Excerpted from book “Your Right to Be Beautiful: How to Halt Train of Aging and Meet Most Beautiful You” by Tonya Zavasta. The book is available at: http://www.beautifulonraw.com/html/righttobe.htmlThe 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, word "natural" no longer means without effort, at least not in 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 image of God, Supreme Beauty. When our actions are in opposition to nature, 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 natural you.
There is an urgent need for another word. The contemporary meaning of natural is too far from divine. I suggest filling this void with "rawsome", a new word circulating in raw food community. It is a combination of two words:" raw" and "awesome" with 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 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 very name it inspired- 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 body cannot utilize, and they will be deposited in places our Creator never intended. Everything not fully digested and properly eliminated, body will treat as an abnormal substance. It will pocket these toxins as far away from vital organs as possible--on peripheries of body--where it will invariably be reflected in our outward appearance. If body cannot use it inside, it will deposit it on outside. Nutrients from food you eat spiral upward to 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 consumption of raw plant diet as an adult will make a difference in texture of skin and hair, health of nails, weight and complexion. All of these traits and more are determined by daily choices, with food being one of most important and, luckily, one we can fully control.
The Rawsome diet is most suitable one for human physiology. It is salubrious to body’s health and salutary to its beauty. 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 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. As natural collagen production improves, it will fill in places where it is needed as in hollow cheeks. Raw food eating will clarify and refine your features and bring delicacy to your face.