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Re: Stigler Diet

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Post by ha8o8le »

squarefoot wrote: post #59
ha8o8le wrote: post #53

I just did my own version of this diet with a nutrient-dense low-carb approach. Ground beef: $3.50/lb = $2.19/day Sardines: $9.99 for 6 - 4.375 oz = $1.67/can = $1.67/day Fresh spinach: $3.99/2.5 lb (.35 cents/g) = $.84/day Eggs: $7.99/ 5 dozen (13.3 cents/egg) = $.40/day Sunflower seeds: $2.49/lb = $.36/day Butter: $9.99 for 4lbs = $2.50/lb = $.12 cents/day Total cost: $5.58/day This is 1800 calories and is 65% fat,…

"Eggs: $7.99/ 5 dozen (13.3 cents/egg) = $.40/day" Wait, does that mean 3 eggs/day? That would be asking for troubles (cholesterol).

Dietary cholesterol is actually not bad - check out this article for a good overview https://chriskresser.com/the-diet-heart-myth-cholesterol-and...

Have been researching this for a long time. It was hard for me to believe at first, but the science is sound.

Re: Stigler Diet

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Post by hnzix »

ha8o8le wrote: post #61
squarefoot wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Eggs: $7.99/ 5 dozen (13.3 cents/egg) = $.40/day" Wait, does that mean 3 eggs/day? That would be asking for troubles (cholesterol).

Dietary cholesterol is actually not bad - check out this article for a good overview https://chriskresser.com/the-diet-heart-myth-cholesterol-and... Have been researching this for a long time. It was hard for me to believe at first, but the science is sound.

> It was hard for me to believe at first

Nina Teicholz has a lot to say about the garbage state of nutritional science, the AHA and just how much expensive taxpayer-funded research has been buried over the past 50 years.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_kEmYTiHtc

Re: Stigler Diet

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Post by bufferout »

ha8o8le wrote: post #53

I just did my own version of this diet with a nutrient-dense low-carb approach. Ground beef: $3.50/lb = $2.19/day Sardines: $9.99 for 6 - 4.375 oz = $1.67/can = $1.67/day Fresh spinach: $3.99/2.5 lb (.35 cents/g) = $.84/day Eggs: $7.99/ 5 dozen (13.3 cents/egg) = $.40/day Sunflower seeds: $2.49/lb = $.36/day Butter: $9.99 for 4lbs = $2.50/lb = $.12 cents/day Total cost: $5.58/day This is 1800 calories and is 65% fat,…

Vegetarian alternative possible?

Re: Stigler Diet

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Post by zeveb »

rflrob wrote: post #42
Kluny wrote: post #40

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Haha, the Stigler diet leaves out a couple of important items. Salt and yeast turn flour into bread, which is damn tasty. They're cheap, but not free, and should have been accounted for.

If you have a sourdough starter, then you don’t need to pay for yeast (though in my experience, I always end up pouring off excess starter, ie wasting flour).

It doesn't even need to be sourdough: you can make a starter for regular bread, too!

I mention this because I'm not typically a fan of the sourdough style, but I am a fan of starter-leavened bread.

Re: Stigler Diet

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Post by zeveb »

istorical wrote: post #7

If you were to blend the benefits of services like Soylent (nutritionally balanced meals) and BlueApron (delicious delivered recipes), you arrive at a service where you pick from a list of healthy ingredients and the service uses linear programming to build "solutions" aka recipes for meals that balance the ingredients such that they provide proper nutrition and then provide you with the list of ingredients to purcha…

I would love that, particularly if it let one set different preferences for different days (e.g. for Catholics fasting on Fridays).

It'd be awesome to mix in some machine learning to figure out new recipes one might like, too.

Re: Stigler Diet

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Post by ha8o8le »

bufferout wrote: post #63
ha8o8le wrote: post #53

I just did my own version of this diet with a nutrient-dense low-carb approach. Ground beef: $3.50/lb = $2.19/day Sardines: $9.99 for 6 - 4.375 oz = $1.67/can = $1.67/day Fresh spinach: $3.99/2.5 lb (.35 cents/g) = $.84/day Eggs: $7.99/ 5 dozen (13.3 cents/egg) = $.40/day Sunflower seeds: $2.49/lb = $.36/day Butter: $9.99 for 4lbs = $2.50/lb = $.12 cents/day Total cost: $5.58/day This is 1800 calories and is 65% fat,…

Vegetarian alternative possible?

I'm not a fan of a vegetarian diet because it leaves out the most nutrient dense foods.

I haven't done research into it specifically, but I would avoid carbs and sugar (and all processed foods), and eat a lot of avocado and protein from non-carby foods (beans and quinoa are ok, but still have a lot of carbohydrate).

Re: Stigler Diet

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Post by ha8o8le »

hnzix wrote: post #62
ha8o8le wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dietary cholesterol is actually not bad - check out this article for a good overview https://chriskresser.com/the-diet-heart-myth-cholesterol-and... Have been researching this for a long time. It was hard for me to believe at first, but the science is sound.

> It was hard for me to believe at first Nina Teicholz has a lot to say about the garbage state of nutritional science, the AHA and just how much expensive taxpayer-funded research has been buried over the past 50 years. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_kEmYTiHtc

I was being coy. I've read Nina's book and heavily researched all of this. I'm glad you and other people know about this stuff. Let's make this common knowledge!

Re: Stigler Diet

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Post by ha8o8le »

ha8o8le wrote: post #66
bufferout wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vegetarian alternative possible?

I'm not a fan of a vegetarian diet because it leaves out the most nutrient dense foods. I haven't done research into it specifically, but I would avoid carbs and sugar (and all processed foods), and eat a lot of avocado and protein from non-carby foods (beans and quinoa are ok, but still have a lot of carbohydrate).

google "vegetarian LCHF"

Re: Stigler Diet

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Post by ha8o8le »

ha8o8le wrote: post #53

I just did my own version of this diet with a nutrient-dense low-carb approach. Ground beef: $3.50/lb = $2.19/day Sardines: $9.99 for 6 - 4.375 oz = $1.67/can = $1.67/day Fresh spinach: $3.99/2.5 lb (.35 cents/g) = $.84/day Eggs: $7.99/ 5 dozen (13.3 cents/egg) = $.40/day Sunflower seeds: $2.49/lb = $.36/day Butter: $9.99 for 4lbs = $2.50/lb = $.12 cents/day Total cost: $5.58/day This is 1800 calories and is 65% fat,…

If anyone is trying to lose weight and wants to try this simple and cheap diet (or similar) I would love to document it for the film. Contact me at hi@foodlies.org

Re: Stigler Diet

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Post by racer-v »

CuriouslyC wrote: post #51
racer-v wrote: post #25

I created a diet optimized for maximum dietary fiber and protein with minimum calories (optimized separately). Highest fiber/calorie ratio is generally cruciferous vegetables; highest protein/calorie is fish and chicken (skinless boneless breast meat). Using these two food groups I can satisfy my macronutritional requirements on 600 calories/day. I add a multivitamin in case I missed anything. Based on these paramete…

Not all fiber is equivalent. The fiber in legumes tends to be highly fermentable, and provide far more in the way of health benefits than the fiber in vegetables such as broccoli. Lentils are pretty much nature's perfect food when considering cost, protein and fiber content. Additionally, lentils are low in methionine. I don't put much stock in methionine restriction for human longevity, it does work in rodents, so i…

> if you eat a lot of beans dietary cholesterol is actually beneficial

Interesting, I have found some references to beans lowering cholesterol but not this stronger statement?

I've read that the link from dietary cholesterol to body cholesterol levels is genetically variable, but that there's no test at present for determining individual risk factors.

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