Tonya Zavasta is the author of seven pioneering books on the link between raw foods, optimal health and natural beauty. With a mathematics/science background, Tonya's comfort zone reaches from quantum physics to cellular metabolism to the salad bowl.Confronted with the necessity of extensive hip surgeries to enable her to walk normally, Tonya sought a lifestyle that would support her recovery and offset the ravages of multiple operations.Her tireless research led her to the beautifying powers of raw foods, and since the age of 39 Tonya has been following a 100 percent raw food lifestyle. Seventeen years later, she is walking testimony to the power of raw foods to bring out the natural beauty within all of us.Her books, Your Right to Be Beautiful and Beautiful On Raw are about how to radically improve your life, health and appearance through the raw food lifestyle. Her latest books Quantum Eating and Raw Food and Hot Yoga are an exploration of the most advanced anti-aging practices.Now in her mid 50s she radiates health in every sense of the word, and teaches "raw eating" all across the world.