Re: Food Checkout Week

David Friedman <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I happen to have a footnote in my forthcoming _Future Imperfect_ that
> provides both URL and the information you ask for:
> ---
> The original calculations, long out of date, were in Stigler (1945). A
> current version, for 1998 prices and RDA,  is described in Gass and 
> Garille (2001), webbed at
>
http://solstice.uwaterloo.ca/~phcalama/Courses/SD311/Project/Group18/Grou
> p18paper.pdf. "The updated problem shows that the optimal solution diet
> for a 25-50 year old man consists, on a daily basis, of 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. The daily cost of this diet is $1.78."

Has a test ever been made of such a diet, by having people live on it
for a suitably long period of time and monitoring their health?

BTW, where can you get 0.0108 ounces of beef liver?  Or if you can find
a butcher willing to sell you just 1/4 pound, do you keep it in the
freezer and chip off a sliver every day for a year?  Perhaps you just
have it for Christmas dinner.

-- 
Richard Kennaway