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 book is available at: http://www.beautifulonraw.com
Jean Kerr, American author and playwright wrote: “I’m
tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s
deep enough. What do you want an adorable pancreas?”—
Jean Kerr was closer to the truth than she might have realized.
Every outside organ of the human body is eligible to be called
beautiful, but because internal organs are ordinarily seen only
by surgeons, they get excluded from the beauty contest. If our
internal organs were observed, we would describe them in terms
of attractiveness, and normal color and shape would be considered
beautiful. You need only compare pictures of normal healthy internal
organs with pictures of their infected and diseased counterparts
in the medical books to convince yourself that health and beauty
are synonymous.
A healthy colon looks like evenly braided muscles. On the other
hand, unhealthy colons are deformed: twisted and looped in some
parts, ballooned and engorged in others, as revealed by barium
X-rays. Visit a colon therapist, if only to observe the pictures
of unhealthy colons and see for yourself how ugly one can be on
the inside.
The blood of a healthy person is also beautiful. The red blood
cells are uniformly round. The blood of a body full of toxins is
contaminated with pathological bacteria, abnormal proteins, and
parasites. When red blood corpuscles clump together, the condition
is called Rouleau or “sticky” blood. Rouleau, this
clumpy, unattractive blood, appears 5 to 20 years before symptoms
of illness present themselves. It is an early messenger of hundreds
of degenerative diseases. Conglomerates of red blood cells cannot
access the fine capillaries of the body. Rouleau is particularly
damaging to the organs of the head, in particular the eyes, ears,
and scalp. A diet high in meat and dairy products increases the
stickiness of your platelets. Blood that becomes sticky is a sure
precursor of blood clots, strokes, and heart attacks.
The arterial pipelines in a healthy circulatory system are clean
and clear from obstructions. In healthy arteries, the inner lining,
called the intima, is smooth, supple, and without cracks. A cross-section
of a normal coronary artery shows no arterial thickening or blood-blocking
plaque deposits.
An unhealthy circulatory system paints an entirely different picture.
The middle muscular layer of the artery can no longer fully recoil
after a pulse wave has expanded the vessel. Elasticity of the artery
walls is reduced, and cracks and hollows appear. They catch calcium,
cholesterol deposits, fat accumulations, and clusters of platelets.
Cholesterol deposits roughen the inner surfaces and damage the
walls of the arteries. At first, plaque build-up does not cause
discomfort--it is just ugly. But later, thick, clogged bloodstream
results in coronary arteries becoming occluded with fatty buildup,
which effects circulation and causes deterioration of the connective
tissues. Deterioration and abnormal hardening of the arteries result
in a process called arteriosclerosis and may cause heart disease,
stroke, and hypertension.
The body often displays real ingenuity faced with substances it
cannot metabolize or eliminate. It breaks them down and distributes
them to remote areas of the body away from vital organs to minimize
harm. The body takes the poisons out-of-the-way but not 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.
External deformities are direct manifestations of internal pathologies.
Ugly ropes of varicose veins, puffy faces, and cellulite are telling
tales about your inside condition. Every pimple, psoriasis, or
pigment change on your skin is in fact a reflection of some organ
struggling to do its job. Every bulge, boil, or swelling is a sign
that the body is pushing out some toxins in its effort to protect
itself.
The term “natural beauty” has been misused and abused
beyond restoration. Because there is no natural beauty without
100% natural food, the beauty that will emerge on the raw food
diet I call Rawsome Beauty. Our external beauty is at its best
when our internal organs are in the best possible shape, form,
and color. Beautiful is not something extra the body needs: to
be beautiful both inside and out is the natural state of one’s
body.
The vitality of internal organs, working properly, transcends
your skin and brings a radiance to your face. This is when beauty
does penetrate the skin. So when we admire sparkling eyes, fabulous
skin, and lustrous hair, in a way we are admiring the teamwork
of a healthy liver, colon, kidneys, etc. How profound the direct
meaning of the phrase "beauty comes from within" really
is.
Health and beauty are considered to be chronological losses. In
my books I will convince you they don’t have to be. It is
biologically possible to look beautiful at any age. I intend to
prove that beauty is not an accident; beauty is your birthright,
it can be yours through the right daily choices, food you put in
your mouth being the most important one. You can dramatically improve
your appearance and do it 100 percent on your own without expensive
products, plastic surgery or costly cosmetics.
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About the Author
Tonya Zavasta is the raw food lifestyle expert,
the author of the books Beautiful On Raw: UnCooked Creations
and Your Right to Be Beautiful: How to Halt the Train of Aging
and Meet the Most Beautiful You, named a 2004 Health Book of
the Year Award finalist by ForeWord Magazine. For more information
on how to reveal your Rawsome beauty visit her web-site at: http://www.beautifulonraw.com
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