Elizabeth Holmes’ Diet Sounds Extremely…Unusual
Elizabeth Holmes' diet consists of salads, green juice, and occasionally spaghetti.
She maintains a vegan diet, and claims it gave her energy to sleep less and work more when working as CEO and founder of Theranos.
Holmes doesn't drink coffee, but occasionally eats chocolate-covered espresso beans for an energy boost.
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the defunct biotech company Theranos, is back in the headlines after a new documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, about her failed (and fraudulent) company aired on HBO. (And sparked controversy about if she purposely speaks in a super-low voice. Hmmm.)
Now, her super-boring (and super green) diet is being scrutinized as well.
According to a 2015 interview with Inc., Holmes followed a vegan diet during her time running Theranos, claiming that it gave her more energy and helped her sleep less. In one Fortune magazine interview, Holmes revealed she was working 16-hour days, 7 days a week—and only getting 4 hours of sleep every night. Yikes. The same article reported that a typical dinner for Holmes was a mixed salad with no dressing, and sometimes a bit of oil-free spaghetti with tomatoes.
Besides bland salads, her diet consisted mainly of green juices. In his book about Holmes titled Bad Blood, author John Carreyrou wrote that her go-to recipe was spinach, parsley, wheatgrass, celery and cucumber. According to The New York Times, Holmes never drank coffee (although she occasionally ate chocolate-covered coffee beans), and relied on her veggie juices to keep her going.
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While her diet sure was green, it probably wasn't that good for her overall health. While green juices are packed with tons of vitamins and nutrients, if that's all you're eating, you're missing out on crucial fiber from the veggies, and other elements of a healthy, balanced diet.
As Jaclyn London, RD, a senior dietician at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, previously told Women's Health: "You're also missing some of the other macronutrients, like protein and healthy fats, so you're not feeling satiated," she says. In other words, while your favorite green juice might pack beneficial antioxidants, it won't leave you feeling as full as if you'd noshed on an apple or celery stalks.
While a green juice is great on occasion, it sounds like Holmes could have used a little more substance to her diet.
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