Billionaire Warren Buffett Says His Diet Is Like a Six-Year Old's, and His Body Is "One Quarter Coca-Cola"

You'll be happy to know that Buffett is definitely not a health nut.
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Warren Buffett, chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway, drinks a Cherry Coca-Cola as he tours the exhibition floor prior to the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S., on Saturday, May 1, 2010. Buffett, the Wall Street critic who invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs Group Inc., said he supports the bank's Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein '100 percent' after the firm was sued by regulators for fraud. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Warren Buffett, chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway, drinks a Cherry Coca-Cola as he tours the exhibition floor prior to the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S., on Saturday, May 1, 2010. Buffett, the Wall Street critic who invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs Group Inc., said he supports the bank's Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein '100 percent' after the firm was sued by regulators for fraud. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor and philanthropist, recently told Fortune magazine a little about the diet portion of his formula for success.

You'll be happy to know that Buffett is definitely not a health nut.

In fact, the 84-year-old business magnate says that he chose quite deliberately, based on data from actuarial tables, to "eat like a six-year-old."

That includes at least five 12-ounce servings of Coca-Cola a day ("If I eat 2,700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola"), which he loves to pair with Utz Potato Stix and chocolate ice cream.

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Photo Credit: Coca-Cola/Utz
All of these, according to Buffett, are fair game for breakfast.

At work, Buffett drinks regular Coke to fuel his day at his Berkshire Hathaway headquarters. While in the comfort of his home, he turns to Cherry Coke as a treat.

"It's the safest course I can take," Buffett said of his diet.

-Karen Lo, The Daily Meal

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