Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-08
20 CENTS A DAY
Harvard Student Says That Is
Sufficient to Feed the Az
erage Person.
WILL PRoLoNG HIS LIFE
Expects to Live a Century on Fare
That Sum ProVides-NEinCe
Pie Not on His List.

Earl Frederick Brill, Harvard's 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
versity City with the announcement
that he expects to live to see old
Harvard in the next century.
Scientific dieting" he says, will
enable man to live not only a mere
hundred years or so, but even a half
or three-quarters of a century longer.
eff man takes care of himself,
adopts a proper-that is, a thoroughly
scientifc-dietary, 1 see no reason why
he should not be able to live four or
five times as long as the average per
span of life is only about thirty-five
years. Five times that would be IT'S
years-not an impossibility.
People Eat Too Much.
'T 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.
1T has been demonstrated that all
the nutriment that the average man
and when 1 say the average man I
mean man of ordinary weight, say
80 or 1G0 pounds, who leads a fairly
active life and is in good health-all
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, a half
pound of fresh beef contains go grams;
so does a 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 40 pounds he needs a little, not
very much. but a little more. At the
present time weigh about 900 pounds,
and I can get along very well on sixty
FIVE grams. l don't believe in fasting
any more than do in overeating, for.
though man must not take too much
food, he certainly must have enough"
Five Cents a Day For Meals.
81 am told that your food costs you
only 20 cents a day. Is that SOP" said
Brill's visitor.
81 don't know just how much It
costs me, but with little planning it
would be easy for q man to live on
much less-why, even 8 cents a day.
$50 far as bulk goes, am a very
light eater. never eat any breakfast.
My first meal begins at noon. At that
time 1 usually have Tactic acid and
milk and some rye bread. At night
have my hearty meal-a little fish,
some vegetables and q few potatoes.
Such a 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 age?"
Century Is Easy
Barring accidents, know of no rea-
son why l will not" he replied ST
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 1 would be alive and
kicking when all the pie eaters in New
England, the home of pie eaters, were |
dead and buried. I used to like such |
things, but they are mighty bad for a
fellow. l said 1 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 dieting man. or as he |
puts it, frugal eater. He is a great. |
ruddy faced fellow, with a |
deep bass voice. He went to Harvard I
from Exeter academy. where he was !