DIVINE FOOD FOR DIVINE BEAUTY
Excerpted from the book "Your Right to Be Beautiful: How to Halt
the Train of Aging and Meet the Most Beautiful You" by Tonya
Zavasta. The book is available at: http://www.beautifulonraw.com
The phrase "natural beauty" has been abused and misused beyond
restoration. The modern use is almost never associated with its
true meaning. Someone said there should be a portrait of a
healthy person in a museum so people would know what they are
talking about. If we don't know what a healthy person looks
like, how do we know what natural beauty is?
In our unnatural world, the word "natural" no longer means
without effort, at least not in the realm of obtaining your best
look. One thing is a must in defining natural beauty: its
achievement must not involve any sacrifice of health. None,
period. If health is compromised in any way beauty is not
natural.
Our body was created in the image of God, the Supreme Beauty.
When our actions are in opposition to nature, the results are
different types of bodily ills, deformities, and ugliness. Since
there can be no natural beauty without eating 100 percent
natural food, most of you have never seen the natural you.
There is an urgent need for another word. The contemporary
meaning of natural is too far from the divine. I suggest filling
this void with "rawsome", a new word circulating in the raw food
community. It is a combination of two words:" raw" and "awesome"
with the meaning being something between natural and divine. The
diet of raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds also needs to be
renamed. I have often been told that the phrase "the raw food
diet", sounds like eating raw meat, particularly sushi, which is
misleading. The raw food diet is so awesome that it should be
called the very name it inspired -- the Rawsome Diet.
Most of us feel our appearance lacks something. In reality,
ugliness is more about excess. Toxic accumulations in our bodies
are responsible for stealing our health and attractiveness.
Beauty lies latent under cushions of retained fluids, deposits
of fat, and sick tissues. Your beauty is buried alive, but in
most cases it can be revived in a version that will be
satisfactory to you. You must take immediate action to
revitalize it. When you do, your uncovered beauty will surprise
and delight you.
Eating cooked food will leave residues the body cannot utilize,
and they will be deposited in places our Creator never intended.
Everything not fully digested and properly eliminated, the body
will treat as an abnormal substance. It will pocket these toxins
as far away from the vital organs as possible -- on the
peripheries of the body -- where it will invariably be reflected
in our outward appearance. If the body cannot use it inside, it
will deposit it on the outside. Nutrients from the food you eat
spiral upward to the epidermis, and their quality will determine
whether you will have a glowing clear complexion or skin spotted
with growths, such as moles and skin sores.
Some physical characteristics of our face and body we cannot
change -- they were determined prior to our birth. But the
consumption of the raw plant diet as an adult will make a
difference in the texture of skin and hair, the health of nails,
weight and complexion. All of these traits and more are
determined by daily choices, with food being one of the most
important and, luckily, the one we can fully control.
The Rawsome diet is the most suitable one for human physiology.
It is salubrious to the body's health and salutary to its
beauty. The ability to renew cells is built into your body, and
the body itself is capable of making you look more attractive.
After all, we were designed to bloom continuously as old cells
get replaced by new ones. The Rawsome diet makes the most of
this rejuvenating ability of our bodies.
Rawsome beauty is not manufactured from the outside but
cultivated from the inside by nutritionally charged food. Whole
raw food restores the integrity of every cell and facilitates
the optimal operation of every organ inside and out. The body,
having been awakened by the improved diet, in its wisdom, will
reach out to the places where health was lacking, and you will
gradually see your beauty surfacing. The Rawsome diet will
eliminate all the toxins on a deeper level and bring amazing
changes to your appearance.
Only the body sustained on raw food will host natural beauty,
or should we say Rawsome beauty. The landscape of the body will
change. The surface of the skin will become soft and smooth but
still firm and supple. Visible pores will diminish. A sallow
skin with a yellow pallor will turn into a porcelain-like
complexion. The whites of eyes, once red, will become bright
with a bluish tinge. As natural collagen production improves, it
will fill in the places where it is needed as in hollow cheeks.
Raw food eating will clarify and refine your features and bring
delicacy to your face.
On the Rawsome Diet, you will marvel at how the Master Artist
will make the most of your individual features and bring balance
to the entire face. Texture, hues, and shape will be
harmoniously arranged into a genteel whole. Perfection and
imperfection will be tied together into a unique original
version of beauty.
Each time I see a woman, I study her appearance, and I see not
just the way she looks but the way she could look. What I see is
how far her image falls short of her potential beauty. I
perceive her beauty as it would stand out after the body has
cleansed itself from toxins and excesses.
As the cleansing initiated by this diet is completed, you will
be very pleased to see how you were meant to look. Your body
will exhibit beauty and dignity. You will become satisfied, even
fascinated, with your appearance. When you look your very best,
you look perfect, in a sense that you are as close to the divine
image for yourself as you could ever be. You accept yourself
completely. Natural beauty is above conformity; it doesn't
demand to be accepted by the dictates of the beauty norm.
People who have been on the raw food lifestyle for several years
begin to have a glow, the kind not often seen in middle-aged
people. Optimal health is recognized by an emerging radiance.
Glow is hard to fake because it is internal. It comes from an
abundance of clear, pink, almost transparent cells that light up
the face. Only superior blood circulation can bring this
transfiguring glow. Several years on the raw food diet will make
you look as though you just stepped out of a painting by Renoir
-- the impressionist best known for his preoccupation with
light.
I have come to believe if you do not embrace the 100 percent raw
food diet, you will never meet The Most Beautiful You. The best
proof that the Rawsome diet is optimal for the body is it makes
you beautiful. Slim face, slender waist, and clear skin with
smooth coloration -- these subtle changes will convince you the
raw plant diet is the best for good health and graceful beauty.
No woman knows her true beauty until she cleanses her body
completely of all waste.
You can say there are people who are beautiful, and they are not
on this diet. That is true. It is hard to believe, but even they
haven't seen the best of themselves. Dissatisfaction with one's
appearance arises not from perceiving our bodies inaccurately
but because subconsciously we are aware we haven't achieved our
optimal look. The Rawsome diet gives a feeling of authenticity,
an assurance we have become what we were meant to be.
Raw food not only corrects beauty's shortcomings but also lifts
the limitations of one's spirit and releases strains and
tensions in both your mind and body. People on the raw food diet
have an aura about them, a transcendent nobility and complacent
dignity. Sickness is goodness lost, and our unhappiness is a
longing for goodness. One takes in the goodness in the form of
fresh fruits and vegetables and feels its purifying process on
the inside. Goodness in one's food summons up goodness in one's
appearance and character.
Do you think it is hard to follow this life style? Women have
done so many outrageous and dangerous things to themselves in
the pursuit of beauty, I believe they should at least try the
Rawsome lifestyle, which promises to transform them into
beautiful people. What a woman won't do for health, she will do
for beauty. This is the first time beauty asks no sacrifice from
health.
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