Not really but it goes to show that when it comes to food hard and fast rules do not apply. I agree that the big thing when it comes to health is excersize.

Brothers spurn veg for 424 years

David Ward
Tuesday June 6, 2006
The Guardian

Children: next time parents order you to eat your broccoli so that you will have a long and healthy life, don’t believe them.

If they press the point, contact the Campbell brothers of Aberdeen, who have lived to a collective age of 424 years and have almost never eaten peas (they fall off the fork), carrots (boring) or any other vegetables.

The Campbells - John, 91, Jim, 88, Colin, 85, Sid, 82, and Doug, 78 - are all fit and well despite having defied medical advice and spurned cabbage, beans and purple sprouting, let alone asparagus and mangetout. All except Colin have outlived their wives.

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At a recent get-together in Aberdeen, they suggested the cause of their longevity was their reluctance to swallow the five daily portions ministers now try hard to shove down the nation’s throat. “Vegetables are just too hard to eat,” said John. “They’re a pain. I’ve never liked them and I avoid them all the time. I can’t think of anything worse than a plate of carrots. I think as long as you are active it doesn’t matter what you eat.”

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