Microsoft Vs. Apple: forget business! Whose CEO eats the healthiest?

It’s no secret that the wealthy tend to eat healthier, higher quality food than the rest of us. In an absurd twist on pretty much all of history, it’s the poorest people in America that are the fattest. So what do the famous megarich nerds eat?

Hehee I love that this picture exists

Bill Gates
I couldn't find as much information on Bill Gates as I hoped. I was hoping he would be a vegetarian or something interesting (well, I found out he was for awhile). Apparently he likes Diet Orange Crush a lot as well as other diet sodas. He’s been seen drinking Diet Coke a lot. That will be a good comeback next time someone bothers me for drinking diet soda. Bill Gates does it!

There's also a 60 Minutes interview where he was interviewed at a fast food place, McDonalds I think. In a 1994 Playboy interview, he talks about eating at McDonalds and Jack-In-the-Box and being a vegetarian for three years:

I eat at McDonald's more than most people, but that's because I don't cook.

You're back to eating meat?


Yes. That was only a three-year period when I was proving to myself I could do it. But in terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.

Jack-in-the-Box? McDonald's?


Well, McDonald's is more pervasive around here. We also have Jack-in-the-Box. I'm not the kind of guy who decides that just because a few people got sick, it's necessarily going to happen to me. It wasn't very crowded for a while, but I thought that was fine.

I wonder why he stopped being vegetarian - and why it took three years to prove to himself that he could go without meat?




Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs is a lot more interesting. I got the idea for this article when I found out that Steve Jobs was a fruititarian back when Apple got started; and no, it's not a coincidence that Apple is called Apple. Apples were his favorite fruit. It’s odd that he was a fruititarian back then.. I don’t think vegetarianism was even that popular back then, much less veganism, raw foodism, etc. I wonder why he ate mostly fruit?

According to wikipedia, right now he is a pescetarian, meaning the only meat he eats is fish.

It's funny though - we could all be carrying around Mango iPods, or Kiwi iPhones right now..!