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drachirREVERSEEACHPARTTOREPLY@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Richard Kennaway)
wrote:
> 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 The original calculations, long out of date, were in Stigler (1945).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?
I doubt it.
> 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.
I think a sliver a day, mixed into something else, sounds like the
preferable solution.
But then, I don't like beef liver.
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