Linear Programming 4: Example application - Healthy diet

Linear Programming 4: Example application - Healthy diet

Abstract: We show how to setup a linear program to model how to choose a healthy but affordable diet. The healthy diet problem is sometimes considered the "hello world" linear programming problem, in the sense that it is often an application that students see first.

This video accompanies the class "Linear Programming and Network Flows" at Colorado State University

We are following the book "Understanding and Using Linear Programming" by Jiří Matoušek and Bernd Gärtner

Our course notes are available at

[samyud]

I just wanted to find a way to optimize my diet “database” but now I’ve been introduced to linear programming :)