for years supply, and this means
that in his lifetime our man will dis
pose of the contents of more than a
dozen barrels, each containing 100
pounds of butter, while, limiting him
to one pound of cheese a month, we
reach an aggregate of $40 pounds, or,
assuming that we are providing for
man of 100 pounds weight, five and
quarter times his own weight
SO far we have laid in a stock of
food which it would take 900 strong
men to carry to our imaginary larder,
for it weighs we'll over thirty tons,
and this is, as can be seen, but an in
stallment of what we shall require.
OF tea and coffee we will furnish no
more than pint day, having regard
for our patients nerves, and yet we
shall find that he will drink during his
life no fewer than 1920 gallons. A cof-
fee pot large enough to contain the
two beverages (for we can safely mix
them for our purpose) will stand eigh-
teen feet high, with base of seven
feet and a top five feet across. The
pot, with it's contents, will outweigh
three companies of soldiers and fifty
people could be slowed away inside of
it if they did not object to little tenn
porary discomfort.