Eating Like a Six-year-old

I often joke that when I’m finished with my meal in a casual restaurant, it looks like a toddler has been eating off the plate.  

I’m very picky about which buns I will consume, I don’t like onions or floppy pickles and if there are green peppers in there anywhere, well, those little devil droppings will get pushed to the side.

But billionaire Warren Buffett beats me at the childlike eating game. While my restaurant remnants pile up by chance, he maintains the secret to staying youthful is eating what six-year-olds eat. The 84-year-old told Fortune Magazine, “I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.”

What does a typical six-year-old eat? A lot, apparently, because Buffett claims he’s averaging 2,700 calories a day. Buffett says one-quarter of his diet consists of drinking Coca-Cola. Buffett holds $16-billion in Coca-Cola stock and claims to drink five, 12-ounce servings of pop daily. Breakfast is either a container of potato stix with a Coke or chocolate-chip ice cream or something else that’s high-fat and high sugar, and he maintains that type of eating plan all day, every day.

Buffett may claim it’s the diet of a six-year-old but it’s actually the diet of an unsupervised six-year-old! No parent in their right mind would allow a growing body to subsist on this junk diet alone. My theory is at 84, with more money than any one person needs, he’s just saying, screw-it and eating whatever he wants whenever he wants. A six-year-old who lived on potato stix, ice cream and Coke might not have 84 years to look forward to.