Re: Food Checkout Week

In article <ddfr-6F20CC.22103507022008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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David Friedman  <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>In article <13qn9qfb2qemh71@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> David Harmon <source@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:45:32 -0800 in rec.arts.sf.fandom, David
>> Friedman <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote,
>> >1.31 cups of 
>> >wheat flour, 1.32 cups of rolled oats, 16 fluid ounces of milk, 3.86 
>> >tablespoons of peanut butter, 7.28 tablespoons of lard, 0.0108 ounces
of 
>> >beef liver, 1.77 bananas, 0.0824 of an orange, 0.707 cup of shredded 
>> >cabbage, 0.314 of a carrot, 0.387 of a potato, and 0.53 cup of ****k
and 
>> >beans.
>> 
>> What are the cooking instructions?  All mixed up into a kind of a
>> pancake?
>
>No cooking instructions.
>
>This is the result of solving a constrained minimization problem: Find 
>the minimal cost collection of ingredients that provide the RDA of every 
>nutrient for which an RDA has been published by the relevant 
>authorities. Stigler did it the first time, at which point I gather the 
>mathematical technique for doing it was something of a novelty. Probably 
>a lot easier now that we have computers readily available.

Based on youthful male metabolism, no doubt.  As a somewhat older female,
I'm officially supposed to ingest at least 3 8-oz cups of milk a day
for my minimum calcium requirements.  That listing above is insufficient 
nutrition for me.

=Tamar