Bizarre eating habits of extremely successful people (12 Photos)

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Steve Jobs would only eat one type of food, such as carrots or apples, for weeks at a time. He reportedly ate so many carrots at one time that his skin turned orange.

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Nicolas Cage only consumes animals that he judges as mating in a ‘dignified way.’ He explained himself, saying “I actually choose the way I eat according to the way animals have sex. I think fish are very dignified with sex. So are birds. But pigs, not so much. So I don’t eat pig meat or things like that.”

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Author Stephen King always eats a slice of cheesecake before he sits down to write.

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According to Beethoven, only a cook with a pure heart could prepare a pure soup. One of his favorite dishes was a mushy bread soup with 10 large eggs stirred in that he ate every Thursday. He inspected the eggs himself by holding them to the light and cracking them open with his hand. If the eggs weren’t fresh, Beethoven would call in his housekeeper and pelt her with them.

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Charles Darwin was so intrigued by the animals he discovered, that he ate most of them. These included iguanas, armadillos, giant tortoises and owls.

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Benito Mussolini believed that eating was an activity which you had to devote your complete attention to, and you should not eat in front of others. After being diagnosed with a stomach ulcer, his new diet consisted of fruit and up to a gallon of milk a day.

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President Gerald Ford ate cottage cheese covered in A-1 sauce and ketchup everyday for lunch.

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Henry Ford considered his body a machine and thought of eating as merely a practical activity. He experimented with eating wild weeds, collecting them from random places outside. They were usually lightly boiled or stewed, and he would eat them on sandwiches.

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Hugh Hefner only eats meals from his personal chef at the Playboy mansion, even when he takes ladies out to restaurants. He says “[The models] pick from the menu,but I have lamb chops and a baked potato sent in from the mansion, so [my meal] is set.”

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Kim Jong-il established an institute of top doctors and scientists to design a diet meant to increase his lifespan. They began inspecting every grain of his rice by hand to make sure it was perfectly shaped, and Kim insisted the rice be cooked over a wood fire using trees cut from Mount Paektu, a legendary mountain on the border of China.

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in 2011, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said “The only meat I’m eating is from animals I’ve killed myself.” After announcing this on his private page, he also posted “I just killed a pig and a goat.” His hunting trend ended after a year.

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Howard Hughes suffered from OCD, and this showed in his eating habits. He always gave bizarre instructions to his servants, including the way they opened cans of food. He also ate a regimented menu, usually a medium-rare butterfly steak with 12 peas of the same size. If any of the peas were too big, he sent them back.