How does the world’s top investor, at 84 years old, wake up every day and face the world with boundless energy?

    “I’m one quarter Coca-Cola,” Warren Buffett says.

    When he told me this in a phone call yesterday (we were talking about the death of his friend, former), I assumed he was talking about his stock portfolio.

    No, Buffett explained, “If I eat 2700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola. I drink at least five 12-ounce servings. I do it everyday.”

    Perhaps only a man who owns $16 billion in Coca-Cola stock—9% of Coke, through his company, Berkshire Hathaway—would maintain such an odd daily diet. One 12-ounce can of Coke contains 140 calories. Typically, Buffett says, “I have three Cokes during the day and two at night.”

    When he’s at his desk at Berkshire Hathaway headquarters in Omaha, he drinks regular Coke; at home, he treats himself to Cherry Coke.

    “I’ll have one at breakfast,” he explains, noting that he loves to drink Coke with potato sticks. What brand of potato sticks? “I have a can right here,” he says. “U-T-Z” Utz is a Hanover, Pennsylvania-based snack maker. Buffett says that he’s talked to Utz management about potentially buying the company.

    Investors in Berkshire Hathaway may feel relieved that the CEO isn’t addicted to Utz Potato Stix at every breakfast. “This morning, I had a bowl of chocolate chip ice cream,” Buffett says.

    他解释道：“我早餐时会喝一罐，”并表示他喜欢配上薯条吃。哪个品牌的薯条？他说：“我手头上就有一罐UTZ薯条。”UTZ是一家位于宾州汉诺威市的零食公司。巴菲特说，他曾和UTZ的管理层商谈过收购这家公司的可能性。

    令公司投资人感到欣慰的是，巴菲特并非每顿早餐都对UTZ的薯条上瘾。他说：“今天早上，我吃了一碗巧克力冰淇淋。”

    Asked to explain the high-sugar, high-salt diet that has somehow enabled him to remain seemingly healthy, Buffett replies: “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.” The octogenarian adds, “It’s the safest course I can take.”

    当被问到高糖高盐的饮食为什么能让他看起来很健康的时候，巴菲特答道：“我查过死亡率统计表，死亡率最低的是六岁儿童。所以我决定仿照六岁孩童的饮食习惯。”这位八旬老人补充道：“这样做再安全不过了。”（财富中文网）

    译者：朴成奎

    审校：任文科