Ani Phyo's Raw Food Kitchen: Mylk & SmartMonkey Bar Cereal

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Divine Food for Divine Beauty

"When our actions are in opposition with nature, the results are different types of bodily ills, deformities and ugliness. Eating cooked food leaves residues that the body cannot utilize and they become deposited in places where our Creator never intended."

Divine Food for Divine BeautyBy Tonya ZavastaExcerpted 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 natural world is filled with beauty.

It delights us with its magnificent colors and extraordinary designs. God's artistic taste and superior craftsmanship are manifested in spectacular sunsets and diminutive snowflakes. We look on nature and exclaim in adoration: "How great Thou art!" But what about our own image -the one we view in the mirror?

Most of us are not pleased with what we see. Why do plants and animals often display greater visual beauty than God's favorite creation - human being? Ordinarily all flowers are beautiful and only a wilted flower looks abnormal. And yet humankind calls less than one percent of the adult population officially beautiful. Double chins, protruding stomachs, and sallow complexions are seen everywhere, even in young people.

Our body was created in the image of God, the Supreme Beauty. In Genesis 1:29 we read: "And God said, 'See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.'" God's original diet of raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds is the most suitable one for the human body. It is salubrious to the body's health and salutary to its beauty. The raw food diet is awesome, it should be called the very name it inspired: the Rawsome diet.

When our actions are in opposition with nature, the results are different types of bodily ills, deformities and ugliness. Eating cooked food leaves residues that the body cannot utilize and they become deposited in places where our Creator never intended. Everything that is not fully digested and then is not properly eliminated the body treats as an abnormal substance.

The body becomes ingeniously resourceful faced with substances it cannot metabolize or eliminate. It breaks them down into minute particles and distributes them to remote areas of the body, way from vital organs to minimize harm.

The body takes the poisons out-of-the-way but 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.

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 the consumption of the raw plant diet as an adult will make a difference in the texture of skin and hair, the health of nails, weight and complexion. All of these traits and more are determined by daily choices, with food being one of the most important and, luckily, the one over which we have fully control.

The ability to renew cells is built into your body, and the 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 the most of this rejuvenating ability of our bodies. Rawsome beauty is not manufactured from the outside but cultivated from the inside by nutritionally charged food.

Whole raw food restores the integrity of every cell and facilitates the optimal operation of every organ inside and out. The body, having been awakened by the improved diet, in its wisdom, will reach out to the places where health was lacking, and you will gradually see your beauty surfacing. The Rawsome diet will eliminate all the toxins on a deeper level and bring amazing changes to your appearance.

The Bible says in Esther 2:9, that Esther was provided with some beauty treatments and special food before facing King Xerxes. The Bible does not specify what kind of food was used, but I believe it had to be God's original diet that is mentioned in Genesis 1:29 where "God said, 'See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.'" Special food together with oil treatment and cosmetics were part of Esther's beauty rituals for twelve months. Like Esther, it will take about a year for your face and body to reach its full beauty potential.

The landscape of the body will change. The surface of the skin will become soft and smooth but 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 the places where it is needed as in hollow cheeks.The artistic ability of your body will amaze you.

It will look as if a sculptor is chiseling your face and body. It's amazing how the fat deposits will disappear at the right spots. All excesses will be eliminated. Everything that is bumpy or lumpy will be smoothed or straightened. Everything that is dull will be illuminated. The features will be carved until a lovely face surfaces, and the skin will be polished until it glows. Raw food eating will clarify and refine your features and bring delicacy to your face.

Regular features are not essential for the whole effect to be seen as beautiful.

You will marvel at how the Master Artist will make the most of your individual features and bring balance to the entire face. Texture, hues, and shape will be harmoniously arranged into a genteel whole. Perfection and imperfection will be tied together into a unique original version of beauty.Only the body sustained on raw food will host natural beauty, or should we say Rawsome beauty.

People who have been on the raw food lifestyle for several years begin to have a glow, the kind not often seen in middle-aged people. Optimal health is recognized by an emerging radiance. Glow is hard to fake because it is internal. It comes from an abundance of clear, pink, almost transparent cells that light up the face.

Only superior blood circulation can bring this transfiguring glow. Several years on the raw food diet will make you look as though you just stepped out of a painting by Renoir--the impressionist best known for his preoccupation with light.

From age 15 until recently, I wore my hair permed, only to discover at 45 that straight hair in my natural color was the best possible frame for my face. Did my preference change? Not at all. My face did. So let me give you a hint, if you need a camouflaging hairdo, you are not looking your best. The changes in your face brought about by raw foods will bring the freedom to arrange your hair in any way you want.

When your peer group is thinking: "I am losing my looks", you will be finding yours. At 45, I enjoy looking in the mirror while before I detested my reflection.

When a person starts to attend the gym regularly he or she becomes aware of trained bodies. The same phenomenon occurs with the raw food diet. You begin to see how much people's appearance differs from their optimal one. Each time I see a woman, I study her appearance, and I see not only the way she looks but also the way she could look.

What I see is how far her image digresses from her potential beauty. I perceive her beauty as it will stand out after the body has cleansed itself from toxins and excesses.I have come to believe if you embrace the 100 percent raw food diet, you will meet The Most Beautiful You. The best proof that the Rawsome diet is optimal for the body is it makes you beautiful. Slim face, slender waist, and clear skin with smooth coloration-these subtle changes will convince you the raw plant diet is the best for good health and graceful beauty.© 2003 -- Tonya Zavasta

Tonya Zavasta is the author of the book Your Right to Be Beautiful: How to Halt the Train of Aging and Meet the Most Beautiful You and of the soon to be published its sequel Beautiful on Raw. In these books Tonya comes across as an ambassador for plain looking women in their quest for physical beauty.

Tonya knows firsthand what it is to be humiliated, face adversity and meet the complex obstacles of daily living with a congenital disability. Facing several reconstructive hip surgeries to enable her to walk, she sought a way to offset the devastating effects of anesthetics on her health and appearance. She became more and more convinced that the solution to her quest for health and beauty was to be found in the raw food lifestyle or the Rawsome Diet as she calls it.

The Rawsome Diet not only helped her to sail courageously through troublesome times, brought her general health and appearance to an all time best, but also opened a new chapter of her life. Firmly believing that the roots of under-performing and under-achieving lie in feeling and looking less than your personal best, she is on a mission: she wants every woman to look and feel beautiful. Tonya is convinced that by eating as God intended everyone can look uniquely beautiful as God envisioned.

To learn more about how you can uncover your Rawsome beauty, visit: http://curezone.com/blogs/www.beautifulonraw.com

**RAW Healing Story**

Healing Through a Raw Foods Dietby Shelly BorsitsMy nightmare began at the end of 1996. At 25 I was what society would consider healthy. I ate what I thought was a well balanced diet and I was fit and very active. I felt good, had a great boyfriend, now husband, and life was good.

How drastically everything would change.I started to fall ill. Terribly ill. It began with a migraine that came one day and never left. Accompanying the migraine was a pain at the base of my skull and severe muscle tightness, and pain.

My muscles in my neck and shoulders became as hard as rocks and nothing would relax them.Over the next six years I would bounce from various types of doctors and specialists in the allopathic medical community (conventional medicine). No doctor could help me and my list of symptoms kept getting longer.

Added to the debilitating migraines and muscle tightness, fatigue and pain was 50 lb weight gain, extreme excitability, and nervousness, panic attacks, shortness of breath, great loss of libido, painful intercourse, fibrocystic breasts, irregular heart beat, chronic sinus infections, yeast infections, lowered immune system and more.

My body was falling apart.

I felt like a 20 something trapped in the body of an 80 year old - but not a healthy 80 year old, a dying 80 year old.I was taking all of the drugs the doctors were prescribing to me but none of them helped me. In fact, they only made my condition worse. I was suicidal from the pain. I was merely existing, not living. All the while I was trying to 'pretend' to family and friends that I was 'alright'. I had to go about daily life. I had to function.No X-ray, MRI, CT Scan or blood test could find anything wrong with me. Every test said 'you are not sick', but I was in torturous pain.

If I had to go around family and friends I would take Excedrin migraines, make my appearance, and then come home and drop in exhaustion from the pain and pretending. Sometimes pretending to feel 'good' was harder than living in pain. My husband watched me cry every day from the pain. My muscles were so hard, so sore, he couldn't even touch me to massage me to try and alleviate some of the pain.Thank God for a wonderful man!

He stuck by me every step of the way and helped me with everything. Normal every day chores, like washing the dishes caused me terrible pain. I would have to the dishes sitting on a stool because my legs were to sore to hold me up. I could not bend over to tie my shoes without an intense feeling of strangulation. I would start to black out every time I bent over.

My husband would tie my shoes for me many days as just tilting my head downward would cause me to feel as if I was going to pass out.

I also started to lose feeling in my face and extremities. One day it was so bad my mother thought I was having a stroke and rushed me to the doctor. After about 10 minutes in his office the symptoms started to subside. This loss of feeling would come and go over a period of a couple of years but my doctor could never find a 'reason' as to why it was happening.

I was eventually told by a doctor that he thought I had Fibromyalgia and that it was incurable. He said he could give me drugs to make it a little more 'livable', but that it could not be cured.

I turned to the Internet to do research on Fibromyalgia and I found a story of a women who had fallen ill after having taken the birth control injections of depo provera. That made a light bulb go off in my head.The doctor who told me he believed I was suffering from Fibromyalgia said: "Shelly you've been coming in her since January 1997 with these exact same symptoms. Did you have a car accident or a fall, blow to the head, anything around that time?" I told him "No", but then it hit me. I had started the injections of birth control around that time.

I found out when my first shot was by calling the doctors office who had given them to me years earlier.My first shot was in November of 1996. By January of 1997 I was already at my third doctor with complaints of migraines, pain at the base of my skull and muscle pain and tightness. All three doctors told me it could not be the shots making me sick so I never thought of it again. I should have trusted my instincts, but hindsight is 20/20.I put my story online at:www.abcinternetmarketing.com/depo-provera

Almost instantly women all over the world started to email me, telling me their horror stories about what happened to them as a result of the birth control related injections of depo provera.At that point I turned my back on conventional medicine. I refused to believe Fibromyalgia was incurable. I couldn't continue with life if it meant dealing with this severe pain on a daily basis. I did leave conventional medicine, but very unfortunately, I jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire.I decided to try alternative therapies, but there too I was lost.

Nothing was working. I was lost in the maze of alternative healing. I spent thousands of dollars but I never got well. I tried homeopathic remedies, whole system health scan, cranio sacral therapy, deep tissue massage, etc., etc., but nothing worked. The pain was still there and on the homeopathic drops I was once again getting worse.I told myself at that point 'You have two choices, 1) get well or 2) die'. Again I was suicidal from the pain and the frustration that nothing I did would alleviate the pain.God answered my prayers and got me in the hands of a nutritionist named Paula who put me on a 30 day raw food diet, followed by a two week juice fast. After those six weeks I went to a vegan diet for months which was 'high raw', at 80 to 90% raw.Currently I am 100% raw and feeling MARVELOUS.

I don't know if I will go back to cooked vegan foods ever, it is too early to say. I had to make more than just dietary changes - I also had to make strict lifestyle changes.I have incorporated daily exercise, fresh air, with at least a 1/2 hour outdoors daily, sunshine, rest, both physical and mental, and I had to let go of all negativity.

I had to let go of any anger or hatred that I held towards others. I also had to remove myself from being around negative people.

You can all probably relate to this. Do you have anyone in your life that puts you in a bad mood just because they are always so negative and in bad moods? If so, you will have to stay away from these negative people. It is an entire dietary and lifestyle change that must be made.I had a lot of 'un' learning to do. Everything I had been taught about nutrition and health was wrong. The doctor's drugs are not safe. The doctor's drugs do not cure, only our bodies can cure, and they can only do that if we set for them the proper conditions to do so.

While depo provera was by far the worst thing that has ever happened to me in life, it was also the best thing to have ever happened to me too! Had I not fallen so desperately ill I do not know if I would have ever made a change to this new lifestyle of natural hygiene (plant-based vegan diet, raw food, exercise, physical and mental rest, sunshine, pure water, fresh air).I believe everything that happens to us in life happens to us for a specific reason. I wholeheartedly believe that God intended for me to learn the lessons of natural hygiene, and that is why I had to take the journey I did.

Whether it was just to help myself, or whether it was for the purpose of being able to share my information with others, I'll never know. One thing is for certain, I'm thankful for it.For more information on Shelly's book Dying To Get Well, the detailed, step-by-step accounts she took to CURE her so-called, 'incurable' disease, go to her web site:http://www.dyingtogetwell.com/

For free online support about the raw foods diet, natural hygiene principles, fasting, etc. please go to her message boards at:http://pub41.ezboard.com/bdepoprovera

To view Shelly's dramatic before (while sick) and after pictures please go :http://www.rawandjuicy.com/shelly.html

To view Shelly's Depo Provera Horror Stories web site please go to:http://www.abcinternetmarketing.com/depo-provera