Monthly Archives: January 2012

Concentrated nutrition of Just Carrots

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The name says it all: AIM Just Carrots® supplements your diet with the concentrated juice powder of carrots—and for a good reason. Carrots are a rich source of beta-carotene, a carotenoid antioxidant necessary for the production of vitamin A. And there are even more antioxidants in carrots, including alphacarotene and lutein.

Antioxidants boost your immune system by protecting against free radicals, which create systemic inflammation—a major cause of disease and accelerated aging. With Just Carrots, you get the wealth of protective antioxidants and other phytonutrients found in raw carrots without having to juice them yourself. AIM uses a juicing process that removes the natural fiber in carrots, leaving easily absorbed nutrients. By mixing the fiber-less juice powder in water, you have concentrated carrots in a glass—nutrition for your overall health, and, in particular, nutrients that are essential for your eyes and skin.

For over eighteen months I had a yeast infection in my ears, which required trips to the ENT every six weeks for debridment and acid drops every morning and night. I had acquired the infection through hair dye, and the doctor said I would have it the rest of my life. I was miserable. I had been taking BarleyLife since 1995, and since I’d always heard juicing carrots was good, I started the recommended 1 tablespoon of Just Carrots daily. Within 5 weeks, my yeast infection was completely gone! At my follow-up visit to the doctor, he looked into my ears and asked, “What did you do?” Once I told him, he stated, “It’s the beta-carotene. I’ve seen this happen before in people who juice.” That left no doubt in my mind from that day on. I will take JustCarrots the rest of my life!

- Bettiann Lloyd, AIM Preferred Member, Austin, Texas

I have used Just Carrots daily for about fifteen years. On a recent visit to an ophthalmologist, he commented that I had the best retinas he had ever seen. I asked, “You mean for a fiftys-ix-year-old?” He said. “No, they are the best I’ve ever seen.” My husband’s jaw dropped, and I tried not to
look too smug. But I sure felt smug!

- Cass Brown Capel, AIM Director and PhD, Auburn, California

All-natural weight loss and maintenance with protein and fiber

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Testimony shared by AIM Biologist Phillip Jermann:

When you lose eighty pounds, life really does start anew. Now one year later, it’s amazing to look back on photos of myself and see a completely different person. By continuing my healthy eating habits and AIM product regimen, I’ve maintained my weight in the long term. Any time I question whether I could skip a serving of AIM products or revert back to old habits, I think of these photos and how much better my life is now. At that point, the decision is easy.

Many of you may remember that I lost 80 pounds while taking AIM ProPeas™ and AIM fit ’n fiber® last year. Over the last year many of you have asked me how I lost the weight. The simple answer is I took the products, tracked what I ate, and exercised. I hope that the AIM weight loss plan on page 14 will help you in your weight loss goals as it did for me.

ProPeas satisfied my hunger so when I found research that justified my results, I couldn’t wait to share it with everyone.

Research presented in The Protein Book by Lyle McDonald has shown that pea protein is slowly digested, which allows us to naturally Weight Management feel full. Each serving of ProPeas contains 12 grams of protein but it is only digested at about 3 grams per hour. That means it takes four hours to digest one serving of ProPeas. This is why ProPeas keeps us full between meals.

This is significantly different from whey protein at 9 grams per hour and soy protein at 4 grams per hour. This quick digestion results in a fast emptying of the stomach and hunger pains prior to your next meal.

Pea protein also increases our metabolism. For every calorie of ProPeas protein that we consume, we burn 25 percent of it during digestion. When we consume slowly digested pea protein, our body exerts even more energy than when soy or whey is digested. This increase in energy expenditure to break down pea protein results in an increase of our metabolism.

I encourage everyone who would like to lose or maintain weight to start incorporating ProPeas and fit ’n fiber into your diet. Use the AIM weight loss plan found on page 14 to keep the weight off the healthy way, the AIM way!

View the AIM Weight Loss Meal Plan below.

Protect your health from winter illness

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It’s a refrigerator out there! The balmy days of summer are a distant memory
as you step outside your door and face a cold blast of wintry air that chills you to the bone. Before you step out into the cold, there are three other steps you should take to recover from the onslaught of attacks on your immune system. It all begins with the 3 Daily Essentials from AIM.

3 Daily Essentials

Think GEF — Greens, Essential fatty acids, and Fiber — as the three daily essentials that your body requires to stay healthy. AIM provides all three in the economically-priced Daily Essentials packs.

Greens from AIM BarleyLife® or AIM BarleyLife® Xtra provide a wealth of vital nutrients from the juice powder of young barley plants—a whole-food concentrate to supplement a diet that should include lots of vegetables.

Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) from the organic seed oils in AIMega® provide a balanced source of omega-3 and -6 that your body must get from a dietary source. Your cells require a daily supply of EFAs to keep them healthy and to ensure that your body is functioning optimally from the inside out.

Fiber from AIM Herbal Fiberblend® or AIM FibreBalance® (CAN) provides an essential component of a healthy diet that reduces your risk of numerous health problems. AIM’s fiber products go beyond supplemental fiber with a carefully selected group of herbs that cleanse, detoxify, and contribute to regularity.

Rest

The rest you get from relaxing and sleeping is essential for staying well. If you are battling a cold or the flu, getting enough rest gives your immune system a helping hand in getting you back on your feet to healthily brave the cold.

Research on sleep, which largely remains a mystery of the human condition, shows that while you are sleeping, your body goes into improvement mode: repairing and regenerating tissue, building muscle and bone, and strengthening your immune system.

Repair

Your body finds the material it requires to repair itself in the nutrients that you supply on a daily basis. This is why it is vital to repair your body with only the finest building materials. AIM products such as The Daily Essentials are just that.

When you supplement your diet with nutrient-rich greens, essential fatty acids, and cleansing fiber, you give your body the material it needs to repair damage from inflammation, oxidative stress, and immune dysfunction, all three of which tend to increase during the winter months.

Restore

Whether you are recovering from an illness or a hard day, your body can restore itself to a healthy state. You can be a positive part of the restoration by taking additional AIM products to rest, repair, and restore.

The herbal formula of AIM Composure® provides a natural answer for relieving stress and putting your mind at ease for a good night’s sleep.

AIM Proancynol® 2000 is the ultimate antioxidant formula for preventing and repairing the damage caused by free radicals. The probiotic formula of AIM FloraFood® restores the balance of healthy bacteria in your intestinal tract—70 percent of your immune system is in the colon.

AIM can help you make it through the winters of life step by step. And remember, you do not have to be sick. Prevention is the key to staying well, so rest, repair, and restore.

If I begin to experience any cold symptoms, I increase my 2 teaspoons of BarleyLife twice a day to 1 tablespoon 4 times a day. Within 24 to 48 hours, I’m feeling tip top again. I have also been taking Herbal Fiberblend for years and feel I could not live without it. After talking to Rose Bird (AIM Canada General Manager) at a local meeting, I increased my dosage of AIMega, which I knew was good in so many ways for you. Now my hair is so soft and shiny that I rarely use any conditioner.

Most important, my husband Kevin was able to reduce his prostate-specific antigen (PSA) number from 7 to 3 after taking the Daily Essentials for one month. His specialist had said that diet would not make a difference and wanted to do a biopsy because a number over 4 might indicate prostate cancer.

AIM works in many ways!

- Karen Semrow, AIM Preferred Member, Port Huron, Michigan

Weight loss story: “I lost 50 pounds using AIM products!”

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Testimony shared by Julie Dunaway, AIM Preferred Member, Meridian, Idaho:

I was born in the early sixties and can tell you that by the seventies,
my life was full. Full of the wrong things, I might add, such as bad habits and food addictions.

After graduating from high school and working various jobs, I did a tour in the military. Then I graduated college, where I studied art, business, medicine, and horticulture. At that time I realized I had to do some serious changing.

Lifestyle Changes

I quit smoking and drinking, and I began to study the Bible more and went to church. It wasn’t until I got married and started to raise my family that my destiny was sure to change for the better.

After reading about self-help and nutrition, I revamped my eating habits. I had to re-think food and how it affects the body. My husband and I decided to use 100 percent whole wheat instead of enriched white flour, eat fresh fruit
and vegetables, and steam and broil instead of fry. We don’t use unhealthy fats and margarine—no processed meat either. We choose low-fat, low-salt, and low-sugar foods as well as 2 percent milk and low-fat yogurt and cottage cheese. Instead of sugar, we use stevia. And we drink pure water—no soft drinks.

AIM Products

I lost fifty pounds using AIM products! At first my weight fluctuated like a yo-yo as I experimented and found out what worked for me.

Every six months I do a four-week cleanse using AIM Para 90® and AIM Herbal
Release® and finish it with AIM FloraFood®. Every day, I take two scoops of AIM fit ‘n fiber™, one tablespoon AIM BarleyLife® Xtra, and 1 tablespoon AIM Herbal Fiberblend®. This great-tasting meal replacement helps me with mid-afternoon food cravings. I also take antioxidant-rich AIM Proancynol® 2000.
AIM GlucoChrom™ saved me from becoming a diabetic. By taking one capsule every morning and evening, my blood sugar levels dropped dramatically,
as did the extra weight around my middle.

By the way, my exercise routine is a simple one. I park at the far end of parking lots when I shop, and I enjoy housework and gardening.

It’s not all fun and games. I have to push myself to keep up with the grind especially in bad weather.

Try these lifestyle changes and watch yourself change slowly, but surely.

Climbing Australia’s Mt. Warning, reaching new heights with AIM

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Blue Diamond Director Ramiah Selwood and his son Beau from Queensland, Australia, climbed to the top of Mt. Warning on the east coast of Australia last fall. An extinct volcano, Mt. Warning is 3,600 feet tall, and its peak is the first part of the Australian continent to receive sunlight each morning.

Rising at 5:00 a.m. the morning of the climb, Ramiah, age fifty-five, and Beau, thirteen, both supplemented with AIM LeafGreens™, AIM Garden Trio®, AIM GinkgoSense®, CalciAIM™, AIMega®, AIM Peak Endurance™, and AIM ProPeas™. The father and son team then drove two hours south to begin their climb.

The climb to the summit (2,300 feet high and 2.8 miles long) took two hours. The last 1,300 feet were around 70 degrees vertical and were really hard work. Before going for the last leg, Ramiah and Beau had a shot of BarleyLife, Peak Endurance, and ProPeas, which gave them a spurt of energy for the last part of the difficult climb.

The Selwood family supplements daily with AIM products, and they’ve noticed that their children are developing well in their early teenage years, are thinking positive, and don’t seem to fall ill as much as they used to before AIM.

Ramiah and his wife Shakti have both had life-threatening issues over the past decade and have lost parents to cancer, but they have changed their lifestyles and supplemented with AIM to recover and thrive. Ramiah is currently writing a book about their journey.

Through their AIM business, Quantum Knowledge, they achieve 90 percent of their income by networking AIM products. The financial stability from AIM provides a great lifestyle and allows time-out during the school holidays to go on adventures with their children.

“It’s fantastic to be helping people, enjoying our lives and earning an ethical income at the same time,” Ramiah said.

Ramiah and Shakti both endeavor to spend regular one-on-one time with their teenage children (Nirvana and Beau) during these critical years of growth.

“Being older parents,” Shakti said, “gives us wisdom to guide our precious children, but it’s critical that we are fit and healthy to keep up with them.”

Ramiah and Shakti are both looking forward to catching up with their American and Canadian friends on AIM’s 30th anniversary convention cruise Sail-a-bration in 2012.

Green nutrition makes life even better

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Testimony shared by Darlene Vandermey, AIM Director, RNPA, and LWC, Glen Allan, Ontario:

Many years ago I began using AIM’s first green juice product, which, along with some lifestyle changes, helped me to recover from a very bad case of fibromyalgia. The only thing that remained was a little bit of pain and stiffness, but certainly nothing like I had been experiencing before.

When AIM BarleyLife® was introduced, I noticed even less pain and stiffness, so I was very happy doing all the activities that I did before the fibromyalgia, such as biking, walking long distances, and hiking.

In June 2011 at the AIM convention in Seattle, we were introduced to the
NEWtrition BarleyLife, and in my next order that is exactly what I received. I understood the increased nutrition it was going to give me, but I really did not expect that I would feel much different. Two weeks after taking the new BarleyLife, I realized that the remaining pain and stiffness were entirely gone.

This relief continues. In August 2011, my husband Kees and I went camping with some friends from our square dancing group. One day we biked thirty kilometers. The next day we biked fifteen kilometers and hiked for three hours in the Niagara Escarpment. It takes seventy-six steps just to get down into the gorge. By the time we climbed our way over rocks, tree stumps, and up and down hills to the end, we had to climb 206 steps to get out. We still had to bike back to our campsite, so it was a full day of physical exertion. I’m sixty-three years old, yet through all of it, I felt wonderful. It was tiring, but I felt no pain.

I am so excited about this BarleyLife NEWtrition, so I am telling everyone
about it. Thanks, AIM, for continuing to improve your products, which make
the quality of people’s lives even better. Thanks to God for giving us all this nutrition in a simple barley leaf.