What this book is about
Using the desire for youth and beauty to inspire and motivate others interested in raw foods, Tonya Zavasta interviewed eleven women who share their raw food experience, tips, insights and recipes in this motivating and inspiring book. How often do we get to read about the beauty tips and favorite raw food recipes of well known, inspiring, healthy and beautiful raw food women? It’s very motivating to read how they overcame and reversed health problems, aging, weight problems, and general dissatisfaction with their lives and diets. The before and after pictures are amazing and to read their ages while looking at the pictures has given me the belief that I can also youth and solve other issues.
In this book
Beautiful on Raw contains interviews to inspire, pictures to shift the paradigm of what you believe is possible, yummy and simple recipes and a list of health benefits of many fruits vegetables, nuts and seeds. The result is an informative, helpful, inspiring, captivating book that will motivate you to eat more healthy, raw foods even if you don’t convert to 100% raw.
Youthing
I was amazed at the transformation so many of these women made. The "before" and "after" pictures alone inspired me to believe that it’s possible to reverse the signs of aging. It made me consider that the human body doesn’t "grow old", it deteriorates from food the body wasn’t meant to eat and the belief that the body has to age. You may argue that it’s raw food alone that made these people grow more youthful. I would direct you to pictures of Anne Wigmore. If it’s only raw foods that causes the body to youth , then why didn’t she ever get younger? I think it’s because she didn’t have examples like Annie Larkin or Dr. Brenda Cobb. Annie started raw foods in her twenties and therefore remained young while Brenda actually reversed aging and looks younger every year that she’s on raw foods. It’s amazing!
My experience
I have taken Tonya suggestion (from Quantum Eating) of only eating twice a day and it has been great. I find that when I do eat I’m less likely to overeat, I have more energy and am less likely to eat things I don’t want to eat. I don’t just mean that I don’t want to use up my allotment of food on something that’s not wholesome. It really goes beyond that. I just don’t want it. It’s been a process but it’s working and I only started cutting back to 2 meals-a-day 6 days ago. Oh, one more thing, if I put something in my mouth now that’s not beneficial to my body, it tastes like I want to spit it out, and I did yesterday. I put some non-dairy frozen dessert in my mouth and as it started to melt I tasted things in it that I hadn’t tasted before and spit it right out into the sink. I won’t do that again.
What I eat now
My daily food now consists of green smoothies and nuts. (I soak and dehydrate the nuts before I eat them.) I sometimes have fruit as well but that’s about the bulk of my eating. Keep in mine that I started drinking a quart of green smoothies a day on November 29th.
Conclusions
I found the pictures in this book to be motivating and the stories inspiring and informative. The information on the health benefits of the different foods made me more conscious of how I was eating and the best way to make the most of the food I do eat. It was very educational and has affected my health positively.
View book details at Amazon: Beautiful on Raw: Uncooked Creations