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At 35 I had beautiful waist length hair, smooth skin and was told I looked 26. I had been a model so I was really into glamour and looking as perfect as I possibly could. Then one day I became very ill. I developed skin rashes all over my face and body so severe that I could not even wash my face because my skin burned and peeled off. I had migraine headaches with severe vomiting. Suddenly, all the glamour was gone.

After several years of being virtually bedridden, my parents phoned saying that I better not show myself around them. Visiting me was too depressing for them. I was no longer presentable to appear at functions with them. I was absolutely devastated.

A few years later, I found Tonya Zavasta’s website www.beautifulonraw.com for the raw food diet and read about her transformation. I ordered the books that very night and started the raw diet transition. Within days, I saw my skin rashes fade, my migraines become just a dull headache and within 4 months, I was washing my skin and starting to use skin care products. By month six, I was wearing make-up and my hair began to shine again. After 15 months of raw foods, I was wearing the latest fashions and people were asking me for my secret to beautiful skin.

After 8 years, my parents asked to see me again. All the years that my husband had cared for me on his own, I had wondered what I would do if they called. I used to think I would never speak to them again. But 15 months on raw foods had altered my outlook and I agreed to a visit. They were shocked. “You look so healthy”, they said. My father commented that he had not seen me look this alive since I was 17. They stared at my husband also because he had was 15 months raw food then. My father actually sat next to me on the sofa and put his face about 6 inches from mine and stared at me as if I was a goddess.

I saw how frail and sick they had become on cooked food. I could not do to my parents what they had done to me years earlier. This is where the spiritual changes from the raw food diet really took over. Now I try to help them as much as I can because the raw food diet has given me inner strength and compassion for others. I feel that God resides in a clean healthy body

The last 2 years on the raw food diet have been an amazing journey. I could not recommend a more fulfilling path to walk. My parents now endeavor to change their eating habits. A few weeks ago, a woman told to my father:
-”Oh I met your granddaughter earlier today when she came in with your wife”.
“That was not my granddaughter “- my father said. “Susan is my daughter and she is 54 years old”. The woman keep insisting: “I really thought it was your granddaughter because she only looked about 35″. “Are you really sure it was not your granddaughter”. My dad does not give a compliment to anyone. I could see he was proud telling us about this event. After all the years that they made fun of how old and ill I looked this was far better than I could ever imagined.