Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Brothers spurn veg for 424 years
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Brothers spurn veg for 424 years
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.
