Mayor Bloomberg call your office: Buffett calls anti-obesity focus on soda 'kind of silly'

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PUBLISHED MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2012 AT 7:01 AM / UPDATED AT 7:27 AM

Buffett calls anti-obesity focus on soda 'kind of silly'

Warren Buffett usually consumes 60 ounces Cherry Coke a day. Sometimes he eats ice cream for breakfast, loves red meat and believes the menu at Dairy Queen — a wholly owned Berkshire subsidiary — is healthy, too.

So when he saw New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg last summer at a conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, he made a nutrition point.

Bloomberg was pushing an anti-obesity measure to ban New York eateries from serving sodas larger than 16 ounces, an idea that Buffett called "kind of silly" in a recent CNBC interview. The calories in Coca-Cola — a company of which Berkshire is the biggest shareholder — are OK to include in a balanced diet, Buffett said.