Amaya Toman Steve Jobs was a man who was not afraid to go to extremes in many ways. This also concerned his approach to food, in which he often resorted to not very traditional forms of veganism and vegetarianism. For most of his life, Steve Jobs was a vegetarian, he ate rather sparingly and simply, and he was very picky, as many a waiter or chef who had ever dealt with the Apple co-founder could tell.
While in college, Jobs discovered a book called "Diet for a Small Planet," which played a significant role in his decision to eliminate meat from his diet. Later, he began to try even more extreme ways of eating, including cleansing and fasting, during which he was able to subsist for weeks on nothing but apples or carrots. But a large part of his college menu was also made up of cereals, dates, almonds... and literally kilograms of carrots, from which he also made fresh juice.
Another book "Muscusless Diet Healing System" by Arnold Ehret inspired Jobs to go on an even stricter diet, after reading which he decided to eliminate bread, cereals and milk from his diet. He also took a liking to two-day to week-long fasts, punctuated by the occasional consumption of leafy vegetables.
From time to time, Jobs retreated to the All One Farm community for the weekend, where he indulged in abundant portions of vegetables and fruits. The community was frequented by members of the Hare Krishna movement, whose food Steve also liked. Jobs' partner at the time, Chrisann Brennan, was also a vegetarian, but her diet was not so strict - their daughter Lisa once mentioned an incident when Jobs angrily spat out the soup after discovering that it contained butter.
In 1991, Jobs married Laurene Powell, who is a vegan. Their wedding cake did not contain any ingredients of animal origin, and as a result many guests found it inedible. Laurene has worked in the field of vegan gastronomy for a long time.
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In 2003, doctors diagnosed Jobs with a rare form of pancreatic cancer and recommended surgery, but he decided to cure himself by following a strict vegan diet, including plenty of carrots and fruit juices. Five years later, he underwent the operation after all, but his physical condition had significantly deteriorated in the meantime. However, his fondness for carrots never left him, he sometimes enriched his menu with lemongrass soup or plain pasta with basil.
While at the beginning of 2011, Steve Jobs was helping to plan a dinner for the then American president in Silicon Valley, in June of the same year, unfortunately, he was practically unable to take solid food. Steve Jobs died in October 2011 surrounded by his family and loved ones.
Source: Business Insider
Well, at least we know why he ended up the way he did
It was of no use to him. Perhaps, on the contrary, the idiotic diet weakened the immune system so much that it was then unable to face the disease.
All this indicates that he was not a genius, but a severely mentally ill person.
Money spoils character and health...
and cancer knocked him down anyway, even though he kept such diets... you can see that sometimes it sucks
Dear members. Steve jobs. A person who had a choice. He chose the other side of the shore, perhaps a shore similar to San Francisco. But who knows where. I would see him in a new life in some catacombs as a recluse of some secret that he took with him of course, after all he himself was like the tsunami wave.
I think SJ is proof negative of the extreme - he lived so healthy that he died of it. Carrots, for example, are a significant source of vitamin D, which is harmful to the body in excess, it is soluble only in fats, which could also be a problem for vegetarians. I don't want to judge or prejudge, but if one uses common sense, eats foods appropriate to one's taste, one's health and historical background, one will only benefit one's health and reduce the risk of civilization diseases
Not 5 years, but 9 months. Quite a major mistake and then people are discussing nonsense here.
When Jobs found out he had cancer in October 2003, he reportedly first tried a vegan diet, acupuncture, herbal medicine, and other alternative treatments he learned about on the Internet. He only decided on a more conservative procedure, i.e. surgery, in July 2004."
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bitch, eat only carrots and apples...tons of fructose, I'm not even surprised by the pancreas...you could have expected it to turn out like this...a person is not built for only carrots and lemons and apples or only meat...but who is as dull as an empty shell from a cannon, let skape ... interesting that LSD didn't smell on him .. otherwise he was a genius but every genius is a bit of a fool