Not the Healthiest: What Do Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, Some of the World’s Brightest Minds, Eat?

Healthy eating is something that has been gaining a lot of ground in recent times and it seems that society is more aware of what it consumes, and the consequences that this could have on the body and the performance of the organism.

The desire to take care of the mind, keep it active and in tune with physical activity means that, with each passing day, people improve their eating habits and include products in their diets that were not taken into account before; however, This has not always been the case and as an example, there are some of the great businessmen in the world, especially the protagonists of the technological field, who have not been characterized by having the best diets.

For a start there is the co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, who in different interviews has revealed that he is a fan of Diet Coke and that he drinks between 3 and 4 cans a day. “All those cans also add up to something like 16 kilos of aluminum a year,” Gates said in 2014.

The Michelin star chef, Jordi Cruz confirmed the mogul’s fondness for this drink, Well, he revealed that, in 2023, the genius behind Windows booked his restaurant for two days and only ordered one of those sodas.

Another of Gates’ favorite foods are cheeseburgers and the sugary drink Tang, an orange-flavored powdered substance that must be diluted in water to be consumed.

“I bought a bottle of Tang, which is a [mezcla] of orange sugary drink they took to the moon as you know, instead of going to meals, I just poured orange Tang on my hand and licked it while I worked”, was the testimony of Gates in the Netflix series Inside Bill’s Brain.

Another of those who is not characterized by having good eating habits is the owner of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter, Elon Musk. The controversial businessman has pointed out on several occasions that if he had to stop eating to be able to work more, he would do it, something quite extreme, but that is not surprising when dealing with a character like Musk.

This tycoon’s breakfast involves a daily donut and coffee, so much so that in 2020 he told Joe Rogan that he would rather “eat tasty food and live a shorter life”; likewise, lunch does not seem to be important to him, as he has pointed out that whatever his assistant gives him he “inhales in five minutes”. His fondness for Diet Coke has also been evident in several of his Twitter posts.

For his part, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in 2011 that he followed a strict diet in which he only ate what he himself had killed. The owner of Facebook ate, according to his own rules, goats, pigs, chickens and lobsters.

The rigorous diet that Steve Jobs followed

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who passed away in October 2011, is considered one of the brightest minds of recent times, for having invented the iPhone and for having shared, on different occasions, his thoughts on innovation, development and technology.

Today, Apple is the most valued company in the world, and much of its success is due to the values ​​it Steve Jobs imprinted on him since its foundation, which is why the man born in San Francisco, California, has become a mentor for new generations.

Regarding his diet, several researchers managed to find that the genius based his diet on fruits, since he considered that the intake of these foods had great power to clarify his thoughts and improve his ideas throughout the day.

A study to which they linked the quality of Jobs’ diet showed that the consumption of orange juice with added tyrosine helped people to have a more critical development of situations and gave as an example the agility to solve puzzles.

Likewise, the genius behind Apple assured on several occasions that he was a vegetarian and that he favored dark vegetables, asparagus and broccoli. According to some portals that have been dedicated to investigating the diet of the genius, they found that he fasted periodically and that sometimes he only ate a couple of foods throughout the week.

Also, it could be concluded that the apple, a fruit that acts as the logo of the brand created by Jobs, It was one of his favorites, which is why he used it to name his own brand of computers.

Carrots with lemon were also part of his diet and when he was diagnosed with cancer, those who were close to him indicate that he used to order various fruit shakes, avoiding solid foods.