“My parents, they were so, so healthy,” she says. “I think they were so ahead of their time with how they did our meals and our diet we have, which we have salads in the morning and then also at night. I think my dad would be really into Balance of Nature supplements.”
—Melissa E.
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Balance of Nature customer Melissa E. is a grandmother who loves spending time with her very large family. She is the youngest of 16 children.
Melissa works for the school district as a financial analyst and helps with the security in the district. Melissa also helps take care of her granddaughter while the parents work.
Her Big Ohana (Family)
Melissa’s parents are from the islands of Hawaii, but along the way, they ended up in California, where Melissa would be born. Their family returns to Hawaii once a year to visit extended family.
“We were just one of the first families that came out to the mainland from our big ohana,” shares Melissa.
Melissa has gained her first grandchild, her granddaughter, and says it is such a blessing to have the large family she does. She says that becoming a grandmother has changed her life. “I want to be in her life. I want to take care of her.”
Melissa says that her family values spirituality and health.
“Family values are so important and they’re ingrained in me, being raised with so many siblings. With Native Hawaiian parents and family grandchildren, our family just can’t get enough of a little young life coming into our family, and our ohana is wonderful. We have a blend of all different ethnicities and many different children. It’s wonderful to be a part of a great family, but it’s important to be healthy and be able to travel, see family, take care of your kids, and see your extended family.”
Because her family is so big, she says she had a lot of experience with nieces and nephews and in watching her sisters and brothers take care of their grandchildren, but it is different when you have your own.
“You don’t really know until you have your own grandchild, and I’m really blessed to have her. She keeps me busy every day.”
Eating Salads for Breakfast and Dinner!
Melissa explained that her father worked very hard raising her and her siblings.
“My father raised 16 children,” she says. “He started working as a plumber in Hawaii, moved over to the mainland to California, back when Hawaii wasn’t even a state. So he has a passport and he moved out to California, and my parents worked hard.”
Melissa says her whole family grew up around fruits and vegetables and valued health. She says her dad provided for all of them, and he believed in working hard as well as taking care of his health.
“He was very active with us,” she says. “It’s incredible to me because I know what he did. And being a mother myself, I’m blown away because I think, ‘How did he have the energy?’”
She explains that he had a very good diet and would eat a lot of raw foods. They ate various fish four or five times a week, and her dad planted many fruit trees: apple, lemon, lime, orange, and cherry. No wonder he lived to be 96!
“So to me, my parents, they were so, so healthy,” she says. “I think they were so ahead of their time with how they did our meals and our diet we have, which we have salads in the morning and then also at night. I think my dad would be really into Balance of Nature supplements.”
How It Started
Melissa says she started taking Balance of Nature supplements at a busy time in her life: she turned 60, her sister sadly passed away, her granddaughter was born, her daughter experienced a car accident, their water pipes burst on Christmas Eve right before family was due to visit, and she continued taking Balance of Nature supplements through it all!
“We can’t control what life puts in our path, but you can control how you let it affect you.” She continues, “I mean, I have my family. I’m always going to my brothers and sisters, but we’re there for each other. And when things happen, you know, you can count on them.”
A Solid Foundation
Melissa always wanted a family. She explains that her older sisters were like mothers to her. They had daughters around her age, so they felt like sisters rather than nieces, and they all had each other no matter what.
“I look at my siblings; they’re very healthy. And to me, that’s the key. That’s what it is. It goes back to being raised and having a really good diet. We grew up making our own food, you know, my parents couldn’t afford to take us out to restaurants, and so I would say that was what was important.”
Because she had a good foundation and grew up the way she did, Melissa says she feels much healthier to this day. It is also partly why she resonated with Balance of Nature supplements.
“I think that is why I looked to a product like Balance of Nature supplements. I studied it and I was like, ‘Okay, this could work.’ I don’t know if I would have been so interested in products like Balance of Nature supplements if I didn’t grow up with that solid base of a good diet.”
Melissa says Balance of Nature supplements just blow her away. “When I talk to people about Balance of Nature supplements, I bring up all these reasons.”
If, like Melissa, you want to get a wide variety of ingredients from fruits and vegetables, visit BalanceofNature.com!
