A great-grandma says she's drank nothing but Pepsi every day for the past 60 years.
Pepsi-obsessed Jackie Page, 77, starts every morning with a cold can of the fizzy pop straight from the fridge, drinking up to four of them a day.
The fizzy cola has been Jackie's beverage of choice ever since she cracked open her first can aged 13, and she's never grown tired of the way Pepsi tastes as it's the only drink she likes.
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Jackie has sipped her way through an estimated 93,440 cans of Pepsi in her lifetime, which is the equivalent of nearly 3,000kg of sugar or 3 million sugar cubes.
But the great-grandma of eight from Carshalton, Surrey, says she has always been fit and healthy. Jackie doesn't believe she's addicted to Pepsi either.
"Some people might think it's weird but I don't care. I've been drinking it every single day since 1954," Jackie said. "I don't call it an addiction. It's just something I like and I can't help it if I don't like anything else.
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"I don't like it from a bottle, only from a can. I like to drink Pepsi fresh straight from the can, and it has to be cold."
She added: "Whether I am a caffeine addict or not I don't know, but I am 77 years old and I have survived so far."
Explaining her morning routine, Jackie continued: "I have one as soon as I wake up each day straight from the fridge. It's like when someone says they want to drink a lovely cup of tea first thing in the morning, I drink up a lovely can of Pepsi.
"I don't like to drink alcohol so I order Pepsi when we go out for dinner too.
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"At a push at restaurants I will go without a drink altogether, or I will pull out a can of Pepsi from my bag. Sometimes they get a bit funny about it because I didn't buy it there."
Jackie went on to say that she doesn't think that the amount of Pepsi she's drank has affected her health.
"They say Pepsi is bad for your teeth but I am a war time baby and there's not many of us without rotten teeth so I wouldn't know," she said.
"We didn't have much toothpaste during the war because it was rationed. I wouldn't go to the dentist when I was a kid either. I was too scared.
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"I don't think Pepsi has affected my health either. I have always been really, really slim until about five years ago but I think that's because I don't do much now. I am not as active as I was."
She added: "Nowadays people say you shouldn't drink Pepsi but I say it's my choice what I want to drink. I just know what I like and I won't settle for anything else."
Jackie has never been interested in glasses of water or milk, and found the smell of tea and coffee 'revolting'. She used to sip on lemonade but says she never enjoyed drinking until she tried her first Pepsi, which was served in glass bottles at the time.
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Retired housekeeper Jackie said: "My mum used to say, 'You have to drink something'. I know my mum used to give me lemonade or cherryade.
"When I was drinking, I wouldn't drink to enjoy it. Until I drank Pepsi, drinking was just something I put up with.
"I have never drank water - no way [even] if I [was] dying would I. [Nor would I] drink tea or coffee.I know it's hard to believe.
"Coke would never get in my house. I didn't like Coca Cola. I don't like cola drinks in general. But I like Pepsi."
Jackie loves the pop so much that she even named her late Yorkshire Terrier 'Pepsi' after her favourite beverage.
"My drinking habits might be strange to outsiders but to my family it is normal," explained the grandmother. "Nobody ever asks about it - my family just know I'll want Pepsi. If I go and stay with one of my children I know that there will be a few cans of Pepsi in the fridge for me."
Jackie ensures she has several cases of Pepsi stashed away in her home so she'll never risk running out.
Nicole Rothband, a specialist dietician and spokesperson for the British Dietetic Association, said: "The main concerns are that drinking that much Pepsi would increase the risk of obesity, affect the teeth and increase the risk of diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
"If a person became overweight they may also have high blood pressure which increases the risk of stroke.
"However, it depends on a person's overall lifestyle as regular physical activity and eating a relatively healthy diet could counteract these factors.
"Drinking four cans of sugary drink on its own, while I wouldn't recommend it, might not have a massive impact if the rest of the diet and the overall lifestyle is relatively healthy.
"But if it is combined with a sedentary lifestyle and a diet that is also high in fats and sugars and low in fibre and fruits and vegetables then it is likely to have quite a significant impact on that person."
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