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I took the title of this chapter from an article by Alice Walker. It is an article about excellence, the excellence of a healthy life and of a healthy death. A healthy life is sustained by the food that we eat, the environment that we live in, and the family and friends that support us and accept our support. Alice Walker states:
America should have closed down and examined its every intention, institution, and law of the very first day that a black woman observed that the collard greens tasted like water. Or when the first person of any color observed that store bought tomatoes taste more like unripened avocados than like tomatoes.
The flavor of food is one of the clearest messages the universe ever sends to human beings: and we have by now eaten poisoned warnings by the ton.1
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Alice Walker, “On excellence,” Ms. Magazine (January, 1985), p. 53.
Ibid., pp. 53–56.
Hans Selye, The Stress of Life (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976), p. 431.
Ibid., p. 416.
Ibid., p. 433.
Joel Littauer, “The joy and pride of teaching a dass,” Los Angeles Times (Editorial, January, 1991).
Sven Setterlind, Lars-Eric Uneståhl, and Bob Kaill, Relaxation Training for Youth (Sweden: Stress Management Center, 1986), pp. 5–21.
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Friedman, A.M. (1992). An Excellent Death. In: Treating Chronic Pain. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5968-3_18
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