A great-grandmother has revealed for the past 64 years she has drunk nothing other than four cans of Pepsi a day.

Jackie Page, 77, has kept up her liquid diet of four cans of the fizzy pop each day since 1954, when she turned 13.

Despite consuming the equivalent of three million sugar cubes, the mother-of-four insists she has always been slim, fit and healthy.

Jackie Page, 77, from Carlsharlton, Surrey has kept up her liquid diet of four cans of Pepsi each day since 1954, when she turned 13. That's the equivalent of three million sugar cubes

'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,' the retired housekeeper told the said.

Most unusually, Ms Page will only drink Pepsi from a can, not a bottle, and she hates Coca-Cola and won't allow it in her house.

Ms Page, from Carshalton, Surrey, said: 'Some people might think it's weird but I don't care. I've been drinking it every single day since 1954.

'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.

'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.

'While my kids were young they knew not to take mum's Pepsi out of the fridge.

Despite consuming the equivalent of three million sugar cubes, the mother-of-four insists she has always been slim, fit and healthy

'We would tell them it was bad for you so they wouldn't drink it, but as they have all seen how healthy I am and how long I have lived I can't really talk now.

'Whether I am a caffeine addict or not I don't know, but I am 77 years old and I have survived so far.

'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.

'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.

'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.

Ms Page was never interested in the glasses of water or bottles of milk her mum tried to give her, and found the smell of tea and coffee 'revolting'.

'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.

'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.

'Right up until I was 60 I was still doing line dancing and I was pretty fit, but I can't get out to do that now.

'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.'

Ms Page was never interested in the glasses of water or bottles of milk her mum tried to give her, and found the smell of tea and coffee 'revolting'.

She said: '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 used to sip on lemonade but claims she never enjoyed the drink - until she tried her first Pepsi, which was served in glass bottles at the time.

Retired housekeeper Ms Page said: 'When you find something you know you really like, you have to have it. I never liked drinking very much when I was a kid.

'I didn't take milk as a baby and it was hard for my mum to find stuff for me to drink because I didn't like water or milk.

'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.

'I have always been the same. I didn't like to drink until I found Pepsi and then that was it.

'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. I have always been the same. I didn't like to drink until I found Pepsi and then that was it,' the mother-of-four said

'I don't remember the first time I drank it but I do know I knew I had found something I really liked.

'Most of my friends [at the time] were drinking Coca Cola. We were going to coffee bars and they'd drink Coca Cola and I'd drink Pepsi.

'One coffee bar opened up where I lived in the middle of the 1950s and it was lovely. They had Pepsi there in glass bottles which I would have.

'Then when the cans of Pepsi came out I liked it much more and I didn't want to drink it from a bottle anymore.

Ms Page loves Pepsi so much that she went without drinking while she was in hospital giving birth to her four children because she wasn't allowed to bring Pepsi into the ward

'I don't know what the difference is between the bottles and the cans but to me it tastes better from a can. PepsiCo will say it's exactly the same.

'However, if I'm out and I get served Pepsi from a glass bottle it's not too bad, but if it's a plastic bottle of Pepsi I don't like it at all.

'When I drink my cans of Pepsi, I drink it from the actual can. I would never pour it into an actual glass unless I was at a restaurant.

'Back in the day it was rude to drink it straight from a can but now people do it all the time and it's more accepted.'

Ms Page loves Pepsi so much that she went without drinking while she was in hospital giving birth to her four children because she wasn't allowed to bring Pepsi into the ward.

But when she was in hospital in later life, the hospital stashed her cans of Pepsi in a fridge to make sure she didn't get dehydrated.

But when she was in hospital in later life, the hospital stashed her cans of Pepsi in a fridge to make sure she didn't get dehydrated

Ms Page said: 'I've never gone off Pepsi. When I was in hospital in the 1960s during my four pregnancies they wouldn't let me have it in with me so I had to go without.

'But I've been to hospital since for some major operations and I was allowed to have it there.

'The hospital, much to their disgust, even allowed me to keep my Pepsi in the kitchen fridge because I wouldn't drink anything else.

'My kids used to come up to visit me in hospital with supplies of Pepsi so that I stayed hydrated.

'I wouldn't be surprised if it was in my hospital notes somewhere - 'must drink Pepsi or won't drink at all'.

'I have never drank water - and even if I was dying [of thirst] no way would I.

'I don't like tea or coffee. I don't like Coca Cola.. I do taste the difference between Pepsi and Coca Cola. I think I would die if I had to drink a glass of milk.

'I wouldn't ever kiss my mum because she always smelt of tea. I have never drunk anything else other than Pepsi.

'To be honest, I don't know how I have lived so long.'

Luckily Ms Page's family are supportive of her drinking habits and make sure that she always has a plentiful supply of the cans to drink when she comes to stay.

Her eight great-grandchildren and 11 grandchildren also know to keep their hands off their nan's Pepsi.

She even named her birthday gift of a tiny Yorkshire terrier after her favourite drink, Pepsi, in 1990 before the dog sadly passed away at the age of 18.

Ms Page said: 'My drinking habits might be strange to outsiders but to my family it is normal.

'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.

'They all take me for what I am, and the kids know that if nan is coming they can't touch the Pepsi.

'When my children were little they used to buy me a Pepsi magnet or something Pepsi themed as a gift.

'It would worry me a lot if I couldn't get cans of Pepsi because I don't know what I'd drink.

'I have a lot of my food delivered and there was one day where they said they didn't have any cans of Pepsi in and I had to have my daughters to run out and get me some in the supermarket.

'So far I have not reached the point where I can't get Pepsi. I always have several cases of cans ready in the house.

'If I had to drink something else I would probably drink fresh orange juice, but I wouldn't drink much and it wouldn't be for taste.

'My kids always say we should have had shares in PepsiCo.'

PepsiCo were contacted for comment.