Tonya Zavasta at 52 on Calorie Restriction Diet

How to Look Twenty Years Younger

Do you want to become beautiful? I always wanted to. My heart burned when I beheld someone else’s beauty. When I was born my hip joints were severely damaged—especially on the right side, making one leg much shorter than the other. Surgeries consumed my childhood. I spent endless months in a cast, but nothing, they said, could be done. Some kids called me a “cripple.” No chance I’d ever make to the cover of a magazine. 
 

I’d have settled for normal. I dreamed one day I would walk without a limp. I remember thinking: What if that day comes when I am in my forties, fifties, even sixties? I just had to find a way to look youthful and beautiful when it finally happened. I became interested in people who looked ten, even twenty years younger than their chronological ages. There was something magic about them.

It didn’t happen at twenty. Nor thirty. I continued to search. Finally, at age 52, I’m called “beautiful” often enough to believe it.

Nothing—not my Russian origins, my prevailing over my physical afflictions, or my achievements in education and business—have ever drawn so much interest as my greatly improved appearance in the last several years. “What’s your beauty secret?” The question always comes up sooner or later.


There’s no “secret” here! By following the raw food diet and lifestyle, I have achieved the beauty, wholeness and wellness I’ve sought all my life. I believe in the power of the raw food diet, and more broadly the raw food lifestyle, for changing lives and fortunes. Raw food diet works. Raw food lifestyle—adding other sound health and beauty practices to a basic raw food regimen—work even better.


I’m not “inherently” beautiful. Not cover-girl pretty. Lord knows I wasn’t born with the “good genes” some runway models are. Yet there I am, at age 51, on the cover of Get Fresh! magazine. Not bad for a crippled kid, is it? Yet I can’t take the credit. The raw foods lifestyle deserves that. A raw food diet…and a regimen of health and beauty practices consistent with what a raw foods diet can do…that has made all the difference!

See what a raw food diet and beauty regime can do for you…Read on: Why Raw Food?

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