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.comAging would not be so bad if it did not tell on us at every encounter. As we hug one another, we register love handles on other's waist, flab on their arms and sag on their cheeks. We stare into each other's faces. After all, only saints find no pleasure in wrinkles of their peers. We are not inexcusable sinners; we are checking to see how well we are holding up. Estimating someone's age and deciding how well that person has aged tells us a lot. Looking and feeling younger than chronological age has increasingly becomes a yardstick of success. Preoccupation with age is a reality for our rapidly aging society. It is part of our resume and every bit as important as our employment records.
The signs of deterioration that we consider signs of aging are result of waste overload on cellular level. When our actions are in opposition to nature, results are different types of bodily ills, deformities, and ugliness. Eating denatured and devitalized food leaves residues body cannot utilize, and they are deposited in places our Creator never intended. Whatever body cannot use, becomes toxic accumulations that steal our health and our youth.
Body acids enter in chemical reactions with waste products causing calcification of soft tissue. Now tissues of vital organs and glands become burdened with mineral salts and crystalline deposits. Overloaded with waste, they not only can no longer function normally but also become more responsive to gravity's pull. As every tissue elongates and sags, drooping jowls and sagging cheeks begin to drape on both sides of mouth, and eyebrows begin to hang over eyes.
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 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.
Since there can be no natural health without eating 100 percent natural food, most of people have never explored optimum health. In my book Your Right to Be Beautiful, I advocate a diet made up solely of raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds-Rawsome Diet. No, you will not be asked to graze garden, dig up squirrel's nuts or dine out on birdfeeder, but you will be introduced to an unexplored world of preparation techniques that allow you to create not only most nutritious meals, but also dishes that are delicious, filling and satisfying. Some raw food recipes even mimic traditional cuisine and make transition to Rawsome diet easier. There are 100s of different kinds of fruits and veggies, nuts and seeds with a variety of tastes and flavors, which awakened taste buds will begin to appreciate. If you combine only two or three ingredients at each meal, then number of dish combinations is endless.
