Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-07-06
TO LIVE CENTURY
ON 29C. DAILY
Harvard Football Star Says Sci
entifiC Eating Is Secret.
MINCE PIE ON UNFAIR LIST.

ticipste In Celebrations of Alma Ma
ter When Classmates Arc Buried.
Quit Gridiron Because It Had None
of Wars Redeeminq Features.
Earl Frederick Brill. Harvard's old
football star, who quit the game after
matically characterizing 1t as a
brutal gladitorial combat" has again
stirred the classic realms of the Uni
vei-Sity City with the announcement
that he expects to live TO see old |
Harvard In the next century.
Scientific dieting" he says, will |
en-; bile man to live not only mere
hundred years or so. but even half !
or thrce-Quarters of n century longer.
IF mnn takes care OF himself,
adopts u proper that is. thoroughly
scientific dietary. | see no reason why
he should not be able TO live -four or
dive times rs long rs the average per-
son docs now believe the usual
span OF life is only about thirty-fvs
years. Five times that would be 1I6
years-not an impossibility.
Peop,e Eat Too Much.
Il don't restrict myself to any par
ticular sort Of food. The great trou-
BILE with most people is that they eat
too much altogether too much.
at has been demonstrated that all
the nutrinent that the average man
and when say the average man
mean man Of ordinary weight say
| $50 or 1GO pounds. who leads fairly
active life and is in good health-al
the nutriment that such a man needs
Is sixty grams Of proteid. the muscle
building elements in all foods, each
; day.
, "Of course the proteid value of foods
varies greatly. For instance, half
pound Of fresh beef contains GO grams;
so does like weight in dried peas,
D nine hens eggs or three-fifths Of a
D pound of dried beans. Nuts, too, are
very high in proteid value.
when Il man is heavier than $50
or 1TO pounds he needs little, not
D very much. hut little more At the
l present time | weigh about 90 pounds
and can get along very well on sixty
five grams | don't believe in fasting
| any more than do I'm overeatlng, for
though a man must not take too mucl
Is food he certainly must have enough"
Five Cents a Day For Meals.
81 am told that your food costs yo'
only 20 cents day. Is that sor' sat
he Brill's visitor.
he 81 don't know just how much
no costs me. hut with a little planning
of would Ice easy for man to live O.
Id much lesS-why. even 3 cents day.
d. $50 far as bulk goes, l am yer
dy light eater. never eat any breakfas
MY first meal begins at noon At this
time | usually have Tactic acid an
milk and some rye bread. At night
to have my hearty meal-a little ifs
ch some vegetables and n few potatoe
he Such diet us that will cost about
ay cents. but YOU see that l have n
taken any of the foods most high
proteids The matter of food seie
ton must be governed by the indivi
y ual himself Some people can use o.
OF food others another"
do you really think that you W
live to be more than n hundred yea
Of agef"
Century is Easy.
lpe Barring accidents, know Of no n
ilsI son why | will not" he replied.
'ith have been asked If | did not long
good big quarter of mince pie 81
generous hc'Ding Of plum pudding. q
mo replied that would be alive q
1ss- kicking when all the pie eaters in n
England. the home of pie eaters, w
dead and buried. / used to like 81
things. but they are mighty bad 10
fellow | said intended TO live to
l25 years old. and | certainly mean
every word of it"
Brill. who is new about thirty. d
not lock 10 be Il dieting man. or. as
puts it, Il frugal eater. lie is gr
y StrappinS. ruddy faced fellow. wit
ana deep bass voice. He went to Harry
from Exeter academy. where lie
captain If the eleven for several we
For one year he played OH tile Grim
team. but dropped the sport beca
as he claimed. football Is war
war is hell. But the hell Of foot
hers is worse than the hell of war. for
ball has none of wars redeeming
lures"