 Divine
Food for Divine Beauty
By Tonya Zavasta
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 natural world is filled with beauty. It delights us with its magnificent
colors and extraordinary designs. God's artistic taste and superior craftsmanship
are manifested in spectacular sunsets and diminutive snowflakes. We look
on nature and exclaim in adoration: "How great Thou art!" But
what about our own image -the one we view in the mirror? Most of us are
not pleased with what we see. Why do plants and animals often display
greater visual beauty than God's favorite creation - human being? Ordinarily
all flowers are beautiful and only a wilted flower looks abnormal. And
yet humankind calls less than one percent of the adult population officially
beautiful. Double chins, protruding stomachs, and sallow complexions are
seen everywhere, even in young people.
Our body was created in the image of God, the Supreme Beauty. In Genesis
1:29 we read: "And God said, 'See, I have given you every herb that
yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose
fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.'" God's original
diet of raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds is the most suitable one
for the human body. It is salubrious to the body's health and salutary
to its beauty. The raw food diet is awesome, it should be called the very
name it inspired: the Rawsome diet.
When our actions are in opposition with nature, the results are different
types of bodily ills, deformities and ugliness. Eating cooked food leaves
residues that the body cannot utilize and they become deposited in places
where our Creator never intended. Everything that is not fully digested
and then is not properly eliminated the body treats as an abnormal substance.
The body becomes ingeniously resourceful faced with substances it cannot
metabolize or eliminate. It breaks them down into minute particles and
distributes them to remote areas of the body, way from vital organs to
minimize harm. The body takes the poisons out-of-the-way but 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.
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.
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 over which we have fully control.
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.
The Bible says in Esther 2:9, that Esther was provided with some beauty
treatments and special food before facing King Xerxes. The Bible does
not specify what kind of food was used, but I believe it had to be God's
original diet that is mentioned in Genesis 1:29 where "God said,
'See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face
of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall
be for food.'" Special food together with oil treatment and cosmetics
were part of Esther's beauty rituals for twelve months. Like Esther, it
will take about a year for your face and body to reach its full beauty
potential.
The landscape of the body will change. The surface of the skin will become
soft and smooth but 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.
The artistic ability of your body will amaze you. It will look as if
a sculptor is chiseling your face and body. It's amazing how the fat deposits
will disappear at the right spots. All excesses will be eliminated. Everything
that is bumpy or lumpy will be smoothed or straightened. Everything that
is dull will be illuminated. The features will be carved until a lovely
face surfaces, and the skin will be polished until it glows. Raw food
eating will clarify and refine your features and bring delicacy to your
face.
Regular features are not essential for the whole effect to be seen as
beautiful. 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.
Only the body sustained on raw food will host natural beauty, or should
we say Rawsome beauty. 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.
From age 15 until recently, I wore my hair permed, only to discover at
45 that straight hair in my natural color was the best possible frame
for my face. Did my preference change? Not at all. My face did. So let
me give you a hint, if you need a camouflaging hairdo, you are not looking
your best. The changes in your face brought about by raw foods will bring
the freedom to arrange your hair in any way you want. When your peer group
is thinking: "I am losing my looks", you will be finding yours.
At 45, I enjoy looking in the mirror while before I detested my reflection.
When a person starts to attend the gym regularly he or she becomes aware
of trained bodies. The same phenomenon occurs with the raw food diet.
You begin to see how much people's appearance differs from their optimal
one. Each time I see a woman, I study her appearance, and I see not only
the way she looks but also the way she could look. What I see is how far
her image digresses from her potential beauty. I perceive her beauty as
it will stand out after the body has cleansed itself from toxins and excesses.
I have come to believe if you embrace the 100 percent raw food diet,
you will 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.
© 2003 -- Tonya Zavasta
Tonya Zavasta is the author of the book Your
Right to Be Beautiful: How to Halt the Train of Aging and Meet
the Most Beautiful You and of the soon to be published its sequel
Beautiful on Raw. In these books Tonya comes across as an ambassador
for plain looking women in their quest for physical beauty. Tonya knows
firsthand what it is to be humiliated, face adversity and meet the complex
obstacles of daily living with a congenital disability. Facing several
reconstructive hip surgeries to enable her to walk, she sought a way to
offset the devastating effects of anesthetics on her health and appearance.
She became more and more convinced that the solution to her quest for
health and beauty was to be found in the raw food lifestyle or the Rawsome
Diet as she calls it. The Rawsome Diet not only helped her to sail courageously
through troublesome times, brought her general health and appearance to
an all time best, but also opened a new chapter of her life. Firmly believing
that the roots of under-performing and under-achieving lie in feeling
and looking less than your personal best, she is on a mission: she wants
every woman to look and feel beautiful. Tonya is convinced that by eating
as God intended everyone can look uniquely beautiful as God envisioned.
To learn more about how you can uncover your Rawsome beauty, visit:
www.beautifulonraw.com
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