Health Is Internal 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
Jean Kerr, American author and playwright wrote: "I'm tired of
all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep
enough. What do you want an adorable pancreas?" Jean Kerr was
closer to the truth than she might have realized. Every outside
organ of the human body is eligible to be called beautiful, but
because internal organs are ordinarily seen only by surgeons,
they get excluded from the beauty contest. If our internal
organs were observed, we would describe them in terms of
attractiveness, and normal color and shape would be considered
beautiful. You need only compare pictures of normal healthy
internal organs with pictures of their infected and diseased
counterparts in the medical books to convince yourself that
health and beauty are synonymous.
A healthy colon looks like evenly braided muscles. On the other
hand, unhealthy colons are deformed: twisted and looped in some
parts, ballooned and engorged in others, as revealed by barium
X-rays. Visit a colon therapist, if only to observe the pictures
of unhealthy colons and see for yourself how ugly one can be on
the inside.
The blood of a healthy person is also beautiful. The red blood
cells are uniformly round. The blood of a body full of toxins is
contaminated with pathological bacteria, abnormal proteins, and
parasites. When red blood corpuscles clump together, the
condition is called Rouleau or "sticky" blood. Rouleau, this
clumpy, unattractive blood, appears 5 to 20 years before
symptoms of illness present themselves. It is an early messenger
of hundreds of degenerative diseases. Conglomerates of red blood
cells cannot access the fine capillaries of the body. Rouleau is
particularly damaging to the organs of the head, in particular
the eyes, ears, and scalp. A diet high in meat and dairy
products increases the stickiness of your platelets. Blood that
becomes sticky is a sure precursor of blood clots, strokes, and
heart attacks.
The arterial pipelines in a healthy circulatory system are clean
and clear from obstructions. In healthy arteries, the inner
lining, called the intima, is smooth, supple, and without
cracks. A cross-section of a normal coronary artery shows no
arterial thickening or blood-blocking plaque deposits.
An unhealthy circulatory system paints an entirely different
picture. The middle muscular layer of the artery can no longer
fully recoil after a pulse wave has expanded the vessel.
Elasticity of the artery walls is reduced, and cracks and
hollows appear. They catch calcium, cholesterol deposits, fat
accumulations, and clusters of platelets. Cholesterol deposits
roughen the inner surfaces and damage the walls of the arteries.
At first, plaque build-up does not cause discomfort--it is just
ugly. But later, thick, clogged bloodstream results in coronary
arteries becoming occluded with fatty buildup, which effects
circulation and causes deterioration of the connective tissues.
Deterioration and abnormal hardening of the arteries result in a
process called arteriosclerosis and may cause heart disease,
stroke, and hypertension.
The body often displays real ingenuity faced with substances it
cannot metabolize or eliminate. It breaks them down and
distributes them to remote areas of the body away from vital
organs to minimize harm. The body takes the poisons
out-of-the-way but not necessarily out of sight. The toxic
wastes are pushed towards the peripheral organs, which happen to
be the skin and every other organ that we can see on the
outside.
External deformities are direct manifestations of internal
pathologies. Ugly ropes of varicose veins, puffy faces, and
cellulite are telling tales about your inside condition. Every
pimple, psoriasis, or pigment change on your skin is in fact a
reflection of some organ struggling to do its job. Every bulge,
boil, or swelling is a sign that the body is pushing out some
toxins in its effort to protect itself.
The term "natural beauty" has been misused and abused beyond
restoration. Because there is no natural beauty without 100%
natural food, the beauty that will emerge on the raw food diet I
call Rawsome Beauty. Our external beauty is at its best when our
internal organs are in the best possible shape, form, and color.
Beautiful is not something extra the body needs: to be beautiful
both inside and out is the natural state of one's body.
The vitality of internal organs, working properly, transcends
your skin and brings a radiance to your face. This is when
beauty does penetrate the skin. So when we admire sparkling
eyes, fabulous skin, and lustrous hair, in a way we are admiring
the teamwork of a healthy liver, colon, kidneys, etc. How
profound the direct meaning of the phrase "beauty comes from
within" really is.
Health and beauty are considered to be chronological losses. In
my books I will convince you they don't have to be. It is
biologically possible to look beautiful at any age. I intend to
prove that beauty is not an accident; beauty is your birthright,
it can be yours through the right daily choices, food you put in
your mouth being the most important one. You can dramatically
improve your appearance and do it 100 percent on your own
without expensive products, plastic surgery or costly cosmetics.
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