Pretty Well All I Ever Wanted/Needed - and that anyone could reasonably wish - to Know/Learn about Health...I learnt from my Dear 'Ole Gram (Granny)...[and also Ellen Gould White and Adelle Davis]

Upon the Blessed *Birth-Anniversary of my all-time-favourite Grandparent (of **long ago yesteryear)

Though not - ever -  a subscriber to the views of Christian Science's Mary Baker Eddy, to wit her staunch, core belief - to rather ruthlessly paraphrase her - that all sickness/illness/disease is only really a figment of the [or rather a, and febrile] imagination...which views - alongside ***'Unity' (I believe, with substantial qualifications, stipulations and provisos - and all the rest) - Gram did hold for a significant period of her (later) life, especially following the untimely death of her second son, my own namesake David...

...some of the most important nutrition (including drinking water) principles that I ever learnt/ that ever graced my own life and times...I learnt by (unconscious) osmosis...from my beloved Grandmother ('Gram')...who lived next door (from my middle childhood on)...to her penultimate month upon Earth...

She wasn't far off the ball in her views of the medical fraternity/establishment either...not seeing a doctor for a large part of her later life...at least not until she was at length taken to a hospital and then a hospital/resthome a mere month-and-a-half before her death at 93-and-three-quarter-years of age.

Always considered somewhat remarkable by various and assorted visitors - and oftentimes remarked upon as looking every bit 20-30-plus years younger than she admitted she actually was...Grandma Billie was the very epitome of good health and longevity...

...but sadly, even she - at length - could not escape the pitiless hand of the Grim Reaper...though she lives on - to this very day even - in a substantial proportion of my dreams...

Whether it be - was - her buckwheat pancake breakfasts - with oodles of home-made apricot jam and buttermilk margarine; the fave veggie yams sown (and harvested) by me and my younger sister around Gram's incredible yard/ecosystem; her fabulous lemon whipped cream ('a-topping' homemade ice cream); her classic vegetarian chilli accompanied with homemade cornbread...or her famous fruit blends...she could cook (& bake) like few others I've ever met or I dare say, ever again will...

*115 years to be precise.

**My last Grandparent (Grandma 'Billie') died 21-plus years ago, my Mum's two parents 23-24 years ago, and Grandma Billie's hubby, my Dad's Dad, 39/40-some years ago...(though arguably he was the healthiest of the lot!)

***'The Unity School of ['Christianity'].