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Get Fresh! Autumn 2007 issue / London Vegan Festival

The next issue of Get Fresh! magazine is now finished and here's a sneak peek at the cover.

It will be printing next week, UK subscribers will receive their copy by the publication date of September 1 and overseas readers shortly after.

Scroll down to the August 5 entry to read more about what is inside this fantastic issue...

The Fresh Network will be at the London Vegan Festival this Sunday. If past experience is anything to go by, ours will be the stand with the huge throng of people gathered round ooohing and aaahing. It's all thanks to the One Lucky Duck range of gourmet raw snacks that we we offer samples of at events such as this one. They're so insanely delicious they should be illegal.

We'll be selling a selection of other top quality raw food products, and supplements, and everything will be 20% off!!! We won't have books or kitchen equipment with us, but if you order these from us on Sunday you'll get a 10% discount and they'll be shipped the next day. So...if you can make it to Kensington Town Hall this Sunday between 10am and 8pm, it would be our pleasure to meet you!

Why going raw = going green

There was an article in Saturday's Times newspaper entitled: 'Walking does more than driving to cause global warming.' Sound outrageous? That's exactly what it is...if you eat a vegan diet. No prizes for guessing that the calculations were based on beef or dairy fuelling the exercise, in which case the shocking statement is true.

Chris Goodall, author of How To Live A Low-Carbon Life, calculated that: "Driving a typical car for 3 miles adds about 0.9kg of C02 to the atmosphere. If you walked instead, it would use 180 calories. You'd need about 100g of beef to replace those calories, resulting in 3.6kg of carbon emissions, or four times as much as driving." Replacing the calories with milk instead of meat would result in 1.2kg of CO2 being added to the atmosphere – still more pollution than the car journey.

But then we already knew that if we care about the environment, we are better off ditching meat and dairy than ditching our cars. Goodall's calculations were based on intensive cattle rearing systems used in Japan, which are similar to those used in Europe and the US. With the return of foot and mouth disease to the UK, it would be easy to suggest that rearing animals organically is the answer. But, reports the same article, from an ecological perspective, animals raised organically are actually worse for the environment because they emit more methane gas, which is 21 times more harmful than C02.

The next issue of the world's best nutrition and health magazine

If you've noticed I haven't posted here in a while, this is because I've been busy finalizing the upcoming Autumn 2007 issue of Get Fresh! magazine. And, well, I'm rather excited about it.

First of all, it is bigger than ever before. Not just a little bit bigger – a lot! We get such great feedback about this magazine we decided that one of the best things we could do to improve it further would be to give our readers more of what they love. It will be out on September 1 and highlights include:

·        Our Guide To Superfoods – forget all the hype; we've found the foods that will really take you furthest

·        The truth about vaccination

·        Chad Sarno with party food that is guaranteed to impress

·        Our exclusive interview with David Wolfe

·        Brian Clement on the holistic approach to cancer

·        Food combining: why it makes sense and how to practice it

·        Raw Food Coach Karen Knowler troubleshoots a client's lack of energy on a high-raw diet

·        The first installment of Sarma Melngailis's new regular column, Raw In The City

·        How to 'get the glow'

·        Rejuvenation – and it's not just about raw food!

·        Alissa Cohen on how to use a dehydrator, plus her favourite recipes

·        Top triathlete and environmental campaigner Brendan Brazier talks to us about peak performance, his transition to raw, and the effect of our food choices on the planet

·        How to make raw chocolate

·        Plus news, reviews, tips, useful contacts and much more

And as if all that isn't enough, it looks better than ever before too. When I posted about the last issue of Get Fresh! I called it the best ever – at that time it was! This one now takes that crown, but I can tell you already that Winter 2007 will soon steal it away! Unfortunately, it's just a little early to reveal why...

If you haven't yet subscribed to Get Fresh! and you're interested in raw foods, or, for that matter, health, nutrition, personal development or reducing your carbon footprint, you really should!

No other magazine in the world will give you better information on all of the above. That's not just our opinion; it's what we hear from our readers all the time.

We're offering great deals on subscriptions right now and all subscribers also get our exclusive package of free gifts. Read all about it here.