Did Dr Pepper Make Her Live For 104 Years?

She is 104 years old. And Elizabeth Sullivan of Forth Worth, Texas, has a strange research conclusion up her sleeve. She has just one doctor to thank for her long life: Dr. Pepper, according to fox13now.

Even when she was in her '60s, Elizabeth Sullivan loved the soft drink's trademark "23 flavors". "Every doctor that sees me says they'll kill you, but they die and I don't. So there must be a mistake somewhere," she said.

She got a lovely and surprising gift for her 104th birthday. She was given a "Dr. Pepper-shaped caked and a gift basket" straight from the CEO of Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Inc., Larry Young.

"When you live to be 104 and still can talk to nice people, you deserve some Dr. Pepper, but I never expected this," she told KTVT.

Everyday she would drink three cans of the soda.

"Well at 103 I didn't think I'd make it, but I'm still perking along," Elizabeth Sullivan told CBSDFW.com.

One of his early slogans was: "Drink a bite to eat at 10, 2 and 4," so that she wouldn't feel the low energy that some felt hit them at 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.

To Elizabeth, the slogan was her day's mantra. She even drinks sodas in the morning. "People try to give me coffee for breakfast," she told the station. "Well, I'd rather have a Dr Pepper."

She got a cake shaped like a can of Dr Pepper and lots of soda, as well as a gift basket from Dr Pepper Snapple Group CEO, Larry Young.

She is retired, but the math teacher can still hobble around with a cane in her house at Fort Worth. She is popular in the Fort Worth community. She taught math at Paschal High School for 15 years, tutored football players for free, and is grateful everyday for what she has. "Man I'm feeling good. I'm glad I'm still here. I'm glad I'm not in a rest home. Glad I can read books and watch TV and have people come by and say hello," she said to cbslocal.

And last year, after she crossed 103 years, she said that she had presumed that people would want to die by the time they reached their 80s or 90s. Instead, she found that she had more fun after she became 90 years.

"I could play bridge when I wanted to, drive around when I wanted to, take trips to England or whatever I wanted to," she said.

At the time her medicine was just one pill a day. No one know how she consumed it, but she would be quite happy to down it with one of her daily three Peppers.