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Anniversary Issue

May 15, 2007

LOOKING BACK…. 
This issue marks the first anniversary of Natural Champion 
magazine. What started as a proverbial ‘labor of love’ 
that – quite candidly – we weren’t sure would make it past 
one issue has grown from an embryonic beginning of less 
than ten pages to what we’re told is the largest magazine 
devoted to drug free fitness and athletics on the entire 
internet. 
 
On the cover of the May, 2006 issue we stated the 
following: 
 
“We want to welcome you to the Premier Issue of Natural 
Champion, the online magazine devoted to developing drug 
free champions. 
 
Our mission at Natural Champion is to promote physical 
excellence without the use of harmful and illegal 
performance enhancing drugs. Each month we’ll provide 
information – and hopefully, inspiration, to help you 
develop the very highest standards of peak physical 
performance and vibrant, life-long health.” 
 
And at the bottom of the page we signed off with…”We invite 
you to join us on our journey.” 
 
In ways it’s hard to believe that a whole year has passed 
since we fired up the computer and saw the that first cover 
with the Natural Champion logo and the words “The Natural 
Champion…Premier Issue” set in red against a black 
background, with a photo of Charles Hawkins, drug free Mr. 
Universe, punctuating the page. 
 
The journey has been by turns trying and exhilarating, far 
more work than we anticipated and far more rewarding than 
we ever imagined. Along the way we have made some 
wonderful new friends and re-connected with some wonderful 
‘old’ friends. We are grateful to have made it this far, 
and grateful to you, our loyal readers, for joining us on 
the journey. 
 
Because Natural Champion magazine is still relatively new 
to the internet and because a lot of our readers are still 
new to Natural Champion and have not read the earlier 
issues, we’d like to look back over the past year and 
review some of the columns and the personalities that 
inspired us and instructed us. We invite you to read anew 
or re-read and to contact us and let us know what you think 
about past articles and columns and what you’d like to see 
in future issues. 
 
And now for the year in review… 
 
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