| Excerpted from the book "Your Right to Be Beautiful: | | | | you will not be asked to graze the garden, dig up the |
| How to Halt the Train of Aging and Meet the Most | | | | squirrel's nuts or dine out on the birdfeeder, but you will |
| Beautiful You" by Tonya Zavasta. The book is | | | | be introduced to an unexplored world of preparation |
| available at: | | | | techniques that allow you to create not only the most |
| Aging would not be so bad if it did not tell on us at | | | | nutritious meals, but also dishes that are delicious, filling |
| every encounter. As we hug one another, we register | | | | and satisfying. Some raw food recipes even mimic |
| the love handles on the other's waist, the flab on their | | | | traditional cuisine and make the transition to the |
| arms and the sag on their cheeks. We stare into each | | | | Rawsome diet easier. There are 100s of different |
| other's faces. After all, only saints find no pleasure in | | | | kinds of fruits and veggies, nuts and seeds with a |
| the wrinkles of their peers. We are not inexcusable | | | | variety of tastes and flavors, which awakened taste |
| sinners; we are checking to see how well we are | | | | buds will begin to appreciate. If you combine only two |
| holding up. Estimating someone's age and deciding how | | | | or three ingredients at each meal, then the number of |
| well that person has aged tells us a lot. Looking and | | | | dish combinations is endless. |
| feeling younger than chronological age has increasingly | | | | The ability to renew cells is built into your body, and the |
| becomes a yardstick of success. Preoccupation with | | | | body itself is capable of making you look more |
| age is a reality for our rapidly aging society. It is part of | | | | attractive. After all, we were designed to bloom |
| our resume and every bit as important as our | | | | continuously as old cells get replaced by new ones. |
| employment records. | | | | The Rawsome diet makes the most of this |
| We may be justified in our dismay at aging, even | | | | rejuvenating ability of our bodies. Rawsome beauty is |
| scientists are puzzled by the purposelessness of the | | | | not manufactured from the outside but cultivated from |
| process. Every biological event in the human body, | | | | the inside by nutritionally charged food. Whole raw |
| from conception to puberty to maturity, has a purpose | | | | food restores the integrity of every cell and facilitates |
| except aging. Aging makes no sense. Scientists are | | | | the optimal operation of every organ inside and out. |
| baffled as to why mammals have much shorter life | | | | The body, having been awakened by the improved |
| spans than more primitive species. We don't live nearly | | | | diet, in its wisdom, will reach out to the places where |
| as long as the Galapagos turtle but we usually wind up | | | | health was lacking, and you will gradually see your |
| looking like one. | | | | beauty surfacing. The Rawsome diet will eliminate all |
| Nowadays, researchers hunt for the gene that causes | | | | the toxins on a deeper level and bring amazing |
| aging. If they find it, they will look for a pill to disable it, | | | | changes to your appearance. |
| as though it were a virus. They face an appalling task. | | | | Only the body sustained on raw food will host natural |
| A cell, the simplest form of life, is more complex than | | | | beauty, or should we say Rawsome beauty. The |
| Mexico City, the largest city in the world. No one gene | | | | body becomes transcended and will unfold from the |
| or any one hormone is responsible for health and | | | | inside out. While your non-raw eating peers discover |
| youth. It is the ideal work of all the cells and organs | | | | new blemishes, blotches, and moles on a nearly daily |
| functioning together in complete harmony to prevent | | | | basis, you will see your own skin irregularities gradually |
| the breakdown of the body. What makes us think we | | | | fade or disappear. Feeding your body raw food will |
| can think stop aging just by turning a switch in the | | | | make eyes, once sunken in bulbous flesh, look larger |
| body? | | | | and more round by eliminating the surrounding |
| The signs of deterioration that we consider the signs | | | | puffiness and by firming the eyelids. Eyebrows that |
| of aging are the result of waste overload on the | | | | were beginning to form an awning over the eyes will |
| cellular level. When our actions are in opposition to | | | | regain their youthful arch. As natural collagen |
| nature, the results are different types of bodily ills, | | | | production improves, it will fill in the places where it is |
| deformities, and ugliness. Eating denatured and | | | | needed as in hollow cheeks. It will not just patch your |
| devitalized food leaves residues the body cannot | | | | face, but every one of your 3,000 square inches of |
| utilize, and they are deposited in places our Creator | | | | skin will improve. |
| never intended. Whatever the body cannot use, | | | | The landscape of the body will change. The surface |
| becomes toxic accumulations that steal our health and | | | | of the skin will become soft and smooth but still firm |
| our youth. | | | | and supple. Visible pores will diminish. A sallow skin with |
| Body acids enter in chemical reactions with waste | | | | a yellow pallor will turn into a porcelain-like complexion. |
| products causing calcification of the soft tissue. Now | | | | The whites of eyes, once red, will become bright with |
| tissues of vital organs and glands become burdened | | | | a bluish tinge. Raw food eating will clarify and refine |
| with mineral salts and crystalline deposits. Overloaded | | | | your features and bring delicacy to your face. |
| with waste, they not only can no longer function | | | | People who have been on the raw food lifestyle for |
| normally but also become more responsive to gravity's | | | | several years begin to have a glow, the kind not often |
| pull. As every tissue elongates and sags, drooping | | | | seen in middle-aged people. Optimal health is |
| jowls and sagging cheeks begin to drape on both | | | | recognized by an emerging radiance. Glow is hard to |
| sides of the mouth, and the eyebrows begin to hang | | | | fake because it is internal. It comes from an |
| over the eyes. | | | | abundance of clear, pink, almost transparent cells that |
| External deformities are direct manifestations of | | | | light up the face. Only superior blood circulation can |
| internal pathologies. Ugly ropes of varicose veins, puffy | | | | bring this transfiguring glow. Several years on the raw |
| faces, and cellulite are telling tales about your inside | | | | food diet will make you look as though you just |
| condition. Every pimple, psoriasis, or pigment change on | | | | stepped out of a painting by Renoir--the impressionist |
| your skin is in fact a reflection of some organ | | | | best known for his preoccupation with light. |
| struggling to do its job. Every bulge, boil, or swelling is a | | | | Colette, France's greatest woman writer, once wrote: |
| sign that the body is pushing out some toxins in its | | | | "The fear of aging, a commonplace neurosis, does not |
| effort to protect itself. | | | | usually wait for age and spares neither sex." But aging |
| Most of us feel our appearance lacks something. In | | | | is full of mercy towards people on the raw food diet. |
| reality, ugliness is more about excess. Toxic | | | | This diet will allow you to ripen, not to decay. Beauty |
| accumulations in our bodies are responsible for stealing | | | | does not have to erode or disappear with age. You |
| our health and attractiveness. Beauty lies latent under | | | | will be lithe and limber and keep your loveliness for a |
| cushions of retained fluids, deposits of fat, and sick | | | | long time. It is like winning the Jack Pot in the Age |
| tissues. Your beauty is buried alive, but in most cases it | | | | Game. You become age-proof. When you discover |
| can be revived in a version that will be satisfactory to | | | | The Most Beautiful You, old age will lose its sting, and |
| you. You must take immediate action to revitalize it. | | | | you will have victory over the ravages of time. |
| When you do, your uncovered beauty will surprise and | | | | Even on the 100 percent raw food diet, no one lives |
| delight you | | | | forever. For individuals who follow this diet for many |
| Some physical characteristics of our face and body | | | | years, aging comes a week or two before death. |
| we cannot change--they were determined prior to our | | | | Deterioration takes place rapidly. Perennial youth is a |
| birth. But the consumption of the raw plant diet as an | | | | perpetual dream. The raw food lifestyle is the closest |
| adult will make a difference in the texture of skin and | | | | anyone can come to reaching the maximum life span |
| hair, the health of nails, weight and complexion. All of | | | | with the quality of life intact. The diet allows the body |
| these traits and more are determined by daily choices, | | | | to mature gracefully. It produces an alliance of |
| with food being one of the most important and, luckily, | | | | character and health. The Rawsome Diet allows |
| the one we can fully control. | | | | everyone to live as long as God intended and look as |
| Since there can be no natural health without eating 100 | | | | God envisioned. |
| percent natural food, most of people have never | | | | © 2004 Tonya Zavasta |
| explored optimum health. In my book Your Right to Be | | | | This article may be freely reprinted in its entirety as |
| Beautiful, I advocate a diet made up solely of raw | | | | long as the entire article, byline and URL are included. |
| fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds-Rawsome Diet. No, | | | | |