Winston Churchill and His (Un)Healthy Lifestyle

We all desire to be healthy and if possible never fall sick even for a day.  There are many experts who have written books on healthy lifestyle. I am personally a vegetarian, nonsmoker and teetotaler; and like many people I believe that meat products, smoking and alcohol are harmful to health. I also take a regular walk and do some exercises to maintain my weight and keep myself fit. Yet I know in my heart that even the healthiest lifestyle can’t ensure good health. I know many people how suffer poor health even though they follow all good habits and there are many who follow all wrong habits and still maintain good health and live longer. 

One such glaring example that comes to my mind is that of Winston Churchill who defied all rules of healthy living. He was a chain-smoker, alcoholic and obese. He religiously followed his un-healthy lifestyle. On one occasion, Churchill hosted a luncheon for King Ibn Sa'ud of Saudi Arabia, who did not allow smoking or drinking in his presence. Rather than submit to the king's wishes, Churchill pointed out that "my rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them." The king was convinced.’ 

Churchill was quite proud of his drinking habits as following anecdote from his life seems to suggest.

It was towards the close of World War II, and Churchill was visited by a delegation of the Temperance League. And one of the ladies there firmly chastised him, saying, ‘Mr Prime Minister, I’ve heard of all the brandy you have drunk since the war began, and heard that if it were poured into this room, it would come up all the way to your waist.’

And Churchill looked dolefully down at the floor, and then at his waist, then up to the ceiling and said, ‘Ah, yes madam, so much accomplished and so much more left to do.’

Yet Churchill was extremely healthy. He became the oldest Prime Minster of United Kingdom at the age of almost eighty years and lived upto ninety years of age.  He wrote ‘The Second World War’ in six volumes in his seventies and awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 at the age of 80 years.

I always wondered how Churchill defied all scientific formula of good health and lived so long.

Perhaps the secret of good health of Churchill was that he always followed his conscious. There was no contradiction between what he thought, what he said and what he did. This harmony perhaps gave him good health and long life. Many people may be following all right habits but they may not be true to their conscious and that may make them sick and even kill them early.   

It may be difficult to prove the deep connection between health and consciousness, but we all know that it is true.

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