# diet

- Page: https://shared.btbytes.com/p/diet
- Date: 2023-06-12
- Tags: diet

[Stigler diet - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler_diet) is an [optimization](http://web.archive.org/web/20090624144302/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimization_(mathematics) "Optimization (mathematics)") problem named for [George Stigler](http://web.archive.org/web/20050101/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stigler%20%22George%20Stigler%22), a 1982 Nobel laureate in economics, who posed the following problem:

> For a moderately active man weighing 154 pounds, how much of each of 77 foods should be eaten on a daily basis so that the man’s intake of nine nutrients will be at least equal to the [recommended dietary allowances](http://web.archive.org/web/20050101/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommended_dietary_allowance%20%22Recommended%20dietary%20allowance%22) (RDAs) suggested by the [National Research Council](http://web.archive.org/web/20170403050600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Research_Council_(United_States)) in 1943, with the cost of the diet being minimal?

via [this twitter discussion](https://x.com/0x1e96fc/status/1668115791366201344)