No shit, like Steve Larsen among, probably handfuls or thousands of others..Steve was the called the Michael Jordan of Triathlon's. Dude was the US Mountain Biking Champ at one point, trained and rode with Lance Fagstrong in France and Europe during the Tours and then became a triathlete and killed it in Hawaii on numerous occasions.
Dude was 39, out on a training run at the new high school's track in town and had a heart attack and died right there. Shit does and will happen. I really don't know if he aint meat, doesn't matter, I also had an uncle live to 97 who ate meat all his damn life, but didn't smoke or drink. All kinds of variables to this existence.
I happen to think that the longest lived people are actually people consuming exclusive ethnic diets whether it be animals/plants, but the healthiest have a healthy dose of fermented foods.
Those are the healthiest humans. Animals are hard comparison because of metabolism and how different enzyme reactions are occuring, at least I would think.
A cow is a vegan, why can't people eat his ass?