The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-07-27
TO LIVE CENTURY
ON 29C. DAILY
Harvard Football Star Says Sci
entific Eating Is Secret.
MINCE PIE ON UNFAIR LIST.

Brill, Now Thirty, Expects to Par
ticipate In Celebrations of Alma Ma
ter When Classmates Are Buried.
Quit Gridiron Because 1t Had None
of Wars Redsemine Features.
/ Earl Frederick Brill, Harvards old
football star, who quit the game after
dramatically characterizing it as a
brutal gladitorial combat" has again
stirred the classic realms of the Uni
yersity City with the announcement
that he expects to live to see old
Harvard in the next century.
Scientific dieting," he says. twill
enable man to live not only a mere
hundred years or so, but even a half
or three-quarters of century longer.
If a man takes care of himself.
adopts a proper-that is, a thoroughly
scientifc-dietary, see no reason why
he should not be able to live four or
five times as long as the average per-
son does now. l believe the usual
span of life is only about thirty-fve
years. Five times that would be It's
years-not an impossibility.
People Eat Too Much.
i don't restrict myself to any par
ticular sort of food. The great trou-
bic with most people is that they eat
too much, altogether too much.
1T has been demonstrated that all
the nutriment that the average man
and when | say the average man /
mean man of ordinary weight. say
$50 or 160 pounds, who leads a fairly
active life and is in good health-alI
the nutriment that such 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 60 grams;
so does like weight in dried peas,
nine hens eggs or three-f1fths of a
pound of dried beans. Nuts, too, are
very high in proteid value.
when a man is heavier than 100
or ITO pounds he needs a little, not
very much, but little more At the
present time / weigh about 220 pounds,
and l can get along very well on sixty
five grams l don't believe in fasting
any more than do in overeating, for,
though a man must not take too much
food, he certainly must have enough"
Five Cents a Day For Meals.
II am told that your food costs you
only 20 cents day Is that sog' said
Brill's visitor.
II don't know just how much it
costs me, but with little planning it
would be easy for man to live on
much less why, even 5 cents a day.
so far as bulk goes, am very
light eater. never eat any breakfast
My first meal begins at noon. At that
time | usually have Tactic acid and
milk and some rye bread. At night /
have my hearty meal-a little fish,
some vegetables and a few potatoes.
Such diet as that will cost about %
cents, but you see that | have not
taken any of the foods most high in
proteids. The matter of food selec-
ton must be governed by the individ-
ual himself. Some people can use one
food, others another
'Do you really think that you will
live to be more than a hundred years
Of ageY'
Century Is Easy.
Barring accidents, know of no rea-
son why / will not" he replied. Il
have been asked If / did not long for
a good big quarter of mince pie or a
generous helping of plum pudding, and
/ replied that / would be alive and
kicking when all the pie eaters in New
England, the home of pie eaters, were
dead and buried. l used to like such
things, but they are mighty bad for
fellow. said intended to live to be
125 years old, and certainly mean it,
every word of it."
Brill, who is now about thirty, does
not look to be a dieting man, or, as he
puts it, a frugal eater. He is a great,
strapping, ruddy faced fellow, with
deep bass voice. He went to Harvard
from Exeter academy, where he was
captain of the eleven for several years
For one year he played on the Crimson
team, but dropped the sport because,
as he claimed, football is war and
war is hell. But the hell of football
is worse than the hell of war, for foot
ball has none of wars redeeming fea-
lures"