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ProPeas – the all-green, all-vegetable protein

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Protein keeps us healthy by building up, maintaining, and replacing the tissues that compose our muscles, organs, and immune system. As a necessary part of a proper diet, protein is available from a variety of sources.

Meat is usually the first protein source that comes to mind, but it has an acidifying effect on the body and may contain unhealthy elements, such as excessive amounts of fat or traces of antibiotics. Vegetarians often supplement their protein intake with tofu from soy. Whey protein from cheese is another common supplement. However, both soy and whey are among the eight most common allergens that account for 90 percent of all food allergies. When you consider any of these sources, the protein you ingest can have both a positive and a negative impact on your health.

A healthy source of protein, AIM ProPeas™ is derived from field peas by means of a clean filtration process that uses no chemical solvents. ProPeas powder contains the building blocks of protein—essential amino acids. But with low amounts of acidifying amino acids, ProPeas does not produce the acidifying effect that meat and whey have on the body.

One of the many positive effects of low-fat ProPeas is that it contributes to lean muscle mass. If you are trying to manage your weight, ProPeas takes about four hours to digest, which keeps you feeling full for a long time and reduces food cravings. ProPeas’ slowly digested protein increases your metabolic rate, so you burn more calories.

One serving of ProPeas provides 12 grams of protein, so supplement your diet with as many servings as required. For a tasty snack or meal replacement, mix ProPeas in rice milk with AIM fit ‘n fiber® or AIM FibreBalance®.

I just tried the ProPeas for the first time and love it! I just added milk, and the ProPeas tasted great. One and a half hours later I drank my AIM BarleyLife®, and two hours later, I was still feeling full. Thanks.

- Naomi Diaz, AIM Member, Fruitland, Idaho

AIM PrepZymes® Supplemental Enzymes for Good Health

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Enzymes are proteins that behave like a workforce, making it all happen inside the body down to the cellular level. Thousands of enzymes are present within individual cells and body systems, and each one has a function. Your body requires specific enzymes to digest food, transport nutrients, balance cholesterol and triglycerides, clean out toxins, strengthen your immune system, and so many other functions. In other words, enzymes act as the catalysts for all biochemical reactions in your body, so you need to maintain a strong workforce.

Your body naturally produces enzymes, and they are also present in food. However, cooking food deactivates most of its enzymes. If you eat processed foods, you might not have enough workers to thoroughly digest the bulk of this modern diet. Without enough food enzymes, your body draws on its other enzymes to help with digestion, compromising other body systems, such as your immune system. When food is not properly digested, it can lead to a buildup of waste that remains in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, where toxins are released and can have a negative impact on your overall health.

 Additionally, your enzymatic workforce is downsized as you age. With fewer enzymes being produced by your body, food digestion can take a longer time, and as a result, you may not get all of the available nutrients. For digestion and the multitude of other bodily functions that require enzymes, AIM Prepzymes® can supplement the enzymes in your body and food to help maintain this vital workforce.

Digestive Enzymes

Your digestive system begins in your mouth. When you’re hungry and you think about something you’d like to eat, you begin salivating. That’s the enzymes in your saliva preparing to go to work even before you start chewing some food. After you swallow and the food enters the gastric acid in your stomach, digestion continues through more enzymatic activity. But that’s not where it stops. In fact, a vital result of digestion takes place in your small intestine, where, with the help of digestive enzymes released by the pancreas, nutrients are extracted and enter the bloodstream.

PrepZymes provides digestive enzymes that are active in both acidic (stomach) and alkaline (intestine) environments. This means they make it to your stomach to aid digestion, as well as into the intestine, where they help the body absorb vital nutrients from digested food.

 The Breakdown

Food consists of a variety of elements, including protein, sugar, carbohydrates, fat, and fiber. The variety of cultured enzymes inPrepZymes helps to break down these elements so that your food is thoroughly digested, its nutrients are available for use by your body, an waste is eliminated.

The PrepZymes formula also includes alpine wild garlic leaf, which aids in digestion and provides antioxidant properties for repairing metabolic damage, and papaya fruit powder, which helps to digest protein andsoothe your stomach. When you are properly digesting food, you are contributing to the overall health of your body. Let PrepZymes make a healthy contribution.

 

 

 

The Get-in-Shape New Year’s Resolution

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It’s that time of year again. The holiday season is over but the days of feasting have had an impact on your waistline. Or maybe you never acted upon your good intentions from a year ago to exercise more and get into better shape, so the expansion around your middle has inched even further. There is no time to waist. Make it a truly New Year by following through with a healthy resolution
to get in shape through exercise and diet.

Manage Your Weight and Build Lean Muscle

AIM Members have a choice between the  Weight Management Pack (AIM ProPeas™, AIM fit ‘n fiber®, AIM CellStar™ 4-pk [mix-n-match] superjuices) or the  SLIM Pack (AIM ProPeas™, AIM FibreBalance®, AIM CellStar™ [2-pk combo] superjuices). Both Starter Packs offer the nutritional tools to help you achieve your weight-management and lean-muscle goals.

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It’s all about Nutrition!

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Good nutrition is one of the primary ways to maintain good health. Your body thrives on whole food that includes protein, essential fatty acids, and lots of vegetables, which provide a wide variety of essential nutrients. You actually age faster if you regularly eat nutrient-deficient, high-fat, or 

chemically-enhanced food that does not provide the nutrients your body requires. 

Dietary Choices

So much in life involves choices, and more often than not, healthy ones bring about positive results. When it comes to nutrition, selecting what is good for you can be overwhelming, so keep it simple from the start by focusing on whole food.

For example, when you are shopping in a supermarket, make most of your selections from the fresh-food sections, which are usually found on the perimeter of the store. Generally, the inner aisles are lined with the convenience of packaged food. Ignore most of what they have to offer because processed food equals poor nutrition. Fresh, whole food equals good nutrition.

Supplemental Choices

Even if you have a healthy diet, you may not be getting enough nutrients from food alone. Or you may simply want more of the good stuff as opposed to the bad because if you consider all of the diseases that may be related to poor nutrition, it is a great idea to practice prevention by supplementing. And thanks to AIM, you have “good-stuff” choices of whole-food concentrates that are not only simple to include in your daily diet, they provide a rich source of nutrients
that help your body to thrive.

The “Perennial” Garden Trio

The AIM Garden Trio® is three whole-food concentrates that provide a year-long harvest of natural nutrition from the juice powder of young barley plants, carrots, and beets.   
            

When it comes to adding more greens to your diet, one of the healthiest choices you will ever make is to indulge daily with AIM BarleyLife® in a drink (or

capsules). At the forefront of Nutrition That Works, young barley plants provide exceptional nutrition in the form of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, antioxidants, phyto-
chemicals, and chlorophyll. Along with being a natural anti-inflammatory, BarleyLife helps your body to maintain a healthy pH balance—one of the best defenses against disease.

Derived from two of the most nutritionally-packed vegetables in the garden, AIM Just Carrots® and AIM RediBeets® provide the nutrient-ladened juice powders of carrots and beets, and you
do not have to do the juicing.

Just Carrots is an excellent source of nutrients, such as beta-carotene, an antioxidant that gives carrots their orange color. Most importantly, beta-carotene converts to vitamin A, which is vital for the health of your eyes, immune system, skin, and mucous membranes.

Even if you have a healthy diet, you may not be getting enough nutrients from food alone. Or you may simply want more of the good stuff as opposed to the bad because if you consider all of the diseases that may be related to poor nutrition, it is a great idea to practice prevention by supplementing. And thanks to AIM, you have “good-stuff” choices of whole-food concentrates that are not only simple to include in your daily diet, they provide a rich source of nutrients
that help your body to thrive.

 

The “Perennial” Garden Trio

The AIM Garden Trio® is three whole-food concentrates that provide a year-long harvest of natural nutrition from the juice powder of young barley plants, carrots, and beets.    
            

When it comes to adding more greens to your diet, one of the healthiest choices you will ever make is to indulge daily with AIM BarleyLife® in a drink (or 

capsules). At the forefront of Nutrition That Works, young barley plants provide exceptional nutrition in the form of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, antioxidants, phyto-
chemicals, and chlorophyll. Along with being a natural anti-inflammatory, BarleyLife helps your body to maintain a healthy pH balance—one of the best defenses against disease.

Derived from two of the most nutritionally-packed vegetables in the garden, AIM Just Carrots® and AIM RediBeets® provide the nutrient-ladened juice powders of carrots and beets, and you
do not have to do the juicing.

Just Carrots is an excellent source of nutrients, such as beta-carotene, an antioxidant that gives carrots their orange color. Most importantly, beta-carotene converts to vitamin A, which is vital for the health of your eyes, immune system, skin, and mucous membranes. 

Rich in antioxidants, RediBeets provides a dietary source of betaine, an antioxidant associated with proper liver function, cellular reproduction, and homocysteine reduction (a positive factor for heart health). According to The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the growing body of evidence indicates that betaine is an important nutrient for the prevention of chronic diseases.

Amazing LeafGreens

AIM LeafGreens™ is an unprecedented green supplement—a leaf-juice blend of spinach, faba bean, field pea, and barley along with broccoli sprouts. Available in both powder and capsules, it offers unparalleled nourishment that delivers nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, lutein, quercetin, kaempferol, and sulforaphane. Additionally, LeafGreens provides antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and alkalinizing properties for whole-body health.

Practical ProPeas

Made from low-allergen and gluten-free field peas, AIM ProPeas™ offers you the choice of vegetable protein, which helps to promote a healthy body pH. If you rely on meat for protein, it is wise to balance your intake with ProPeas. It also makes an ideal supplemental protein for those on a vegetarian diet.

Essential for healthy body tissue, protein is the primary element that your body needs to build and maintain your muscles, organs, and immune system. And making ProPeas a part of your weight-management program helps by reducing your appetite, maintaining lean muscle, and burning calories.

As a nutrient provider for over twenty-nine years, AIM offers whole-food concentrates that support good nutrition. Keep AIM at the top of your how-to-stay-healthy list.

Seniors’ Month: Build a NEW Body

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Aging is unavoidable.
How fast people age varies from individual to individual. But there are cellular-changing steps you can take to reverse some of the effects of aging and slow the process down. In fact, you can actually

create an entirely new body within a year depending on how active you are, what you eat, and which supplements you take. You may now be thinking … What a load of nonsense! But read
on. Science, not nonsense, is behind this re-creation of your new, younger self.

Rebuilding Cell by Cell

 

Dr. Henry S. Lodge, associate clinical professor of medicine at Columbia University, gerontologist, and co-author of Younger Next Year, states that your body is made up of trillions of cells that have various lifespans ranging from hours to three months. It’s a fact that your cells replicate all the time. They do their vital roles for your body and eventually decelerate—die. But this also means that new cells are always being born.
Specializing in the study of aging, Dr. Lodge acknowledges that these new cells will be strong or weak depending on how you live your life. And this

also means that you can alter what some believe to be inevitable genetic factors.

Suppose you have had a lifetime of suspicious eating habits, infrequent (or non-existent) exercise, and factors (your or life’s choice) that have negatively impacted your health. The cells that replicate as you get older are cells with built-in damage from poor nutrition, inactivity, and stress—aging factors.
Now imagine that you take a long, hard look at how you have lived your life externally and internally—cell-wise—and decide, for at least one year, you are going to EEP:

•           Exercise regularly

•           Eliminate life’s negative factors, such as stress, wherever possible

•           Put only healthy food and beverages and nutrient-rich AIM products into your mouth

By doing so, you allow your body to replicate new and improved cells so that by the end of the year,

you have created an entirely new body that will serve you well for a healthy lifetime.

Start with the Daily Essentials:

Greens, Essential Fatty Acids, and Fiber

 

AIM BarleyLife® and AIM LeafGreens™

 

Feeding your cells the abundant nutrients—including vitamins and minerals—in either BarleyLife or LeafGreens contributes to healthy cells for building the new you, a healthy body for combating inflammation, and a strong immune system and a slightly alkaline body pH for defending against disease. Both of AIM’s greens provide the required trace minerals and enzymes for optimal health. And with the presence of chlorophyll, BarleyLife and LeafGreens provide nature’s perfect cleanser and healer for your cells.

AIMega®

 

create an entirely new body within a year depending on how active you are, what you eat, and which supplements you take. You may now be thinking … What a load of nonsense! But read
on. Science, not nonsense, is behind this re-creation of your new, younger self.

 

Rebuilding Cell by Cell

Dr. Henry S. Lodge, associate clinical professor of medicine at Columbia University, gerontologist, and co-author of Younger Next Year, states that your body is made up of trillions of cells that have various lifespans ranging from hours to three months. It’s a fact that your cells replicate all the time. They do their vital roles for your body and eventually decelerate—die. But this also means that new cells are always being born.


Specializing in the study of aging, Dr. Lodge acknowledges that these new cells will be strong or weak depending on how you live your life. And this 

also means that you can alter what some believe to be inevitable genetic factors.

Suppose you have had a lifetime of suspicious eating habits, infrequent (or non-existent) exercise, and factors (your or life’s choice) that have negatively impacted your health. The cells that replicate as you get older are cells with built-in damage from poor nutrition, inactivity, and stress—aging factors.

Now imagine that you take a long, hard look at how you have lived your life externally and internally—cell-wise—and decide, for at least one year, you are going to EEP:

•           Exercise regularly

•           Eliminate life’s negative factors, such as stress, wherever possible

•           Put only healthy food and beverages and nutrient-rich AIM products into your mouth

By doing so, you allow your body to replicate new and improved cells so that by the end of the year, 

you have created an entirely new body that will serve you well for a healthy lifetime.

Start with the Daily Essentials:

Greens, Essential Fatty Acids, and Fiber

 

AIM BarleyLife® and AIM LeafGreens™

Feeding your cells the abundant nutrients—including vitamins and minerals—in either BarleyLife or LeafGreens contributes to healthy cells for building the new you, a healthy body for combating inflammation, and a strong immune system and a slightly alkaline body pH for defending against disease. Both of AIM’s greens provide the required trace minerals and enzymes for optimal health. And with the presence of chlorophyll, BarleyLife and LeafGreens provide nature’s perfect cleanser and healer for your cells.  

AIMega®

 

Build your new body by making AIMega® a daily part of your diet. Your body has a nutritional need for
omega-3 and -6 essential fatty acids (EFAs) because it cannot synthesize these vital nutrients. The numerous benefits of EFAs include inflammation reduction, hormonal balance, and cardiovascular support. The reason for their wealth of benefits is that EFAs are crucial for the growth, function, and maintenance of every one of your cells—where the building begins.

 

If you imagine that your cells are microscopic versions of you, then healthy cells require EFAs on a daily basis if only to ensure that their membranes are in a perfect state of flexibility and permeability to allow nutrients to enter and waste to exit—just as your body requires nutrients in and waste
out to function optimally.

AIM Herbal Fiberblend®, AIM FibreBalance®, and AIM fit ’n fiber®

Fiber is an essential part of building your new body and keeping it healthy. Seventy percent of your immune system is in the colon, so a healthy digestive system is one of the greatest contributors to disease prevention for the new you. Supplementing daily with Herbal Fiberblend, FibreBalance (CAN), or fit ’n fiber (US) helps to cleanse your digestive tract, reduce your cholesterol, and balance your blood sugar levels—only a few of the many benefits of a high-fiber intake. Use one, both, or alternate these AIM products to supplement your fiber intake—a dietary essential at any age.

 

Continue to Build with…

AIM Proancynol® 2000

Proancynol 2000 contains seven active ingredients that provide a wide variety of antioxidants that work synergistically on various parts of your body. As a 

researcher for the NIH’s National Institute on Aging for nearly twenty years, Dr. Richard Cutler stated that the amount of antioxidants in your body is directly proportional to how long you will live. And since free radical damage can result in more than eighty age-related diseases, the number of antioxidants you take daily can affect how well you will live your lifetime. Antioxidant support for maintaining healthy cells does not get any better than taking Proancynol 2000.

AIM CellSparc 360®

At the center of living cells is the spark of energy provided by coenzyme Q10—an antioxidant produced by your body in reduced amounts as you age, making supplementation a necessity. If you are giving your body as much CoQ10 as you were producing in your twenties, then you are replicating energy-rich cells that, in particular, support a strong, healthy heart. 

AIM ProPeas™

Like essential fatty acids, protein is a vital ingredient for building healthy cell membranes.  Made from building blocks called amino acids, protein is also the most important nutrient for building and maintaining strong muscles. As a result of smaller appetites, those in their senior years tend to eat and digest less protein than is necessary to support muscle size and strength. ProPeas provides a convenient and healthy way to counteract this deficiency with a slowly digested vegetable protein made from field peas that can
be consumed in a delicious drink.

 

Within one year, you can build a new body cell by cell. So for the rest of your years, continue to EEP, and let AIM be a part of the new you!

“With potential emergency situations, such as hurricanes, freezing weather, or radiation in the atmosphere, I consider the AIM Daily Essentials “must have” products to keep well-stocked in my home. When food and water sources are 

compromised, BarleyLife is balanced nutrition, the fiber and herbs in Herbal Fiberblend provide for intestinal health, and AIMega offers a balanced blend of essential fatty acids.  All three boost the immune system and protect and heal the body. With the Daily Essentials, I know I am nutritionally prepared
to handle an emergency.”

 

Martha Price, AIM Director

The Woodlands, Texas

 

We are both in our sixties, but most people can’t believe how healthy we look. I exercise every morning for at least thirty minutes. Since we live on a farm, Ron is physically active every day. We grow most of our own food and raise antibiotic-free goats and drug-free chickens. I mostly cook from scratch. To supplement our healthy diet, we have been using AIM products, such as AIMega, BarleyLife, Herbal Fiberblend, CellSparc 360, and Proancynol 2000, for seventeen years.

Ron and Mary Weber, Star Sapphire Directors

Palmerston, Ontario

 

Testimonials should not be construed as representing results everybody can achieve.

The Get-in-Shape New Year’s Resolution

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 It’s that time of year again. The holiday season is over but the days of feasting have had an impact on your waistline. Or maybe you never acted upon your good intentions from a year ago to exercise more and get into better shape, so the expansion around your middle has inched even further. There is no time to waist. Make it a truly New Year by following through with a healthy resolution
to get in shape through exercise and diet.

 

Manage Your Weight and Build Lean Muscle

AIM Members have a choice between the  Weight Management Pack (AIM ProPeas™, AIM fit ‘n fiber®, AIM CellStar™ 4-pk [mix-n-match] superjuices) or the  SLIM Pack (AIM ProPeas™, AIM FibreBalance®, AIM CellStar™ [2-pk combo] superjuices). Both Starter Packs offer the nutritional tools to help you achieve your weight-management and lean-muscle goals.

Protein

Protein is an essential nutrient that keeps you healthy by building, maintaining, and replacing the tissue structure of your muscles, organs, and immune system. Digesting protein puts your metabolism in high gear, which helps to burn more fat.

Protein is made from amino acids, but your body can produce only half of the amino acids necessary to sustain your health. The rest must come from food, but the most common source—meat—has an acidic effect on your body pH. The green protein in ProPeas comes from field peas and helps to balance the body’s natural pH. One serving provides 12 grams of protein.

Fiber

Along with ProPeas protein, fiber gives you the I’m full feeling, which tells your body that you have had enough to eat. One suggested serving of fit ‘n fiber or FibreBalance provides 12 grams of fiber, which greatly contributes to the recommended daily fiber intake of at least 26–35 grams.

Antioxidants

With only half the sugar of regular juices, CellStar superjuices help with your get-in-shape resolution by boosting your body with a host of antioxidant-rich superfruits, such as mango, mangosteen and pomegranate.

For a snack or meal replacement that is low-calorie, low-sugar, and low-fat, combine ProPeas, fit ‘n fiber or FibreBalance, and CellStar in a great-tasting drink. Get a healthy start to the New
Year with Starter Packs designed to help you get in shape!

Wise Weight-Watching Tips

Looking for a way to make your weight loss goals stick this year? Try tackling your diet with one of the following tips. And remember, fiber can make a huge difference.

Count your calories

They say that knowing is half the battle, and it is no different with the battle of the bulge. Caloric intake is a valuable measure for waistline-conscious dieters, so keeping track of what you eat and what you need is very important.

Begin by finding out how many calories you need each day by figuring your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR).

To lose weight, ensure that your daily calorie intake is less than your calculated BMR.

Next, keep track of the calories you eat each day using a free calorie counter tool available online like dailyplate.com or my-calorie-counter.com. AIM biologist Phillip Jermann used sparkpeople.com when he lost 75 pounds last year (see USA Nov-Dec 2010 Living Well magazine).

Exercise is essential

Eating healthier is a great jumping off point for your weight loss goals. But truth is, losing weight won’t happen if your lifestyle remains sedentary.

Thirty minutes of physical activity per day will increase the calories burned to improve weight loss. So you may need to find a way to work more exercise into your daily routine. Be creative with your exercise. Take the stairs at work. Walk to the grocery store. Play with the kids. Increased physical activity does not mean a gym membership.

Keep accountable

Surround yourself with people you trust and let them know of your weight loss goals. Having a friend or group to stay accountable to should help you when temptation sets in. It’s always good to have someone rooting for you.

Take your time

Your stomach needs time to tell your mind that you’re full. Slow down at the dinner table, and you can speed up your weight loss.
Practice portion control

Not only should you be eating healthy in order to lose weight, you should probably be eating less, too. Eating the same volume of food is not likely to make much of a difference for you on the scale. Try filling up on satisfying foods packed with fiber, like an AIM fit ‘n fiber® or AIM FibreBalance®
smoothie.

ProPeas helped to balance my sugars

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Several protein supple­ments are often associated with bulking up, not trimming down. That’s not the case for AIM ProPeas®. Pea protein and amino acids team up to tackle weight gain in three distinct ways: increasing your feeling of fullness, boosting your metabolic rate, and maintaining the body’s lean muscle mass. These three factors are a healthy, safe way to achieve the weight you want.

I have low blood sugar and I have a protein drink every morning. I’ve been hypoglycemic since 1970. Sugar is my enemy. I have tried many protein drinks in the past but none have kept my sugar as balanced as ProPeas. I have been trying to become 100 percent vegetarian, and with my past protein products, that was impossible because my sugar would get so unbalanced and I would have to eat meat protein to get it in check again.

Since I have been on the ProPeas, my sugar stays level, and I am eating almost no meat products and have never felt better. Please don’t change the product!

— Preferred Member
Sandy Dingler, Ocala, Florida

This testimonial should not be construed as representing results everybody can achieve.