Vegetarianism and Beauty

The most perfect specimens of the human body harmony found only between those tribes who do not eat meat and are abstinent life. (Graham)

When Europeans discovered in one of the small islands of the Philippine archipelago, the tribe that was found on the level of development in the stone age, they were astonished healthy and youthful view of these people: slender figure, preserved in old teeth, the absence of disease. These people were known use of fire, they were able to make tools out of metal, and, therefore, could not kill animals and roast their meat. These were real vegetarians, raw-foodists. Europeans quickly introduce them to the achievements of civilization, gave the gun, learn to use fire. Representatives of the tribe began to eat meat, and after a while - to suffer from obesity and disease. These facts require no comment.

The concept of beauty has always been associated in our minds with the health and harmony of shapes. Beauty in antiquity - is primarily a harmonious body. Slender beauty of the human body, captured in the paintings of great artists Giorgione and Botticelli, captivates us. Renaissance in art featured chanting nudity. That's it, not a person, his expression, the focus of the artist. The cult of the body beautiful in the works of artists of the Renaissance felt primarily in the composition of the picture. For example, the compositional center of the painting "Sleeping Venus" Giorgione is not the face of a young woman and her beautiful figure.

This beauty of a person can be awarded by nature. But beauty can give a person and lifestyle. And not the last role is played by vegetarianism, which offers a natural person for a way of eating.

In fact, how attractive energetic, lively, cheerful people, not suffering from ailments. And it was vegetarian food gives people energy and vivacity. Attractiveness would like to keep as long as possible: longevity, which is vegetarian also means preservation of physical attractiveness.

However, there is another kind of beauty which attracted great painters: El Greco Rublev, Theophanes the Greek. This - the internal beauty of a person, a reflection of her facial expression, gestures. In the works of these artists sought to translate into art mental state of a person's internal characteristics. The task of artists was paradoxical - pass through the visible eye that can not be seen. In the works of these artists are brought people, not beauty captivates the lines of the body, on the contrary, with the broken body proportions: the figures are pulled up, people hit thin. But these persons or burning ecstasy, which emphasized gestures and glowing deep kindness, and pose expressed gentleness, peace of mind. This is a completely different beauty: devoid of perfect proportions and lines, it can conquer more than the outer perfection, because it is closely connected with kindness, generosity, spiritual man.