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CIA 1983: American and Soviet citizens eat about the same amount of food each day but the Soviet diet may be more nutritious. (lemmy.ml)

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The answer to misleading information about USSR had issues feeding its population. source : https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp84b00274r000300150009-5

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[–] peanuts4life@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Those numbers seem way high. I wonder if the individuals studied were soldiers. I would have a hard time eating 3500 calories in a day and I'm 6'2"

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

that's about 2 large sized big mac combos w refills from mcdonalds, it's only difficult if you're live somewhere without fast food or have your own dietary restrictions or your a observing jewish soviet russian living in siberia in the 1970's

[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it is very high. Other sources place intake a shade above 2500cal/day for their selected demographic. I really wonder where they're getting their data from.