Product Description

Advice on how to become more attractive often comes from those blessed with exceptional beauty to begin with. Yet a woman born to beauty instructing others on how to become beautiful is like a winner of the lottery teaching people how to make a fortune in diligent enterprise! In contrast, Tonya leads by her shining example to empower you to take responsibility for your own appearance and health. Placed by a physical disability in a disadvantaged position, Tonya was nevertheless able to fulfill her long-cherished dream of becoming beautiful despite adversity and being over the age of 40.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #632979 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10
• Binding: Paperback
• 362 pages

From the Publisher
Your Right to Be Beautiful: How to Halt the Train of Aging and Meet the Most Beautiful You was named a 2003 Health Book of the Year Award finalist for ForeWord Magazine's annual contest. It offers revolutionary solution to our rapidly aging society on how to restore health, to regain youthfulness and to reclaim physical attractiveness through the Rawsome Diet. The book addresses the integrated relationship between health and beauty and reflects the author's six years journey in the raw food lifestyle.

From the Author
There is no natural beauty without 100% natural food. The lack of beauty, especially in people over forty, is the result of the consumption of devitalized and denatured foods. Cooked food depletes the body's enzyme reserves and damages its rejuvenating power. On the hand, the Rawsome Diet of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds in their raw state will help your body to make the most of its revitalizing abilities. By restoring the integrity of every cell and by facilitating the operation of every organ, it will bring your weight to its ideal mark, refine your features and add delicacy to your face.

About the Author
Facing several reconstructive hip surgeries to enable her to walk, author Tonya Zavasta sought a way to offset the devastating effects of anesthetics on her health and appearance. Using the same determination and intelligence that allowed her to achieve advanced degrees in engineering and mathematics, she immersed herself in scientific data on health and nutrition. She became more and more convinced that the solution to her lifelong quest for beauty and health was to be found in raw food lifestyle or the Rawsome Diet as she calls it. Tonya has been following the raw food lifestyle since 1997. The raw food lifestyle 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 in her life.

Firmly believing that the roots of under-performing and under-achieving lie in feeling and looking less than your best, she is now on a mission: she wants every woman to look and feel beautiful. In her seminars, Tonya Zavasta- a dynamic motivational speaker and standup comedienne--delivers unforgettable messages about the possibilities available in personal transformation. Through her own example and lifestyle, she demonstrates how to transform yourself from sick and weak to vigorous and youthful, from plain to beautiful, and from insecure to self-confident.

Customer Reviews

A nutrition writer's view
I have mixed opinions. If someone wants a treatise on being beautiful, or about the struggles of a person wishing to be beautiful, this might be quite injoyable reading. Tonya's personal testimony of what a total raw food vegan diet has done for her is impressive and believable. The book is not for me. I searched long and hard for reliable information for my book HONEST NUTRITION, and now hope to find good material for a book about how to prevent degenerative diseases. I would like good scientific studies on this kind of diet, or at least some honest opinions, and have not found it. Tonya uses every claim whe can find to support her viewpoint, including many clearly false or doubtful claims. It would have been a much better book if she had only told what she knew, without many pages of useless arguments.

This woman is deranged... don't buy this book
I was extremely disturbed by the psychotic rants of this woman begining with her obsessive envy of her 'friend'. If anything, she is the one who sounds like Scarlet O'Hara and 'coldly vain', a term which just drips with evil envy for the woman she beheld, who she had to devalue and savage morally in order to compensate for her own demonic envy. The premise of this book is a huge turn off. Even if a woman is born beautiful, she has to work with what she has and maintain it.

Beauty is like a sacred flame in a temple, you are a vestal virgin tending it, making choices that feed and preserve that instead of destroy it. There are some men who are more handsome or more athletically gifted than others, but while men may envy them, it is always in the spirit of admiration, not in the vile devaluing that women do. This author is so stupid. She reminds me of the evil step-sisters in Cinderella aping for the prince. She is so narcissistic and projecting all of her envious bile on those born beautiful - who still have to work at it, just as if you inherited a beautiful house or a musical instrument you do not let it fall into disrepair. If anything, you have even more of an honor-bound duty to do this, out of respect, integrity and gratitude and love, yes love. Of course this author condems this as 'cold vanity' (a projection if there ever was one) because in her envy, she cannot stand that the envied 'object' would dare to love that which 'she' did not feel she had and envied, leveling hate that still echoes.

The author of this book is like a puff adder, so full of poison and bloated up with narcissistic grandiosity at her supposed achievment that any illusion of beauty she achieved is wiped away, and I saw the ugly woman that was and still is. Her soul is not beautiful. This is a lesson in itself. It is a lesson on the complex mystery of beauty. If you do not cultivate the soul, the spirit, the mind, you are missing the point of beauty and allure.

We come to resemble that which we most love, not that which we most seethe against and hate. To the readers and prospective buyers I would say this, do not give this pathetic narcissist any mind. Do not buy her book. If you want to be beautiful, love beauty. Love beauty and appreciate it in all things, and most importantly in other women. Beauty is ecstacy and to allow yourself to feel this, to react to this will bring a blush to your cheek and make it the natural flow that you would want to make choices to cultivate this in yourself; for only then will you ignite the incandescence of beauty and allure in yourselves.

Best book on raw for Beauty AND Health
Tonya's down to earth story telling of compelling journey not only to the USA but also to raw and live foods is one of the best books on the raw or live foods lifestyle. She combines a beautiful inspirational story with excellent tips and advice for making the transition to Raw yourself.

Raw is a complete lifestyle change, but Tonya makes it easy, understandable and POSSIBLE to do. She teaches you to cultivate your natural beauty, your birthright, in clear, easy to understand language.

She is inspiring, knowledgeable, and gives you the impression that she genuinely cares for your success as you, too, transition to the most beautiful you that you can be...RAW.

She explores, discusses and finally blows wide open many common misconceptions on Beauty, nutrition and healthy eating in an intelligent, no nonsense and entertaining manner.

Her recipes are excellent...food selections, shopping tips and resource lists are healthful and helpful.

It's not just about the diet and Tonya makes that clear...this is a lifestyle and she explores the other avenues of that as well...with discussions on style, hair care, exercise, behavior...the total mind/body package...

With "Your Right To Be Beautiful"...beauty is MORE than skin deep. With Tonya, you have all the tools to claim that right.

How do I know?

Last year I was mistaken for being in my early forties, BUT....a few days ago...someone mistook me for my 17 year old daughter; AGAIN...I am 37.

These days....according to a popular online health and lifestyle survey, I am 23 years old, physiologically and lifestyle speaking...

Ageing is not a fact of life, in "Your Right To Be Beautiful," Tonya teaches what the facts really are....

"We can all be beautful."