Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-15
Or. Wiley Says Every Person
Should Eat One Per Cent Of
His Weight Each Day.
TELLS SECRET OF GETTING FAT
How to Grow Thin Also Revealed in
This Simple Rule for Regulating
Diet-starch and Sugar Declared
the Beet Food for the sustennnce
of Physical Exertion.

Harvey w. Wiley, Chief of the Blu.
reau or Chemistry of the Department
of Agriculture, is authority for the
statement that every man eats every
DAY "one per cent of his weight in
dry foods, and it requires one hun
dred days for him to eat his own head
Off" II man eats less he will lose
weight. DR.. Wiley asserts, and if he
eats more he will gain, which will
be; good news to the thin who want to
get fat. DR.. Wiley adds that every
person should consume four and Il
half pounds of solids and liquids
every day, but in doing the ordinary
work of government clerk this
amount is above the average
To the House committee on ex-
penditures of the Department of Agrl.
culture Dr. Wiley said he had never
,nade an investigation to determine
the best foods for mental labor, but
he believed the general opinion that
particular kinds of foods nourished
particular parts of the body was
quite erroneous.
Nerve and brain foods are adyer
tiRed, but they are all nonsense"
said DR.. Wiley Nor do drugs have
fattening effect. On the contrary,
most of them have a degrading eff.
feet Arsenic up TO certain point
has fattening effect. man gains
in weight for time and then dies;
but that is n poison.
Would Choose Own Ration.
"a man may drink glass Of ty-
phoid germs IL he Is in vigorous
health and may not get typhoid fever,
because his system may throw off the
poison, but II he Is broken down one
OF the germs will produce typhoid.
Not man hut has pneumonia germ
In his mouth. 1t will not affect the
healthy being. but let man get a
cold and 1t Will take its seat in his
lungs"
food for man to eat?" asked Chair
man Littlefield.
II think a man ought to choose his
own ration" replied DR.. Wiley. Lots
of people are vegetarians think we
eat too much meat for health. Far
the sustenance of physical exertion
If YOU have hard work to do there is
nothing better than starch or sugar.
The cereal eating nations can en-
dure more physical toll than the
accepted view, but it is true. You
cannot tire out Japanese, who eats
rice. He will draw you all around
the town on a pound of rice, and he
as fresh at the close OF the day as
when he started You could not do
that on pound of meat to save your
life"
The Poison Squad.
A.. A.
boys" in his '"poison squad This
is the fifth year" he said. that we
have been testing the effect upon
health and digestion of personalities,
colors and other substances that
have been commonly used in our
foods
THE young men are first allowed
to eat wholesome food" he went on
I'VE buy the best in the market It
is carefully inspected by myself and
analyzed. They have preliminary
period, during Which we vary the
ration, SO that they do not neither
gain or lose in weight. Then we add
small quantity of one of the pre-
scrvatives, like borax. adding half a
grain day to their food. They eat
that for ten days. then we increase it
to grain, and they eat that for an
other ten days.
Not a Thing Wasted.
Nothing is wasted. If they trim
their nails they have to bring the
trimmed fingers to us, or if their
hair is cut they bring us their hair.
so we can keep track of the income
aud outgo, just as you keep bank
account. In that way we can deter.
mine whether these things disturb
the natural progress of affairs.
eve keep that up until we make
them Ill, until we produce some ef-
feet, disturbance of some kind
Then we put them on the old ration
and observe that for ten or fifteen
days. until they are restored to their
normal condition. This requires an
enormous amount of analytical work
and yet it is the only way in which
these great questions can be answer
ed. You can theorize about it as
much as you like, but the facts must
be ascertained before final conclu
sion.
Zone of the interesting things we
found was the effect of fumes oil
burning sulphur, SO commonly used
In the preservation of foods. We eX
amined microscopically the blood o
each of our young men. We counted
the blood corpuscles, white and red
and the amount of coioring matter
and we found that the moment they
began to take sulphurous acid thei
blood corpuscles began to fade ant
became diminished in number, thu
oxygen carrying capacity OF the blood
being diminished
Mr.. Littlefield wanted TO know VIII,
1t was that the salary of DR.. Vile!
amounted to only S3,490.25 last yea
Instead of $4,000. The doctor replied
he "docked" himself in order to g