Eat Your Way to Pretty

By Maia Michelle

A STRAIGHTFORWARD GUIDE TO ACHIEVING CLEAR SKIN. Eat Your Way to Pretty is about strengthening the connection to your body. Regardless of how unique your journey to health will be, Eat Your Way to Pretty provides 7 guidelines to aid you in narrowing down the necessary steps to experience a healthier state of existence. There is much wisdom to be gained through our afflictions. These pages serve as a reminder of your intuitive connection to your body and that health is result of knowing one's self. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Maia Michelle
• Release date: Apr 3, 2019
• ISBN: 9798223853275

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Experience is life’s greatest teacher. I learned so much about my body while suffering through skin issues, and I continue to learn. The body deserves to be viewed in a holistic manner. It is easier to understand root causes of issues when you allow your mind to be all-encompassing toward the body. When one organ is weak, then another will be weakened, setting off a chain reaction of some sort. Therefore, a specific manifestation of disease that seems more apparent in one organ will help us prioritize our health by focusing on that organ and the subsequent organs affected. I’ve also come to value the perspective that you should treat organs with equal levels of importance. It is a common approach in Western medicine that the removal of certain organs is seen as a viable option because the body can do without them. While the body might survive without a specific organ, it is counterintuitive to think that removing an intricate piece of a puzzle wouldn’t have an adverse effect on the whole.

For example, the spleen acts as a blood filter; it controls the amount of red blood cells and blood storage in the body and helps to fight infection by creating white blood cells. During a procedure called a splenectomy, the organ is removed. It is apparently okay to do so because your liver and lymph nodes can take over its duties. It is beautiful to know that your body is supportive of your survival and that it will do whatever is necessary to ensure you survive. But I’d rather have the whole squad of organs supporting me and providing me with all the support I can get. The body works tremendously hard to keep you alive, despite whatever external factors come your way. Instead of removing supportive members of your squad, why not keep them on your team? How can you continue to work with the organs you were given and be more supportive of them? Simply by allowing them to detox! When you work with your body through periodic fasting and by eating properly combined foods (fruits and vegetables), you