At the age of 88, the investor and billionaire Warren Buffett still regularly drinks 5 cans of Coca per day. However, few people know that due to an unexpected reason from the neighbor has made him switch from drinking Pepsi to Coca after 50 years.
Billions of minutes Warren Buffett is well known as a person loving to drink soda – he often drinks 5 cans of Coca a day even at the age of 88. However, few people know that he has been “addicted” to Pepsi for nearly 50 years before and only converted his favor to Coca after a neighbor commented.
This interesting information is shared in the book: “The Deals of Warren Buffett Volume 2”: The Making of a Billionaire by Glen Arnold’s and in his reveal “I’m one quarter Coca-Cola” with Fortune magazine in 2015.
According to Businessinsider, the talented 88-year-old investor admits that this carbonated drink accounts for 25% of his daily calories. He said that if his daily calorie intake was 2700 calories, a quarter of that would be Coca-Cola.
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A 12-ounce can of Coke contains 140 calories. Normally, Buffett said, “I use 3 cans during the day and 2 cans at night.”
When he worked at Berkshire Hathaway’s headquarters in Omaha, he drank Coca regularly; At home, he also uses Cherry Coke.
The secret to keep my health is that “I eat like a 6-years-old child” – said Warren Buffett
This little taste explains, one of the usual breakfast, he likes to drink Coca with potato sticks. He held the potato packaging in his hand and said that he had talked to Utz management about the possibility of buying the potato company.
This morning, I ate a bowl of chocolate chip ice cream, Buffett said.
When asked to explain why he maintained a high-salt, high-salt diet, but he still looked healthy, Buffett replied:
“I looked closely at the surveys and found that the lowest death rate was in kids at the ages of 6 years old. So I decided to” eat like a 6 year old child. “he added,” It is the safest course I can take. ”
The reason behind this billionaire’s diet is because he believes it is the healthiest way to live.
In an interview with the New Yorker in 2012, the billionaire also ate a hamburger, fries and ordered vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup for dessert.
He said: “What I like to eat today is the same as what I like to eat 50 years ago … I did not increase many new habits. I was very happy when I was in 20s, and I don’t see I need to change everything now. ”
The secret to keep healthy maybe due to genes, or it may be due to the joy of enjoying life
Now, not only does the habit of drinking 5 cans of Coca a day, billionaire Buffett also has the habit of eating McDonald’s fried chicken balls about 3 times a week and using Dairy Queen ice cream for dessert. Another notable thing is that he eats quite salty when regularly sprinkling salt on almost every dish.
Despite the criticism, Buffett said that it was a diet high in sugar and a lot of salt that helped him to have a good health as currently.
Sharing with the Financial Times, he said: “I don’t mind bothering to think about my death.” His implication was that although he was not young and his eating habits were unhealthy, he still got out of bed every morning to go to work and had no plans to retire. Buffett also humorously says that the lowest death rate is in a 6-year-old child so he decided to eat like a 6-year-old child. That’s his tip to live healthy & longer!
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