Your Right to be Beautiful – The Miracle of Raw Foods
How to halt the train of aging & meet the most beautiful you
Tonya Zavasta
BR Publishing ISBN 9780974243443
Disadvantaged in the beauty stakes by a crippling disability from childhood, Tonya is both sincere and determined to share her discovery that you can become the most beautiful that you have ever been, no matter what age or if you are starting from a less than beautiful base. Her secret is the raw food diet – the diet she calls ‘god’s original diet’ – plus some extra practices thrown in for good measure.
In this book Tonya provides a number of strong arguments supported by scientific evidence why eating raw food can and will make a person more attractive. She also suggests ways to build muscle for a leaner physique and to exfoliate the face for a more youthful complexion. Tonya is not just a preacher either; everyone who meets her comments that her facial skin is simply amazing and that she is truly beautiful.
One of my favourite parts in the book was actually a lesson in psychology – that was not to trust authority above your own beliefs in who you can be. Tonya describes how a doctor’s mistake almost caused a permanent shortening of one of her legs (after her first successful lengthening surgery). Instead of despair Tonya swore she would never leave the hospital until it was fixed. The doctor thought about the problem and came up with a better solution. It is worth remembering that people will not always come up with their best ideas first; when working with other people it is worth holding out if something is especially important to you. At the end of the day, we are responsible for ourselves. I liked this section because it concreted in my mind that Tonya really is incredibly determined.
I also found it very interesting to read that by juicing and hanging upside down in a slant board every day Tonya was able to lengthen her damaged muscles, ligaments and nerves. She hung upside down by up to ten minutes every day for two years to lengthen her shorter leg, enabling her to have corrective surgery. Then, after having surgery she juiced until the was fully recovered.
One of Tonya’s claims to fame is her incredibly youthful looking facial skin. She shares her secret for how she exfoliates her skin with a brush. She recommends a toothbrush, and personally exfoliates twice a day.
One disadvantage to to book is that Tonya does not describe the specifics of her diet in enough detail. The few recipes in the book sound more like raw gourmet than what Tonya would normally eat herself. As the book continued I found myself wanting to know what specifically she eats; an ‘everything as long as its raw’ diet, or something more specific? Unfortunately she never really answers. For this reason I would consider the book not a good book for Raw Food Diet per se (other than theory), but more about general principles of beauty and maintaining it. Still, I think it is a good book for the reference library, I am happy to have purchased it.
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