20 cups of tea a day, cheeseburgers and starvation: weird diets of IT billionaires
'19.05.2021'
Source: Proman
20 cups of tea per day, one meal per day, burgers or fruit - the most influential and rich people in the technology industry are quite original in choosing their diet.
The presence of enormous wealth, allowing you to hire the best in the world of cooks and order the highest quality products, does not mean that billionaires adhere to a healthy diet, writes Proman with reference to Business Insider. Some of the richest people in the world have rather terrible, or strange, eating habits. And if someone is experimenting with the latest fads of a healthy lifestyle, such as veganism or a paleo diet, someone eats chocolate for breakfast or refuses to eat at all for a few days.
Therefore, if you decide to follow their example, it is far from a fact that such an approach will help you improve your health.
Richard Branson
The founder of the Virgin Group says he drinks 20 cups of tea a day.
“I don’t know if I could survive without an English breakfast and this drink,” the billionaire admitted. According to him, breakfast consists of fruit salad and muesli. From time to time he also eats herring.
Branson, who lives on his private Caribbean island of Necker, dies away his days for playing sports, business meetings and time spent with his family. Moreover, he usually sets up business meetings for lunch in order to “cheer up”. But Branson prefers supper in a large company. That is how, in his words, brilliant ideas are born.
Jeff Bezos
Amazon CEO admitted that he avoids morning meetings so he has time for a healthy breakfast without any “fatty convenience foods.” Bezos, quite modest in life, can sometimes surprise by eccentricity in food choices.
Once at a meeting regarding the acquisition of one of the companies, Jeff ordered a Mediterranean octopus for breakfast with potatoes, bacon, green garlic yogurt and poached egg.
“You are the octopus I eat for breakfast. When I look at the menu, you are a thing that I do not understand, a thing that I have never had. I have to get an octopus for breakfast, ”the billionaire joked.
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Bill Gates
The Microsoft founder loves Diet Coke so much that he drinks three or four cans a day. Other billionaire habits are no better. According to him, he drinks cocoa for breakfast, but often skips his morning meal altogether.
Gates also likes cheeseburgers. According to Managing Director of the Gates Foundation Joe Serrell, anyone who eats with Gates should expect cheeseburgers, “no matter who you are.”
“If Bill invited you to dinner, you will eat burgers. Someone will always be sent to McDonald's for them. "
Steve Jobs
Jobs was known for his strange eating habits. The co-founder of Apple sometimes ate only one or two foods for several weeks. At one point, his diet consisted entirely of carrots and apples. Sometimes he became a fruterian, eating only fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and cereals. Sometimes Jobs fasted, completely refusing to eat, in order to "create a feeling of euphoria and ecstasy."
Ilon Mask
A person who works from 80 to 90 hours a week, as Tesla's CEO, is hard to stick to a healthy diet. According to Mask, sometimes for breakfast, he eats a Mars protein bar - suitable food for someone who wants to get to the Red Planet.
His lunch is just as unimportant. According to Ilona, he compensates for this with lunches at business meetings. Musk said he loves French cuisine and barbecue.
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Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook CEO is usually not too picky about food. According to him, he will eat what he wants at the moment, because he does not like to waste time on "minor decisions". But this does not mean that Mark did not experiment with "wild" diets.
In the 2011 year, Zuckerberg, as is known, set himself a personal task - to eat meat only those animals that he killed himself. The “kill what you eat” diet included goats, pigs, chickens and lobsters. At the same time, Zuckerberg did not hesitate to share the "prey" with friends and guests. One day, he treated Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey with a goat that he himself had killed.
Jack Dorsey
He also dabbled in various trendy diets from a young age. He used to be a vegan, but too much beta-carotene (an orange pigment found in carrots) made his skin orange. In 2013, Dorsey kept to a paleo-diet.
I recently played with “fasting” for some time: I only had dinner for seven days, except for weekends, when he completely refused food. Now Jack is an ardent supporter of interval starvation, the most popular diet of Silicon Valley.
