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A Day With Brian Clement

 

We're delighted to announce that The Fresh Network is hosting another Brian Clement event this year!

After a sold-out event last June, we are excited to welcome back this world-renowned expert from the Hippocrates Health Institute in Florida. Brian has spent the past three decades conducting ground-breaking research into nutrition and health, ensuring that what he shares is always right at the cutting edge.

Go here to find out more...

'Annelie's Raw Food Power' Book Competition Giveaway - Competition CLOSED

 

We've joined forces with the publishers of Annalie's Raw Food Power, Ivy Press, to giveaway 3 copies of Annelie Whitfield's new book. 

With more than fifty delicious, nutrient rich recipes Annalie's Raw Food Power is an inspiring introduction to the world of raw food.

Just send us your answer to the question below and we'll randomly draw 3 lucky winners.

Hippocrates Living Foods Programme

Hippocrates Living Foods Programme

A Day of Practical Preparation Demos 

with Nadia Brydon & Jill Swyers, Hippocrates Health Educators

Sunday June 30th , 10-30am - 4.30pm. lunch provided, London SW6.

£70 early booking.

Go here to reserve your seat www.allaboutnaturalmedicine.com. Or call 020 8350 4607 / 07984 592626

Quick, Easy and Creative Ideas for Healthful Lunches for Children

 by Karen Ranzi, M.A.

Much research in the past decade has reported the immense benefits of eating mainly fresh plant foods, or eating them exclusively. Raw fruits and vegetables, sprouts, sea vegetables, nuts and seeds are vitamin and mineral packed. Nutrients can be severely depleted from 70 to 85% by means of the cooking process. Organic, living foods provide “life force energy,” so encouraging children to create healthful and tasty snacks, smoothies, salads, main dishes and desserts with living foods can enhance their abilities in all areas.

After increasing their children’s fresh plant food intake, here are some improvements in their health and wellbeing parents have pointed out to me: Reduction or absence of eye, ear, nose and throat infections, increased energy and longer attention spans, enhanced ability to process information, less hyperactivity, strengthened immune systems, enhanced athletic performance, and increased brainpower.

What Do Our Readers Say About Get Fresh! Magazine And Who Are They?

       

Have you heard about our much-acclaimed magazine? Have you ever wondered if it is for you?

Well read below to see if you have the same interests as our readers and find out if you would enjoy reading Get Fresh! 

Recently we asked readers of our magazine to let us know a bit about themselves and what they think of Get Fresh! by completing a questionnaire.  

It’s great to know that they care enough about the magazine to participate! 

Here's what we found out! 

Spend A Day with Dr. Brian Clement and The Fresh Network

 

VENUE: Camden Centre, Camden Town Hall, Judd Street, London, WC1H 9JE 
(Opposite King's Cross & St Pancras station.)


DATE: Sunday 23rd June 2013 

TIME: 11.30am-3.30pm  

Go here to book your early bird tickets for just £22.00 before 31st March 2013.

 

Seminar with Dr. Brian Clement

After a sold out event last year, we are proud and honored to be hosting this world-renowned leader in the living foods diet and one of the most sought after speakers in the fields of optimum nutrition and holistic health today.

We invite you to join us at The Fresh Network's Inspirational and Informative event with Dr. Brian Clement PhD, Director of the Hippocrates Institute in Florida.

 

 Power of Living Foods to Heal Disease & Conquer Ageing 

'A Day with Dr Brian Clement' will be held in the Camden Centre, London on the 23rd June where he will be discussing the 'Power of Living Foods to Heal Disease & Conquer Ageing.'


 

Dr Clement will address the basic and extraordinary mechanisms that bring about heightened and balanced immunity.

 

Spot the week's craziest health story

By Sarah Best.

"Babies need solid food - not just breast milk" shouted the front page headline of yesterday's Times, in just one manifestation of a story that appeared across the mainstream media. "Experts warn of disease and allergy risk," continued the report. "Mothers should not feed their babies on exclusively breast milk for the first six months because of the risk of the infants developing allergies, child health experts warn today."

"The government announced that it would review research on breastfeeding from child health doctors who wrote in the British Medical Journal that the existing policy could leave babies more likely to suffer harmful deficiencies, food allergies and disease that causes food intolerance."

And today's Independent carries the unsurprising headline, "New breastfeeding advice leaves mothers angry and confused".

Wherever there is contradictory scientific evidence, and therefore advice - and show me a realm of nutrition where there isn't - there is no better remedy than a dose of common sense.

Before we had jarred, pureed baby foods (and blenders so we could whizz up our own) at what age would human infants have started eating solid foods? Presumably, only when they had enough teeth for the endeavour. And the number of teeth the average infant under six months has is precisely zero. 

Did nature make a mistake? We can probably assume not. 

How can the raw, fresh, whole, unprocessed food that nature provides for babies cause allergies or deficiencies in little ones who don't yet have the anatomy to be able to consume any other natural food? Only if the mother's diet is deficient, or contains foods which are allergenic.

This study may well have highlighted an issue that needs addressing but unfortunately the headlines and reports it generated will only serve to discourage women from following the World Health Organization's clear guideline to breastfeed exclusively for six months - advice that, according to statistics, less than 20% of UK and US mothers are following.

By the age of just three months well over half of our babies are existing on a diet of cooked, powdered, highly processed dairy or soya formula, full of alien and potentially allergenic substances they would never have been exposed to in nature, including synthetic vitamins and minerals, but devoid of the elaborate symphony of raw nutrients their bodies are (literally, a lot of the time) crying out for. 

There is certainly a big problem with deficiencies and allergies among our infants - one with potential lifelong repercussions on digestion, immunity and overall health - but most of the cases are not to be found among the privileged few who are fed the way nature intended. 

Dairy didn't work for me, says Debbie Took

2010 has been a year of fierce debate among raw food fans about whether or not our optimal diet is a vegan one. We first chimed in on this topic in January with our article Why the shift away from veganism in the raw world?, and again in February when Doug Graham and Thomas Billings debated the topic in the article Is 100% raw vegan our optimal diet? Later that month we revisited it in Are YOU getting enough vitamin D?

Popular raw food blogger Debbie Took contributed interesting material to the debate in March and April when she announced that she had tested below the normal range in vitamin B12 - B12 being one of the biggest deficiency risks among vegans. 

A raw vegan for around three and a half years at the time, she was forced to choose between taking supplements - something she didn't believe in - and compromising on the vegan part - something else she was dead set against doing. She tells the full story around this tough decision in her articles Debbie Does B12 Part 1 and Part 2.

She eventually decided that compromising on the vegan part was the lesser of two evils - largely because it was the more natural solution of the two - and she added a little soft cheese to her diet. However, she found raw cheese near impossible to source, and as for ethically produced - that unfortunately does not exist at this time. So she was forced to compromise not only on (1) her vegan diet but also on (2) her raw diet and (3) her strong desire not to cause suffering to other sentient beings. Nonetheless, for a while this decision still seemed to be the best option available to her.

However, Debbie privately emailed me an update recently, and I asked her permission to share this information with you, as it is written with such honesty and openness. At a time when there is still so much we don't know about optimum nutrition, all such accounts have something to teach us, and I know this one will resonate with many of you. Debbie kindly agreed to have her comments made public, and you can read them by clicking below. Thank you, Debbie, for sharing your experiences with me, and with our readers.

The beautifying effects of plant foods - two recent news articles

Science is only just beginning to understand the countless beneficial properties of phytonutrient-rich plant foods. In this article, find out about how such foods can protect your skin against sun damage.

This article details recent research which found that the golden glow of a complexion nourished by fruit and vegetables is more attractive than a tan.

Interview with Rozalind Graham

Professor Rozalind Graham spent 18 years as one of the most active writers and speakers on the raw food circuit. She is revered as much for redefining what constitutes compassionate living as for her straight-talking logic in matters of nutrition and health. Her husband is raw food promoter Dr Douglas Graham and for the last five years she has been a full-time mother to their daughter, Faychesca. She rarely writes these days and if you have made it to one of her few speaking engagements you should count yourself lucky. In this exclusive interview, she talks to Sarah Best about her own transition to raw foods, and shares her insights into the reasons behind disordered eating, and the importance of reconnecting with our true nature.

You’ve been following the raw vegan diet for over 23 years and in that time you’ve also been one of the world’s leading promoters of it. But I think it’s accurate to say you first started out on the alternative lifestyle path for compassionate reasons rather than health ones?

Yes. As I grew up I started to become more and more aware of what I now call congruency, although I didn’t have a word for it at the time. I had a deep, deep love of animals so I knew it wasn’t appropriate to be causing suffering to these precious beings by eating them. I honestly don’t remember what age I was when I went vegetarian, but I do know I was just a child.

What led you from vegetarianism (and later veganism) to discovering and adopting the raw diet and lifestyle?

As a young adult I was teaching exercise classes and one of my students was an Anglo-Indian lady. When she started coming she was quite heavy and didn’t look very well. She was absent for some time and one day I was in the supermarket and I bumped trolleys with a stunning woman – sparkling eyes, amazing skin, shiny hair. I knew I knew her but couldn’t work out from where. When she told me who she was I was astounded and I had to ask her, “What’s your secret – it obviously wasn’t my classes!” She put a copy of the book Fit For Life in my trolley, told me to “Read that,” kissed me on the cheek and left!