Your Right to Be Beautiful: How to Halt the Train of Aging and Meet the Most Beautiful You
Your Right to Be Beautiful: How to Halt the Train of Aging and Meet the Most Beautiful You
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.
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars 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.
5 Stars Great Health and Beauty Tips
This book is full of great tips and information for good health which results in good looks. This is not a book of recipes but rather the authors story of how she turned her life and health around with a raw lifestyle and natural living. Very enjoyable.
5 Stars Convinced me to go RAW!
My boyfriend had recently transitioned to raw foods and kept professing the benefits, along with the “evils” of cooked food and how it had led humanity to today’s diseases. I couldn’t comprehend how a lovingly-cooked meal could be so bad. I juiced regularly and used mostly whole foods to prepare meals for me and my children, but the whole “raw” thing seemed like an irrationally fanatical step in health that was, basically, pushing it too far. One sunny summer afternoon, however, I picked up this simple-looking red book, which he had brought over, and began reading, as I caught some relaxation in the sun. I was captivated immediately!
I personally enjoy reading-material that allows me to sink my teeth into the scientific principles of the subject matter at hand and, although Tonya has a very scientific mind, which is more evident in some of her later works, she writes “Your Right to be Beautiful” in an engaging, relatable style with her own unique twist of humor and story-telling that has broad general appeal. She intertwines common sense logic with scientific principles and tells her story largely from the desolate and disadvantaged conditions of her home country, Russia. With this as a backdrop, the logic she was trying to convey through her personal stories seemed more penetrable, perhaps, in which certain extremes highlighted what precisely was attributable to certain diseases or insufficiencies in the human condition. On the subject of dairy, for instance, I had read numerous sources regarding research on the human body’s difficulty in digesting this food as a protein, but until I read Tonya’s anecdote on the subject, had never been convinced of its realities as a dietary compromise and motivated to give it up.
As I contiued to read on, the whole concept of “raw” that my boyfriend had been professing suddenly took on new light, with its depth of logic ripening before me with each chapter I finished. Of course, the real beauty is when you start transitioning to the raw food lifestyle, which this book motivated me to do unlike any other, and see the tremendous advantages of eating “raw” flower before you in your reflection in the mirror. Tonya also makes the most convincing argument for beauty that I’ve ever heard or read, and highlights it in terms of achieving one’s own unique beauty, while dispelling so many of the culturally-inherited concepts of beauty that lead to our demise and confusion as women and as a culture. She further underscores this right, in her captivating story-telling fashion, and paints a world of achievable and “beautiful” realities with the principles of inner-body “organ” beauty, according to what we choose to eat, and how the condition of our inner bodies relates to our outer beauty and how to align both with the raw food lifestyle.
This is one book that I read numerous times over and even gave away to my sister-in-law, Tammy, who lives serveral hours away, hoping she’d be as captivated as I was, as she was struggling with numerous health concerns and couldn’t conceive of the food-health relation. What a sacrifice, though, as there’s been so many times that I’ve wanted to refer to this book since and have regretted not having it at my disposal. I’ll be sure not to part with it again once I have it back in my possession. Everyone else will just have to get their own copy! Check out Tonya’s Beautiful on Raw website for more of her unique concepts on beauty and health.
5 Stars Over 50 and still with it
An incredible book! It’s very realistic! Yes, we do suffer from illness we didn’t intend to cause. She give’s you the mental kick to stop your downward spiral and get with it. As you do, you will become the one in control of your beauty. I am much happier with my appearance and my life. I own many health books but have still been Until I started on the advice from Ms. Zavasta, I could NOT loose weight!! I have tried for 14 years. But with this woman’s council, I have lost 22 pounds so far. My skin is better. My hands are moving easier, my personal life is 100 percent better, which has improved my relationship with my husband and I sleep much better at night. I have been doing this books’ program for three months now, and it works for me. But if you aren’t positive about improving your life, nothing is going to help you. You have to GO FOR IT!! I think the greatest obstacle I have had to my own health and beauty program has been lack of hope. I just couldn’t believe that I could “resurrect the dead” you could say. I’m old enough to be wrinkled and nobody will care but myself. But I do care. I’m finding that her principles are true. They work. (I also puchased Alyssa Cohens “Living on Live Food plus her DVD to help me with my cooking skills.!) (There are recipes in Ms Zavastas book but I wanted a larger variety) So be happy girls, and be beautiful too. 
1 Stars 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.
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