The ability to renew cells is built into your body, and 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 most of this rejuvenating ability of our bodies. Rawsome beauty is not manufactured from outside but cultivated from inside by nutritionally charged food. Whole raw food restores integrity of every cell and facilitates optimal operation of every organ inside and out. The body, having been awakened by improved diet, in its wisdom, will reach out to places where health was lacking, and you will gradually see your beauty surfacing. The Rawsome diet will eliminate all toxins on a deeper level and bring amazing changes to your appearance.

Only body sustained on raw food will host natural beauty, or should we say Rawsome beauty. The body becomes transcended and will unfold from inside out. While your non-raw eating peers discover new blemishes, blotches, and moles on a nearly daily basis, you will see your own skin irregularities gradually fade or disappear. Feeding your body raw food will make eyes, once sunken in bulbous flesh, look larger and more round by eliminating surrounding puffiness and by firming eyelids. Eyebrows that were beginning to form an awning over eyes will regain their youthful arch. As natural collagen production improves, it will fill in places where it is needed as in hollow cheeks. It will not just patch your face, but every one of your 3,000 square inches of skin will improve.

The landscape of body will change. The surface of 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. Raw food eating will clarify and refine your features and bring delicacy to your face.

People who have been on raw food lifestyle for several years begin to have a glow, 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 face. Only superior blood circulation can bring this transfiguring glow. Several years on 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.

Even on 100 percent raw food diet, no one lives forever. For individuals who follow this diet for many years, aging comes a week or two before death. Deterioration takes place rapidly. Perennial youth is a perpetual dream. The raw food lifestyle is closest anyone can come to reaching maximum life span with quality of life intact. The diet allows body to mature gracefully. It produces an alliance of character and health. The Rawsome Diet allows everyone to live as long as God intended and look as God envisioned. ©2003Tonya Zavasta

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How long should ice be applied while practicing R.I.C.E. for it to be effective? There are four levels of cold felt by skin: coldness; a prickly or burning sensation; a feeling of aching pain; and finally a lack of sensation or numbness. When area feels numb, icing should be discontinued. The skin should return to normal body temperature before icing again. Usually numbness can be achieved in 10 to 20 minutes. Never apply ice for more than 30 minutes at a time or tissue damage may occur.

It is generally recommended to practice R.I.C.E. at intervals of 4 to 6 hours for up to 48 hours after an injury. Heat treatments are appropriate for some injuries, but should only be considered after inflammation has receded, approximately 72 hours after an injury. If body part does not respond to R.I.C.E. therapy within 48 hours, it would be wise to consult your health care provider in event a serious injury has occurred such as internal bleeding or a broken bone.

For minor injuries, use R.I.C.E. instead of plain ice!

This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical treatment or consultation. Always consult with your physician in event of a serious injury.