Monthly Archives: May 2009

"No excuses!" by Jean Dukes and Yoli Huron

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Are you looking for a great way to take your AIM business to the next level? Now that AIM has introduced AIM BarleyLife® Xtra and the new AIM Product Snapshots DVD (in addition to the extraordinary products and tools already available), we believe you don’t have any excuses to keep you from reaching your goals.

W e have developed a simple system to help you reach your objectives. Every time you see an * in this article, this means there is a form already created and available on the AIM website. Feel free to download these forms and change them to suit your needs. Click here for a list of the handouts available for download.

You may call this method a “demo,” a meeting, or simply a get together. Your goal is to gather people together in a comfortable setting to introduce them to the life-changing AIM products. Remember the KIDS principle—Keep It Duplicatible and Simple—so others can easily reproduce your efforts. People will do what you do, so, always keep things simple.
You can conduct meetings in your own home, in a downline Member’s, or even a customer’s home. Don’t focus on the numbers. Sometimes the most successful meeting is with one person who is passionate about turning their health around. Always remember to bathe your efforts in prayer for God’s guidance, wisdom, presence and blessings on your business.

The Preparation

If you are co-hosting a meeting with someone else, meet with them in person or by phone to discuss and review the scenario. Verify that she has a TV and DVD player available. Refer to the checklist called the Presenter To-Do List with Hostess*. (If you are conducting the meeting alone, then you will serve as the presenter and the hostess.)
First, determine a date and time to hold the meeting. Help your hostess brainstorm her list of potential people to invite using the Hostess Guest List/Memory Jogger*. Take work and family schedules into consideration. You may choose to schedule two separate meetings—daytime and evening.

Once you have established your guest list, get busy on the phone. Consider using 3-way calling to coach your hostess. You may need to do some role-playing beforehand so she is comfortable with the process. We recommend using a phone script* to help keep the call on track.

After you have your guest list established, gather and organize the supplies you will need for the meeting. On the same page as the Presenter To-Do List with Hostess*, is a Checklist for Presenter*. This is a list of everything you may need to bring to the meeting. Touch base with your hostess periodically to see how preparations are progressing and answer any questions. Be sure she gives all her attendees a reminder call the day before the meeting.

healthy potluckThe Gathering

Be at your host home at least 30 minutes before everyone else is scheduled to arrive. Set up a simple display of AIM’s flagship products, datasheets, Living Well™ books, and flyers for upcoming events. Set up and test the DVD player. Welcome guests and have them sign the Sign-in Sheet*. We like to have music playing in the background as guests arrive.

To start the meeting, have the hostess welcome the guests and introduce you (Hostess Script to Introduce Speaker*). This introduction can include a portion of her testimony, or yours, or you can choose to share your testimonies later during the meeting. Our main presenter starts our meetings with prayer, and we thank our hostess for opening her home. During our introduction, we like to explain a little bit about who we are as a collective group. Feel free to read your introduction.

The Presentation

The meat of the meeting should be simple and to-the-point, leaving plenty of time for questions. With the new AIM Product Snapshots DVD, it is easier than ever to succinctly explain how our products improve health.

We like to use the Three Simple Steps to Living Well™ format (eliminate, nourish and replenish). This is a concise and easy way to explain AIM’s philosophy.

1. Eliminate: Explain how eliminating poor lifestyle choices can help improve our health. We don’t have to eliminate every bad habit at once but focus on one thing at a time. Explain how AIM’s Herbal Fiberblend® can help us eliminate toxins and waste. Perhaps share a testimony. Show the Product Snapshot on AIM Herbal Fiberblend®.
2. Nourish: Eating a well-balanced diet is important and helpful to our health. But even if we’re eating perfectly, our bodies just can’t get enough nutrients through diet alone. Show the Product Snapshots of AIM BarleyLife®, AIM BarleyLife® Xtra, AIM Garden Trio®, and AIMega™. Explain how each of these products provides powerful nutrients. Share or show a related testimony.
3. Replenish: Briefly explain that sometimes, due to genetic tendencies, stress, or disease processes, it is necessary to replenish specific nutrients. AIM has a wonderful line of products that target specific health conditions. You can address these during the question and answer time.

The Close

Now open up the meeting for questions. After you feel all questions are answered, pass out clipboards with Order Forms* and pencils. At this time, we serve a healthy snack. We recommend only fresh fruit or a veggie tray, and water to keep a healthy focus. You might do taste tests of the products. You and the hostess can help people calculate their orders and answer any further questions while people are eating.

The ultimate goal for sharing these products is to help others obtain vibrant health while helping people in your “success line” grow their organizations. By using this easy-to-follow system, we believe you and your group can achieve your goals. And with AIM’s new products and tools, you really have no excuses!

The Iron Man just keeps on strumming, plucking along

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Sometimes you can tell a lot by a nickname. “The Iron Man of Bluegrass” fits Jesse McReynolds, a Preferred Member from Gallatin, Tennessee.

What is not so obvious, however, is where he gives credit for his endurance and, thus, the tag his fellow musicians have given him. Jesse is 80 and credits AIM products for his health and vitality. He has been taking them for more than 20 years. “I started with AIM when I met this lady in Florida,” recalls Jesse. “She was in her 50s but she looked like she was in her 30s. I have taken AIM products every day for more than 20 years. Whatever it does, it works.”

It must. Jesse has been a Grand Ole Opry musician since 1964 and plays in a band, The Virginia Boys, that tours the country playing bluegrass music. “I usually work 40 and 50 festivals a year in the United States,” he says. “It should take a toll, but I have held up pretty well so far.” Jesse plays the mandolin and sings tenor. For years Jesse and his brother, Jim, were members of the band. Jim passed away in 2002, but the family connection lives on. Two of Jesse’s grandchildren sing in the band. When Jim passed, a musical duo that had been playing together for a record 55 years came to an end.

While Tennessee is home, the world has proven to be his stage. He has performed all over the U.S., in Europe, and in Africa. He has been nominated for a number of Grammys and has won his share in his 60 years in music. Most recently he was nominated for Instrumental Recording of the Year for his collection of mostly original songs. He is credited for developing cross-picking and the split string styles on the mandolin.

He has even dabbled some in rock ’n roll. Remember the rock group, the Doors? He played the mandolin on one of the group’s more successful albums, called The Soft Parade.

In addition to his beloved mandolin, Jesse plays guitar and the fiddle. He is credited with creating an instrument only the most avid of music buffs would recognize, the mandolobro. It is a combination of the mandolin and the Dobro. A mandolin is a member of the lute family, an instrument that is plucked and strummed. A Dobro is a type of resonator guitar.

Jesse has provided background music for the likes of legendary rocker Chuck Berry and fellow mandolin player and vocalist Bobby Osbourne. One of his contemporaries says to be a successful and sought-after studio musician may be the highest compliment for an artist for it is a sign you really know your stuff.

Berry once said of Jesse and his brother, Jim: “To me, Jim and Jesse’s style is wonderfully unique and readily accessible to any musician who admires originality.” The praise comes from the media as well. Muleskinner News describes Jesse as “the foremost innovator in bluegrass music” with “unsurpassed technical expertise” on the mandolin, adding, “most importantly there is no better mandolin player, and no better gentleman” than Jesse.

Jesse and his wife, Joy, have been married for 13 years. She says Jesse may be an iron man but he also has a heart of gold. For 16 years he has hosted the McReynolds Memorial Benefit Show, normally held each year in February. It began as a way to assist Jesse’s son in covering his medical bills as a result of having multiple sclerosis. The son passed away in 2000 but the show lives on – “to help someone in need,” according to Joy. “We are blessed to be able to continue this for folks who need it.” This year funds raised from the event went to the wife and son of a musician who died from a brain tumor. “Life is so sad sometimes,” says Joy. But the benefit show can aid in lessening the accompanying grief.

Jesse is no passive supporter of AIM BarleyLife®. His website calls attention not only to his belief in the product but he uses a number of testimonies as well. He even categorizes the help it provides.

Asthma: One lady’s son suffered from it since he was a baby. Then one year she received a Christmas gift of the green barley powder. She began giving it to her son. His asthma became “much less severe and shorter in duration.” He is now 20, has been taking it for eight years, and his asthma is under control.

Arthritis: “This product helps my arthritis and seems to improve my feeling of well-being.”

Chemo side effects: “I was diagnosed with leukemia in 2006.” The various chemo treatments and medications caused “many unpleasant side effects.” Then her grandmother told her about BarleyLife. “I was hoping it would do something good for me. Guess what? It did. I consider myself healthy again, and I am back working in my garden.”

Wife Joy: “I have watched my husband, Jesse, take BarleyLife. He even takes it on the road with him. He stays so active and imaginative, always writing songs, playing music, joking around. I am taking it now and I look forward to keeping up with him.”

When Jesse is not on the road, you can find him and his wife at their Pick Inn, a venue near Nashville for weddings, receptions, and any other event deemed appropriate for the resort. The location is also home base for a radio show that reaches listeners within a 150-mile range of Nashville. There is recorded music, live music, and call-ins. One listener describes it “as kind of like an old-fashioned radio show.” Jesse uses the show to plug BarleyLife, stay in touch with his fan club, and talk about the joys of bluegrass music.

If the true mark of someone is the description given by others, then Jesse need not fear the path he has taken, the decisions he has made in his 80 years. “He is an inspiration to everyone,” says his proud wife.

You can do something about arthritis pain

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Arthritis affects more than 46 million Americans, and millions more are at risk for the condition. Are you one of them?

A survey provided by the AARP would suggest that you very well might be. To find out, take a look at the following statements, and see which ones apply.

• You are over the age of 45.
• You are 10 pounds or more overweight.
• You have had a serious knee injury.
• You did, or currently do, spend more than three hours per day doing heavy lifting on a regular basis.

If any one of these conditions applies to you, then chances are good that you are at risk for arthritis.

Such a broad survey might seem overly simplistic, but it makes sense when you consider the broad scope of arthritis’s reach. Arthritis is a blanket term that describes more than 100 specific medical conditions ranging from back pain to fibromyalgia. Generally speaking, arthritis deals with problems of the joints, which include swelling, pain, stiffness, and joint damage. In these terms, it is easy to see just how prevalent arthritis can really be.

Dee Sanders, a Director from San Antonio, developed carpal tunnel syndrome – a form of arthritis that affects the wrists – and was very happy to find relief in the AIM products.

“In 2003 I was working as a computer program analyst and was required to use the computer mouse a lot for spreadsheets. I started suffering with carpal tunnel syndrome. The pain was from the wrist to the elbow, and I was gravely concerned about having to retire early and have surgery on my wrist.

“My upline, Star Sapphire Director Betty Casey, asked me if I had ever tried the glucosamine in AIM Frame Essentials®. It was foreign to me at that time, but I said I would give it a try. I took two capsules morning, noon, and night. I can honestly say that within three weeks the pain subsided. I then went to two capsules daily. I have not had an occurrence of carpal since!”

Glucosamine is the key ingredient in Frame Essentials. It stimulates the growth and repair of cartilage, helping joints to heal and recover faster and more effectively. Frame Essentials also contains methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) and Boswellia serrata. MSM is found in healthy joint fluid. Boswellia extract helps improve blood supply to the joints, which helps reduce joint swelling and pain.

Together, these three ingredients help make Frame Essentials a powerful joint supplement and one that many Members – like Cathy Palacios, a Preferred Member from Pharr, Texas – can’t imagine living without. She was tired of suffering from pain in her hands, elbows, and shoulders.

“A wonderful friend of mine introduced me to AIM products and told me she thought I would really benefit from taking them. I read all about Frame Essentials and decided to take them. In a matter of days I felt relief, and I’ve been on them ever since. I maintain with two capsules a day.

“I’m 65 years young and I do altar service at Mass that requires me to kneel several times on the tile floor, especially when I do the incense in front of the altar. I can honestly say that I never complain about joint pains. ”

It is new, it is improved, it is AIM ReAssure SP

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The loyalty created by AIM products is a big part of what makes The AIM Companies™ so effective as a health supplement leader and as a one-of-a-kind business opportunity. Therefore, when products are reformulated, there can be pause for concern among the loyal users of the former product.ReAssure

Jim HalsteadFortunately, AIM ReAssure® SP, a reformulation of the old ReAssure product, is even more potent, powerful, and appreciated as its forebearer.

Member confidence in ReAssure has given way to a loyal following of ReAssure SP, as more and more AIM Members are discovering the unique power of saw palmetto, done the AIM way. Jim Halstead, a Director from Oakwood, GA, is one of the Members who has made the switch.

“I am taking the ReAssure SP each day,” Jim says. “I believe the new SP is working even better.”

Saw palmetto, the new, key ingredient in the ReAssure SP formula, is one of the most popular prostate supplements on the market. It seems to be in almost all of the top-selling prostate supplements around, yet in very few cases is it as powerful and unique as it is in ReAssure SP. The saw palmetto found in traditional remedies is generally a ground-up powder derived from dried saw palmetto berries. For Reassure SP, AIM uses saw palmetto berry oil extract for use in its capsule formula, ensuring an optimum amount of supplement nutrition that contains select phytosterols needed for prostate health.

Among the good stuff with a saw palmetto formula are fatty acids, and the phytosterols sitosterol and campesterol. Research has shown that the impact of 320 milligrams of saw palmetto (the same amount that is found in ReAssure SP) can improve urinary symptoms as effectively as prescription drugs … without the dangerous side effects.

The results speak for themselves.
“I have noticed that I don’t need to urinate during the early morning hours like I did before,” says Jim.
It’s not just the saw palmetto that’s doing the miracle work, either. AIM’s unique ReAssure formula also includes zinc, lycopene, and pumpkin seed oil for an all-encompassing prostate product. Take a look at what each of these ingredients has to offer:

• Zinc. Studies have found that the amount of zinc in healthy prostate cells is greater than the amount found in cancerous prostate cells. Also, zinc is key to protecting DNA and repairing cell damage from free radicals.

• Pumpkin seed oil. This supplement helps inhibit overproduction of testosterone in the prostate (a leading cause of prostate enlargement). Multiple studies have confirmed that a diet high in pumpkin seed oil can help to improve bladder function, provide stronger urinary flow, and lessen the frequency of nighttime urination.

• Tomato lycopene. This antioxidant may be responsible for slowing the growth of prostate cancer cells and reducing the likelihood of developing prostate cancer.

Added to saw palmetto, these parts make up a whole lot of prostate help. And for Jim and many others like him, they have found a new AIM product, that started as an old AIM favorite, to fall in love with.

“At age 72, I’m still going strong, and I know that AIM products really help in so many ways,” Jim says.

It was a gut feeling

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Gut FeelingHippocrates understood the value of good gut health.

“All diseases begin in the gut.” Hippocrates

These are the words of Hippocrates, an ancient Greek physician often referred to as the “father of medicine.” His work with medical standardization helped shape early medicine, and today he is remembered in the eponymous Hippocratic Oath.

He spoke those words in the 300s B.C.

Gut health plays a major role in the overall health of our bodies, and there is a wide assortment of ailments that can be traced back to a faulty system. Irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease, celiac, and any number of gastrointestinal issues are just a few of the diseases that begin and end in the gut, which is why gut health – as Hippocrates warned – is so important.

AIM’s products can be a valuable part in practicing good gut health. Some of AIM’s most popular products – AIM BarleyLife®, AIM RediBeets®, and AIM Just Carrots®, which make up the AIM Garden Trio® – can do serious good for those in need of intestinal help. By alkalizing the body and helping to detoxify, the whole food formulas of these products make a remarkably effective gut health supplement.

Patricia DowningStar Sapphire Director Patricia Downing of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, had a Member in her downline put AIM products to work when he was having gut trouble. The Member wishes to remain anonymous.

This Member’s story is no different than that of many others who have discovered just how important taking care of one’s gut can be. The Garden Trio has helped many people get back on track to feeling good and living well, but it is far from the only AIMproduct that is designed with the gut in mind. Here are some others:

AIM Para 90®: An antiparasitic and intestinal cleanser that combines 16 cleansing herbs.

AIM FloraFood®: A probiotic formula that provides intestinal flora to maintain digestive and intestinal health and enhance the immune system.

AIM PrepZymes®: A digestive enzyme supplement that aids in digestion and improves utilization of food nutrients.

The wide variety of AIM products for gut health speaks to the importance of keeping the body’s intestines in optimal condition. Hippocrates began spreading the word more than 2,000 years ago, and AIM products are carrying on that message today.

“As a 56-year-old male, God has blessed me with good health. I eat basically organic foods and exercise regularly, participating in events like 100-mile bike races. However, all that began to change about one year ago.

“I’ve been working as a flight attendant for 30 years in the airlines. For no apparent reason, I would have sporadic bouts with a burning sensation in my stomach. After multiple doctor visits and exams, both inside and out, the best diagnosis was a mild case of gastritis. The pain continued, and I was desperate.

“I crossed paths with my old friend, Patricia, who is an AIM distributor. She told me about the Garden Trio. I promptly placed a call to the AIM office in Nampa, Idaho, where I placed my first order. I’m happy to report that the burning in my stomach has stopped 95 to 98 percent of the time, and I lost 3 inches off my waist and have dropped some 7 pounds.

“Today my routine is to take the Garden Trio upon awakening, followed by AIM Herbal Fiberblend®. When I go on my trips, I always take the powders with me. I want to thank Patricia and AIM for making such a profound change in my life”

Based on the label, it could be cat food for dinner tonight

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How does this ingredient list sound?Darryl Hicks

Potatoes, corn, sunflower seed oil, onion powder, salt, and cheddar cheese.

How about this nutrition facts panel?

Twenty-one grams of protein, 30 percent daily value of calcium, 10 percent daily value of iron, vitamin A, vitamin C, and only 160 calories.

If you were tempted by either of these foods, then you might be surprised to find out that they are flavored Lay’s potato chips and a Lunchables snack pack, and not the healthy alternatives you may have expected.

AIM Chairman’s Club Director Darryl Hicks from Apple Valley, Minnesota, has seen his fair share of tricks over the years, and he has made a point of educating his downline and potential Members about the danger of processed foods and food labels and the virtues of whole foods.

“People need to realize that you can find bad products – unhealthy products – that are labeled healthy,” Darryl says. “If companies want to put on the big words that it has fiber and glucosamine but it has 12 grams of sugar, frosting, and sprinkles, I think your knower knows. I think your innards really know whether it’s right or wrong.

“You can find a good label to support a bad eating habit. It takes what you really want to do, and if you really want to shop by the labels, then you’re better off finding out what the whole thing is about and not just picking items based on a first impression.”
Darryl has made a career out of selling this idea of whole food health to everyone who’ll listen … and everyone who’ll participate. Darryl’s pitch can be as straightforward as a friendly chat and as hands-on as a presentation.

One of his most effective visual aids involves the ingredient lists of Cheerios and cat food. Darryl takes two unmarked paper bags and fills them with one of each product. Then he writes down the specific ingredient list of each product on the outside of the bag, has the person read the ingredients list to himself, and lets him pick which one sounds like the best option for dinner. Invariably the cat food is the one selected.

“It tells us in this day and age that we can’t shop by labels alone,” Darryl says. “My experiment is an attention-getter. If you think you’re just going to shop by the labels of today’s foods, then we’re in trouble. My experiment sets the platform to introduce whole food, whole-food concentrates, enzymes, even basic cell metabolism.”

Darryl’s cat food and Cheerios visual serves to point out a very important lesson: there is great danger in the foods we eat, and we are getting little help from the labels.

Nutrition labels have been around since 1994, but people still tend to misinterpret them and ignore them all together. Their set-up is basic enough; each label has three main parts: servings, nutrition information, and ingredients. And there is much to learn about all three.
Servings and nutrition information present similar challenges for understanding what they say. Rarely is a product’s label as simple and straightforward as it seems it should be.

Serving sizes often are listed as fractions of the product’s actual size, split up into amounts that declare attractive nutrition information without belying the product’s overall unhealthy message. For instance, a bag of potato chips will show nutrition information per serving, but there may be four and five servings in each bag. Therefore, a consumer has to do some quick multiplication to find out the real damage done by the whole bag and not just a small portion.

While serving size and nutrition information can be confusing, the real trouble on product labeling is in the ingredients.
As Darryl is able to point out with his experiment, there can be a lot of hidden meaning found in the ingredients list of certain products, even products that consumers typically trust. Companies will go to great lengths to make sure that their products don’t get passed over for something that might read better.

One trick to be aware of is the way that companies hide sugars in the ingredients list. With the goal of moving sugars out of the top three ingredients listed, they split up the sugars and give them different names so that they can be listed further down. For instance, names like sucrose, dextrose, and high fructose corn syrup are commonly found in ingredient lists because they keep sugar from being the first ingredient listed. The nutrition or value doesn’t change, but the information does.

“Label padding” is another popular ingredient label trick that specifically targets those who seek out healthy ingredients, fooling shoppers into thinking there is more of a certain ingredient than there really is. Label padding occurs when companies include desirable ingredients that appear in negligible amounts in their product. Herbs and superfoods are popular additives that make the ingredient list look better but don’t really have any impact on the overall health profile of the product.

Another seedy strategy is hiding harmful ingredients behind complicated and ambiguous wording. Terms like sodium nitrite might not cause a consumer any pause, but sodium nitrite is actually highly carcinogenic and can cause certain cancers. Other ingredients to be wary of include sulfites, MSG, and tartrazine.

One of many ways that AIM is set apart from the competition is in its honest, enviable product labeling. AIM has always sought to be straightforward and transparent in its product packaging, which is why so much care and attention is put into every detail of the products’ nutrition labels. There is no “label padding” and misleading verbiage. AIM’s products have nothing to hide, and the labels reflect that.

Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about most of the other foods that consumers purchase. Excluding the safety of shopping with AIM, health-conscious consumers have their work cut out for them if they want to find the right foods to eat. One strategy, according to Darryl, is in changing the way you navigate the grocery store.

“If you’re shopping on the interior aisles of the supermarket, you’re probably in the bad area,” says Darryl, who also has a website set up at www.healthykitchenstuff.com to help people learn about eating and cooking right. “Just shop on the outskirts, and you’ll be fine. The vegetables, dairy, and meats are all on the outside; that’s where you want to be. On the inside, where everything’s in the box, that’s trouble. Whatever you crave is your worst enemy.”

If the supermarket operated like an AIM product label, shopping would be an honest, efficient breeze.

But since it doesn’t, consumers will have to be a little more careful in their shopping regimens. If they’re not, it could mean cat food for dinner.
Darryl HicksDarryl Hicks

Health Feature – The China Study – Part 2

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‘Reading it may save your life’
China Study (Note: This is the second of a two-part story on the China Study and how its findings relate to health and the AIM products. The first part in the series was published in the March-April Partners Living Well magazine.)

When the China Study was first introduced in 2005, the New York Times profiled it, proclaiming the book as “the Grand Prix of epidemiology.” Whole Foods CEO John Mackey called it “the most important book on health, diet, and nutrition ever written.” Dr. Dean Ornish, an author and personal physician to such famous stars as Oprah Winfrey, said that “reading it may save your life.”

But in the four years since its debut, it has been met with significantly less fanfare and even less of an impact.

The dietary world of today remains largely the same as the one that the China Study warned against. Eating habits have gone unchanged, whole food nutrition still remains a niche movement, and cancer is just as troublesome as it was four years ago.

What is the reason for the relative anonymity in which the China Study has lived? Its nutritional breakthroughs should have been enough to get any person to sit up and notice. The China Study was the first of its kind to provide substantive evidence of the benefits of eating a plant-based diet – benefits that included a lower risk of disease, including cancer.

Dr. T. Colin Campbell, the book’s author, has some theories about why his research has stayed under the radar. One of his assumptions is that there are a handful of influential people who fear the ramifications of the China Study being put into practice. Many businesses stand to lose a lot of money if a conversion to plant-based diets were to actually come to fruition. Fast food chains, food suppliers, and much of the health field would be drastically trimmed if the dependence on current dietary status quo waned.

Another criticism deals with errors in the study’s methods. At face value, the research done in the China Project – a 20-year study covering 880 million people in 2,400 Chinese counties – is not entirely bulletproof. The mortality rates that Campbell and his associates used for comparison were taken from nearly a decade earlier and extrapolated to fit the study’s timetable. The measurement of nutrients that the China Project used was dietary data from a broad table measure rather than the individual foods themselves. This would have neglected the specific nutrient benefits of particular foods that were otherwise grouped into the generic categories of “bad” animal proteins and the “good” plant proteins.China Study

Generalizations, too, are another issue that some have with Campbell’s China Study. Statements like “eating foods that contain any cholesterol above zero milligrams is unhealthy” tend to be looked at with a critical eye when there are so many variables left unaccounted for.

What these criticisms fail to mention, though, is the unique, original voice that the China Study provides that contradicts the current standard of diet and health in Western cultures. Campbell’s research may lack specifics on certain results, but it does not lack for a compelling case to reconsider the way that animal-based proteins are used in contemporary diets.

The sheer volume of disease-related research that the China Project compiled is enough to warrant a serious look. The following is a list of diseases that the China Project claims could be avoided and lessened by using the proper diet.
• Diabetes
• Brain disease
• Breast cancer
• Colon cancer
• Eye disease
• Heart disease
• Kidney stones
• Obesity
• Osteoporosis

A movement toward whole food health is the China Study’s desire, and it is a foundational principle of The AIM Companies™. AIM Members have seen the benefits of whole food nutrition, and these benefits are exactly the types of results that Campbell and the China Study would expect.

AIM Member Jacqueline McDermott, a Director from Fonthill, Ontario, Canada, is one who discovered the health benefits of plant-based nutrients through AIM BarleyLife® and a host of other great AIM products.Jacqueline McDermott

“In July of 2004, four years after a lumpectomy due to breast cancer, I was diagnosed with bone cancer. The cancer had metastasized very rapidly into my bones causing my femur to break. The cancer not only attacked my left leg, but my pelvis, ribs, vertebrae, and skull as well.

“Six heavy doses of chemo were prescribed and completed in December 2004.

“All the while, I continued under the direction of a homeopath who included natural products to help keep my immune system as strong as possible during the treatments. I have always kept a healthy eating lifestyle and often entertained new health products. It wasn’t until four months after my last chemo treatment that a friend introduced me to BarleyLife by giving me some samples.

“I was so touched by his visit that it led me to sign up immediately. This product testified to cleansing and healing, so why wait, when something sounded so good. At that time no matter what I ate and took, I still lacked energy and my body remained very acidic, which is a prime state for cancer to thrive in.

“I also know from past experience that when you begin a new product, whether for cleansing purposes or building your immune system, you have to give the product a fair chance; therefore, I knew that when my samples ran out, my first shipment would have arrived and I could continue taking the BarleyLife without interruption.

“The big question for me was, ‘How much should I take?’ The cancer had already done massive damage, eating away at my leg and my spine.

“This is where AIM Member Muriel McPherson (a Chairman’s Club Director) came into my life, giving me her ‘recipe’ for cancer treatment, which I faithfully began to take. It involved taking the AIM Garden Trio® eight times per day. The Garden Trio is BarleyLife, AIM Just Carrots®, and AIM RediBeets®. It sounded like a lot, and it was. But my body had been intruded by an ugly disease and had left me weakened and in pain. Two weeks into the Garden Trio recipe, not only did I notice a tremendous increase in energy but for the first time ever, my body was no longer acidic. BarleyLife was the only product that worked for me and brought me into the healthy neutral acidity zone. I was thrilled.

“I have been told that I am a walking miracle. My oncologist says that I’m still full of cancer, but it is not active and not eating at the bones. The cancer remains quiet, and that is glorious news for a bone cancer patient.

“I faithfully take a good portion of the Garden Trio each day as well as a number of the other products such as AIM Proancynol® 2000, AIM Cellsparc 360®, AIMega®, and AIM Herbal Fiberblend®, which I have found to be ‘my happy balance’ for maintenance purposes.”

Jacqueline and others like her are prime examples that there is enough evidence in the China Study to at least constitute a reconsideration of current habits. The China Study’s research was unique: rather than blame disease on genetics, it turned the attention to nutrition and nutrition’s role in activating good and bad genes.

It would be a shame if revolutionary ideas like this were forgotten so quickly.

The path to health and wealth is colored green

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Jackson and Juliet Ger are testimony to AIM’s message of health and wealth.

Juliet remembers some 20 years ago when she and husband Jackson began their meteoric rise to Chairman’s Club. To help with some health challenges, they joined AIM in July 1989. Five months later they were Directors. Within that year, they were wearing Star Sapphire, Royal Emerald, and Blue Diamond pins. In October 1991 they were inducted into AIM’s Chairman’s Club, the company’s highest level of financial achievement.

Theirs is a typical AIM story. Jackson particularly was battling some health issues. One son experienced terrible allergies each spring, another son had acne issues. Juliet found herself fatigued from her graveyard shift at the bank. But the shocker for her came when her sister from Virginia visited them in Texas. “I remember Jackson asked her to take care of me and our children if something happened to him. I was stunned by his request and shocked into action.”

Jackson was working long hours in his jewelry business, traveling a lot, consuming a poor diet. The Gers had immigrated to the United States from Taiwan in 1978. Jackson was determined to make a success of his business. He was suffering from ulcers, severe anemia, allergies, bloody stools, muscle cramps, and was not sleeping well. It became Juliet’s mission to research something to help him with his health challenges.

The search took them to Chinese herbalists in California, lots of health reading by Juliet, and to planting and consuming wheat grass. She grew the grass in flower pots on the window sills in their home. “He began to feel better,” recalls Juliet, “although there was no significant improvement in his health. Nothing we did was enough to fight the combination of his stressful schedule and poor diet.”

Juliet was communicating with friends looking for some kind of magic bullet. “One friend, during a visit to California, saw a jar of green powder on her sister’s kitchen table. When she found out it was barley powder, she naturally thought of me and my wheat grass. She brought some jars back to Texas.” Thus began the Ger AIM odyssey.

Juliet and Jackson Ger It only took a month for AIM’s barley to make a difference. Jackson began sleeping better and his skin regained its color. The son with allergies could breathe freely in the spring, Juliet’s energy level was boosted, and the son with the complexion issue witnessed its clearing. In fact, says Juliet, the son with the acne issue – who at first refused to consume a green powder – “began warning us when we were low on jars.”

Now convinced she had found something natural that really worked, Juliet began “introducing AIM to my friends, hoping every one of them could experience their own benefits in health.” The lady who brought the barley to the Gers was Loretta Shu, AIM Blue Diamond Director at the time but today a member of the Chairman’s Club. “Loretta showed me AIM’s marketing literature and encouraged me to develop my own business.”

It was pretty much thanks, but no thanks, says Juliet. “I was very grateful to her, but my husband’s health, my kids, and my bank job were plenty for my plate.”

Then she began to hear back from friends. The barley was helping them, could they obtain more from her. She signed them up as Members so they could receive discount pricing. The first check she received from AIM was for $27. She thought it was a gimmick of some kind; she didn’t cash it. Then the next month came a check for $60. “I called Loretta, who told me she was receiving checks from AIM and it was OK to cash them. I still could not bring myself to deposit the checks. I was so used to receiving checks from a job where you clocked in and clocked out.”

The next month another check arrived from AIM, this time for $400. That was it. Something wasn’t right, so Jackson called AIM to get to the bottom of this. “AIM courteously told us the checks were real,” says Juliet. The next month, a check arrived for $1,600. That really got Jackson’s attention. He began reading the AIM literature on the products and studied the marketing plan.
Then came the clincher, a check for $4,000 from AIM and two tickets to attend AIM’s convention in Hawaii. “I began collecting and relaying testimonials among my friends. I didn’t realize we were developing a business, but apparently that’s what sharing great news with friends can be,” explains Juliet. “We developed our own literature in Chinese, invited friends to our home, and even organized tours across the country to spread the news. After one year, our income from AIM was sufficient to retire both of us from our jobs and commit fully to AIM. We became the first Chinese Chairman’s Club Directors.”

Fast forward some 20 years to the present. Jackson went into the financial services business as well as working the AIM business but is now retired. During his time in financial services, he saw two recessions, but the current one, he says, is beyond what he has seen in the past. This one he describes as a “financial tsunami.”

So it was that during the 2008 holidays, the Gers had a talk. “Throughout all these years our bonus checks always arrived on time. We know that a stable income stream is important to people, especially in these economic times. And that no one can be pardoned from old age and from sickness. We know that the health and wealth benefits of AIM are more important than ever.” Juliet says too many “rely on drugs and surgery to maintain their health and a great many others simply ignore the fact that prevention is the best medicine of all.”

So the Gers are back at it, back working their AIM business like they once did. As they did in the 1990s, they are building their AIM presentations around their belief in the Healthy Cell Concept® – that true health begins at the cellular level which involves proper cell food, cell exercise, cell environment, cell protection, and a healthy mental attitude. They will concentrate their efforts in the Chinese community and with Baby Boomers. They are looking forward to attending the AIM convention this year in Lake Las Vegas, to renewing old acquaintances and making new AIM friends.

Juliet explains: “Out of gratitude, for our own health, for compassion, we again want to journey on that green, hidden path to health and wealth. Although times and circumstances have changed, we know we are not alone in wanting to embark on this journey.”