High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Stigler Diet is an optimization problem named for George Stigler, 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 (RDSs) suggested by the National Research Council in 1943, with the cost of the diet being minimal? The nutrient RDAs required to be met in Stigler's experiment were calories, protein, calcium, iron, vitamin A, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, and ascorbic acid. The result was an annual budget allocated to foods such as evaporated milk, cabbage, dried navy beans, and beef liver at a cost of approximately $0.11 a day in 1939 U.S. Dollars.