Happy and healthy or happily and healthily

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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We grew up happily and healthily under Mama’s tender care.

or

We grew up happy and healthy under Mama’s tender care.

To me, the second sounds more natural - I especially don’t like the sound of “healthily”, but is the first sentence more grammatically correct?

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english-test.net/forum/ftopic73507.html --does it ring a bell?

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Thanks for the link. I can understand “He died happy.”, as dying is at a particular point in time, but “We grew up happy.” might not be comparable, unless the sentence is understood to mean “We grew up happy and healthy.”

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From good ol’ Net:
1.Growing Old Healthily
2.Healthily Growing in Bangladesh: The biggest daily struggle for 28 year old mother of two Sima Begum, is feeding her young children and keeping them healthy.
3.How To Make Your Hair Grow Healthily - Benefits Of Coconut Oil …
4. What plants need to grow healthily - Plants need soil,air,water and sunlight to grow into healthy plants. Keep the amounts in balance and see how long you can keep the plant growing healthily…
5.Growing old gracefully - and healthily. Source: Arthritis Today. Hands up if you want to stay healthy:
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It also is idiomatic-- a modification taken from one or a number of fairy tales; similar to, “and they all lived happily everafter.” forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1637072

1.Growing Happily are celebrating our 1st birthday in March 2013. Thank you to everybody who has been part of making Growing Happily a success & we look forward to sharing even more exciting, happy and life changing experiences with you all.
2.Chives, mint and parsley - growing quite happily on a north facing windowsill…
3.How To Grow Old Happily - Moneylife
4.Growing Up Happily ! by Dr. Jyotsna Padalkar

As I interpreted it, you can grow someone happy and healthy if you grew up happily and healthily.