Increase ONE's quality of life

Living a healthy lifestyle can be challenging, but it's always worth it. As a Customs worker and system engineer, I often find my work exhausting. However, with the grace of God, the support of my wife's frequent prayers and the Bibliamates community close to my heart, I manage to stay on track. For the past five years, my wife and I have been dedicated to living a healthy and organic lifestyle, which we call "living-in-the-biblical-ages." We eat whole foods and drink natural sources of water, avoiding unhealthy oils and sugars.

Despite not being a nutritionist or doctor, I believe that my way of living can be applied to my old folks back home. If I could be with them, I would provide them with groceries every fortnight, containing items like sweet potatoes, watermelon, kiwi, and grass-fed beef. I would also consider the sensitivities of my old folks, addressing their physical and emotional health. I believe that it's important to not just prolong life but also to increase its quality.

Looking back on a year spent with my parents, I wonder if I was able to increase their quality of life. It's a question that many people ask themselves when they reflect on their loved ones. While it's impossible to know for sure, I take comfort in knowing that I did my best to provide a healthy lifestyle for my family, which can only improve their well-being in the long run.

So if I’m living it this way currently I would have done it for my old folks at home. No need for a daily nutritionist. Perhaps only a caregiver. I’d have bought every fortnight good groceries that contains what we usually buy here too such as (to name a few) :

Japanese (variant) Sweet Potato (Philippines', Vietnam or Malaysian brand), Watermelon, Kiwi (New Zealand brand), Melon (Australian brand), Pineapple (Philippine brand), Banana (Philippine brand), vegetables - sweet potato leaves, Kang Kong, Chayote, String beans, Ampalaya or Bittergourd (as much as possible, organic), grass-fed beef, wild-caught fishes, some gluten free GF hotdogs, GF bread, chocolate drink (pure cocoa and no additives), brown and red rice (if no substitute for GF bread), GF cake, Stevia*, Welch's 100% Grape Fruit Juice and just recently Essential oils (especially Lavender, peppermint, & Thieves oil). 

Sweet potato leaves? We just steam them in water for about 5-minutes or more using an air-fryer. Though we miss Molido (sweet potato candy) a Bicolandia delicacy. More in our Page: No Rice No Lies.

*Stevia is a natural sweetener and sugar substitute derived from the leaves of the plant species Stevia rebaudiana, native to Brazil and Paraguay. The active compounds are steviol glycosides, which have 30 to 150 times the sweetness of sugar, are heat-stable, pH-stable, and not fermentable. Wikipedia