This 104-Year-Old Woman Says Dr Pepper Is What's Keeping Her Alive (2024)

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This 104-Year-Old Woman Says Dr Pepper Is What's Keeping Her Alive? ›

But for Elizabeth Sullivan, a Texas woman who just turned 104, the secret to longevity is Dr Pepper. She's been drinking three cans a day for about 40 years, she told Forth Worth's CBS affiliate. “Every doctor that sees me says they'll kill you, but they die and I don't,” she says.

Elizabeth Sullivan did a bunch of interviews telling her secret to living a long and happy life before her death at the age of 106 in 2017. Sullivan, from Fort Worth, Texas, credited the popular Dr Pepper soda for her long lifespan after celebrating her 104th birthday in 2015.

2000: "Dr Pepper, It Makes the World Taste Better." 2000–Present: "Just What The Dr Ordered." 2002–2004: "Be You." 2005–Present: "One Taste & You Get It."

It wasn't until the creation of root beer in 1876 that soda began to evolve into a drink option. Cola flavored soda entered the market shortly after in 1881. Dr Pepper was created in 1885 and believed to be the first soda as we know it today followed by Coca-Cola one year later.

No scientific evidence suggests that either Dr. Pepper or co*ke has any significant health benefits. While both drinks contain caffeine, which can provide a temporary energy boost, many healthier sources of caffeine do not come with the negative health consequences of sugary drinks.

Donna Loren was a popular actress, singer, spokesperson and fashion icon during the sixties. She was the face of Dr Pepper, starred in several teen beach party films and was a guest star on the biggest shows during that era. Who is she?

DR PEPPER IS THE OLDEST MAJOR SOFT DRINK IN AMERICA.

Wade Morrison, the drug store owner, named it "Dr. Pepper" after Dr. Charles Pepper, a Virginia doctor who was the father of a girl Morrison was once in love with. (The period after Dr was dropped in the 1950s.)

Vernor's boasts the oldest soda in America, but not the world. That belongs to Schweppe's, who created a carbonated mineral water in 1783. Other old sodas include Hires Root Beer (1876), Moxie 1876, Dr. Pepper (1885) Coca-Cola (1886) and Pepsi (1893.

Pepper married her first husband, Arthur "Art" Skolnik, but the pair separated in 2003; born in 1944, Art's obituary states he passed away in 2020 from ALS. While Pepper keeps her personal life vague, she dished about her relationship with her second husband, Fred Kaseburg, to AARP in 2015.

Which came first, co*ke or Dr Pepper? ›

Dr Pepper is the oldest soft drink in America. Older than Coca-Cola, in fact, by a full year. It was created in 1885 by a pharmacist, Charles Alderton, in Waco, Texas. And its original name was Waco – it was served there at the soda fountain in the drugstore.

Pepper was a physician and surgeon during the American Civil War. To win the approval of her father, Morrison named the small town-famous drink after the doctor, although he had nothing to do with the drink's conception.

All sodas are essentially bad for you. There might be small differences in the amount of sugar, calories, or caffeine between the two, but if you're trying to be healthy, cutting out soda altogether is the way to go. Even diet soda carries its own potential health risks.

All in all, 46% of soft drink drinkers in the United States use Dr Pepper. That means, of the 92% who know the brand, 50% use them.

And the truth is Dr Pepper is caffeinated. It's among the caffeinated soft drinks used as energy drinks to refresh our bodies. The only difference is that Dr Pepper's caffeine content is lower than most other caffeinated beverages. Generally, carbonated beverages contain caffeine.

This statistic shows the sales volume of soft drink brands of the Keurig Dr Pepper Group in the United States in 2022. The Keurig Dr Pepper Group's soft drink brand Dr Pepper had the highest volume sales in the U.S. in 2022 at around 632 million 192-ounce cases.