Living Well – February 2015

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ON THE COVERThe beautiful DoubleTree Resort by Hilton at Paradise Valley (Scottsdale) will make a great place to reunite with AIM family and meet new AIM Members, June 17-21, 2015.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a new series from esteemed AIM Members. The first message is from Charlotte (and Keith) Thompson, AIM Chairman’s Club Directors from Dundee, Ohio.

I ponder as I look across the rolling hills of our Ohio farm on this cold winter day how different our lives would have been had we not been introduced to AIM. I can hardly imagine! We partnered with AIM on the last day of April 1997. It totally changed our lives! Needless to say, that day would also affect hundreds and thousands of others! “Let me count the ways!” I actually can’t count the ways because they reach so far and are so lasting!

We use the words “Many Blessings” often, but allow me to use it one more time as I reflect on what the AIM partnership has meant to us! It has been just that! Many, Many Blessings through AIM from God!

When we reflect on our depleted health just 18 years ago, our minds don’t want to go there. We could have never dreamed that

What AIM’s Partnership means to uswe would be able to enjoy life to the fullest because our poor digestion caused numerous issues.

Depleted health brought us to the AIM products, but God also had a plan to use our ministry and the AIM business to help others improve their health! While we have worked hard, long days and many hours helping others, AIM has rewarded us greatly!

We find it such a blessing to share the AIM Health Message with those who will listen. Receiving a phone call or a letter asking for help compels us to respond because we care. What a pleasure it has been these last 18 years to help our neighbors, friends and often strangers who soon become our AIM Family!

Our partnership with AIM has introduced and blessed us with a host of friends whom we treasure!

We have shared good times and hard times with these special friends and feel so honored to call them “Our AIM Family.”

In Partnership for Life!Charlotte (and Keith) ThompsonAIM Chairman’s Club Directors

Partners for Life Message

EVERY ISSUE 2 Partners for Life Message/Contents15 News & Meetings

MAIN FEATURES

4 It’s Easy Being Green! 7 In the business of helping people

BUSINESS10 Red Rush Attracts

A Younger Crowd11 The AIM Business Builder

Bonus Opportunity

2015 AIM CONFERENCE 8 Stay Connected in Scottsdale

PEOPlE & PlACES12 Eleventh Annual

Ohio AIM Conference

PRODUCT FEATURE 6 Take It to Heart!13 Frame Essentials: Natural Pain Relief14 Don’t Miss a Beat with Mag-nificence

TESTIMONIAlS 9 Health and Happiness with AIM14 Renewed Life from Renewed Balance

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February 2015

WellLiving

The purpose of AIM Living Well is to communicate vital information to our Members and to build a strong relationship with them through edu-cation, motivation, and recognition. AIM products cannot be sold and ad-vertised as cures and treatments for any disease. Our products are intended to improve the nutritional profile of the in-dividuals who use them. Federal regula-tions in many countries prohibit making any claims that products are used in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, and prevention of disease.AIM Living Well is written in compliance with U.S. requirements, which may not be suitable for marketing AIM products outside of the United States. We ask that you be aware of and respect the require-ments of your country in marketing AIM products.Articles are for information only. Consult a health care practitioner for advice.©2015 AIM International Inc.AIM Members are hereby granted per mission to reproduce any article that appears in Living Well, provided the article is reprinted in its entirety and the reprint bears the following notice: “Reprinted with permission of AIM International Inc., Nampa, Idaho.”Printed in the USA.All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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The mission of The AIM Companies™

is to improve the quality and productivity

of people’s lives by promoting the

Healthy Cell Concept™ and the highest principles

of free enterprise.


Main FeatureMain Feature

On a global scale, the collective behavior of human beings has an enormous effect on the health of our planet. For individuals, lifestyle choices have a great impact on a person’s health, especially in regard to nutrition. Going green with AIM nutrition from the inside out makes perfect sense in our modern world. It’s the healthiest option that a person can choose.

In the world of plants, the color of life is green. It’s a healthy hue due to the chlorophyll that is the lifeblood of our planet’s vegetation. This greenery produces the oxygen in the air that we breathe and provides a nutritious food source that can keep us healthy. AIM makes it easy to go internally green with a healthy variety of whole-food concentrates.

BarleyLife® (powder, capsules & sample packs)

When The AIM Companies™ introduced the juice powder of barley grass to the world in 1982, no one could have predicted the lasting impact of these unparalleled greens on people’s health. Thirty-three years later, AIM Barleylife® continues to provide a balanced source of natural nutrients from

one of the most nutritious grasses on the planet. Most importantly, BarleyLife is a juice concentrate (not dried, ground grass) giving you more green nutrition that is fully absorbable and usable by your body.

The alkalizing and anti-inflammatory effects are only two of the many health benefits of going green with BarleyLife. The abundant supply of vitamins, minerals, chlorophyll, antioxidants, phytonutrients, and enzymes in barley grass makes BarleyLife a bountiful food supple ment. In fact, the number and types of natural nutrients in young barley plants have yet to be fully counted and identified, but you can count on BarleyLife greens to help maintain good health.

BarleyLife® Xtra(powder & sample packs)

Sometimes you want something extra, so one more green option is AIM Barleylife® Xtra. Providing a sweet, fruity taste for children (or adults with a sensitive palate), BarleyLife Xtra packs an additional nutritious punch with the powders of eighteen fruits and vegetables.

It’s Easy Being

The AIM Green Family

ProPeas

(powder)You can even green your protein by

supplementing with AIM ProPeas®, which provides a vegan source from field peas. Protein is an integral macro-nutrient required by all of your cells. This means your body needs large amounts to build and repair tissues and to make enzymes, hormones, and other body chemicals as well as for the building blocks of blood, bones, cartilage, muscles, and skin.

The major source of protein in the North American diet is meat, which has an acidifying effect on your body pH. “An acidic body opens the door to disease” is a message that AIM has repeated over the years and for good reason. AIM greens and pea protein help promote a healthy, alkaline body pH. Add a scoop of ProPeas to almond or rice milk and you have a tasty smoothie that supplements your body’s protein requirements in a healthy way.

Make your inner environment green with help from AIM’s incredible selection of green food options. For simplicity’s sake, add any of your choices to an AIM Blender Bottle filled with your favorite beverage, shake, and drink to your health.

Green!Each 4.5 grams of powder contains a 4-gram serving of BarleyLife.

Best taken on an empty stomach (thirty minutes before a meal or at least two hours after eating), concentrated BarleyLife and BarleyLife Xtra powders are easily digested by your body and absorbed at the cellular level.

LeafGreens(powder and capsules)

In 2008, AIM introduced another unique green product when it combined the juice powder of young barley plants with three other leaf-juice powders—spinach, faba bean, and field pea—to create AIM leafGreens®. Broccoli sprout powder was added to the formulation a few years later. LeafGreens offers an alternate green supplement that provides distinctive phytonutrients, including sulforaphane, kamp ferol, and quercetin.

To make one pound of LeafGreens, forty-four pounds of leaves are required. This makes such a potent source of greens that only one daily serving is necessary. Like BarleyLife, LeafGreens is best taken on an empty stomach.

CoCoa LeafGreens(powder and sample packs)

Not everyone appreciates the taste of greens, so a healthy taste of chocolate was added to create AIM CoCoa leafGreens®. Along with a delectable flavor, three types of cocoa powders provide a wealth of antioxidants and flavonoids to the already nutrient-dense LeafGreens mix. Over 700 healthy compounds are found in cocoa, supporting bone, heart, and cognitive health.

Those who just can’t wrap their minds around the thought of drinking greens will enjoy the taste of CoCoa LeafGreens, especially when added to almond or rice milk.

It’s Easy Being

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Product Feature

Introduced back in 1996, AIM CellSparc 360® provides plant-sourced coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), a natural nutrient that provides antioxidant properties, decreases the risk of blood clots, and sparks cellular energy.

The heart requires an enormous amount of energy to beat over a lifetime, so sufficient amounts of CoQ 10 are vital for staying alive. Although CoQ10 is naturally produced by the body, the aging process reduces levels of this crucial nutrient. Daily supplementation of CellSparc 360 increases CoQ10 levels.

Medical science is often slow in legitimizing the effectiveness of nutrients that AIM has offered for years, and such is the case with CoQ10 for heart health benefits. The conclusion of a 2013 study cited in the European Journal of Heart Failure determined that patients with chronic heart failure should use CoQ10 as a part of their maintenance therapy.

The study’s first author, Svend Aage Mortensen, MD, said, “… These results are guideline changing, making a strong case for CoQ10, a natural substance that’s virtually without side effects, to be considered as part of the maintenance therapy for all patients with chronic heart failure. CoQ10 (also known as ubiquinone) is a vitamin like substance … and generates energy in the form of ATP.” (the website of European Society of Cardiology [27 May 2013])

These days, doctors in the know recommend CoQ10 supplementation to patients taking statin drugs to reduce cholesterol levels. That’s because this medication also reduces the body’s CoQ10 levels.

Of course, AIM’s own research indicated the addition of palm oil tocotrienols, which help reverse blockage of the carotid artery, reducing the risk of arteriosclerosis and stroke. Both

CoQ10 and tocotrienols are fat-soluble, so AIM included pure fish oil in the CellSparc 360 formula to enhance bioavailability and to add

heart-healthy omega-3 essential fatty acids.

Providing another source of omega-3, AIMega® is natural health product that you can also take to heart on a daily basis for overall wellness. Omega-3 essential fatty acids cannot be produced by the body, so dietary intake is vital for good health.

AIMega’s organic seed-oil source is flaxseed, a plant-based omega-3 that WebMD reports to “help the cardio-

vascular system through sev eral different mechanisms, including anti-inflammatory action and normalizing the heartbeat.” Flaxseeds also provide the richest dietary source of lignans. The Linus Pauling Institute specifies that “Diets rich in foods containing plant lignans have been consistently associated with reductions in risk of cardiovascular disease.”

AIM takes your well-being to heart by providing high-quality, natural health products that are effective in keeping you and your heart in good health.

Take It to Heart!

For additional cardiovascular support,

the unique wild, alpine, garlic leaf in

AIM Bear Paw Garlic® helps maintain

healthy blood pressure and cholesterol

levels, supporting overall heart health.

Also read ‘Don’t Miss a Beat with Mag-

nificence’ article on p 14.


Main Feature

In the Business of

Helping People

February 2015 7Testimonials should not be construed as representing results everybody can achieve.

Snake River CrossFit boasts a capable staff of well-trained athletes and fitness experts, but the heart and soul of the gym are its owners, Frank and Michaela Beauvais (AIM Members.) They have been married for thirteen years and have two children. As a Captain and a fitness trainer in the Nampa Fire Department, Frank knew that marriage was often difficult for rescue workers due to long, irregular hours, so he suggested CrossFit as an activity that he and his wife could share. They started in their garage, and that home gym grew into their current business.

Michaela, who shoulders the task of running the gym while Frank spends days at a time stationed at the firehouse, studied Exercise Physiology at Boise State and has years of experience studying and working in the fields of injury rehabilitation, massage therapy, and nutrition to name just a few. CrossFit has allowed her to “pull from all of her studies and work experiences to help people find connection, function, and wholeness as they create stronger versions of themselves.This might mean someone returning to physical activity after just having a baby, regaining their strength after surgery, or finding courage to attend class after years of inactivity. I just feel like the more I can learn, the more people I can help. We have many athletes who have been able to get off of blood pressure and cholesterol-controlling medications because of the changes they have made in their nutrition and physical activity. Many have stopped taking anti-depressants, anti-anxiety prescriptions, and pain medications. We’ve had some people lose substantial amounts of weight. We have

one gentleman who is under 300 pounds for the first time in years and others gain weight along with newfound confidence, wellness, and strength.”

As a firefighter, Frank uses fitness every day. “The population isn’t getting any smaller, and I’m not getting any larger. That means I need to become stronger. I don’t want to face someone’s wife or husband and tell them that I wasn’t strong enough to save their spouse. Firefighters are in the business of helping people.” This is a philosophy that the couple shares in their gym and in their relationship with AIM. “There has never been an element of ‘How can I profit off this?’ and granted there is an underlying monetary piece to everything, but it’s so far down on the list of importance that it doesn’t get in the way of the greater good of making people feel better. That’s why it has been so easy. I have no reservations about the company. It’s an open book to me. They talk about a CrossFit honesty where we don’t miss a rep, where we don’t miscount. We will always do what we think is right. That’s a pretty broad statement, but it rings true. So when people do approach a CrossFit gym, I think knowing that you have a good product that is backed by an American company that is doing good things and employing good people, I think that is where you’ll be able to make in-roads. Letting the products speak for themselves. You can pronounce everything that’s on the label. We work way too hard to put stuff into our bodies that we don’t need. So if we can get a product that is priced right that is made by Americans and if we can get a product that we feel is good, it will be a great relationship. If Red Rush didn’t do what it says, we wouldn’t have it in the gym. It actually makes me happy. “

2015 AIM Conference

With the 2015 Conference rescheduled from September to the month of June, this year’s AIM family gathering is now less than six months away. This event is a not-to-be-missed reunion of AIM Members from far and wide.

More often than not, a change in plans means a price increase, but that’s not the case for Staying Connected in Scottsdale, Arizona. In fact, you save $172.00 on the price of a conference package. The cost dropped from $702 per person to only $530. What a good deal!

If you signed up for the Auto-Pay Program, you’ll make fewer installments because your overall payment is now less.

If you haven’t registered yet, you have until the March 31st deadline to submit your completed registration form available online at www.theaimcompanies.com.

Along with the excitement, fun, and valuable information delivered at AIM conferences, the connections you make can last a lifetime. Don’t miss out. See you in Scottsdale this June!

in Scottsdale

NEW DATESfor theAIM 2015 ConferenceJune 17 – 21, 2015


By Emily liu (Translated by

Dr. Yu-Shiaw Chen)

I hope people can benefit by reading my testimonial. I live in the small, quiet town of Hillsborough, New Jersey. Twenty years ago, my friend introduced me to AIM’s green barley powder,

and I haven’t gone a day without it since. Before becoming an AIM Member, I usually had a sore throat or an infection of some kind. Now, I rarely catch a cold or have a sore throat. Here’s another interesting thing: I don’t have to dye my hair. It is shiny and black, the color of someone twenty years younger. I believe this might be due to my persistent use of AIM Barleylife®.

Another great product is AIM FloraFood®. One day in the summer of 2009, I woke up with several red bumps on my left arm. I thought they were bug bites, so I applied some drugs for swelling. None of them worked. The bumps got bigger and more appeared. I went to see a doctor and was diagnosed with herpes. The illness wasn’t as painful or as uncomfortable as the doctor predicted because I was very health conscious and took AIM products consistently. The doctor even teased me saying, “You don’t look like you have any pain at all.”

I am very grateful for AIM’s FloraFood. I believe it alleviated my suffering and made my recovery from herpes much quicker. A month later, I was able to help a friend who had poison ivy all over her feet and legs. I immediately told her about FloraFood as a solution to her poison ivy problem. I gave her capsules. Two days later, I followed up with her and her feet were much better.

In the New Jersey springtime, many people are aggravated by hay fever and allergies as well as poison

ivy and other plants. I recommend everyone take advantage of BarleyLife and FloraFood for protection against those threats. That way you can enjoy all the flowers in bloom.

Finally, I am grateful for the research done by The AIM Companies™. They have come up with so many superb and beneficial products. In the past decade, so many different health food supplements have appeared in the marketplace, but I have never lost my faith in the AIM products and will never give up the privilege of using them. The AIM Companies has given me unexpected health and happiness.

Note: Emily Liu takes AIM’s Garden Trio® and CalciAIM™ as her morning drink. She also uses AIM Proancynol®

2000, CellSparc 360®, and AIMega®.

Health and Happiness with AIM

Testimonials should not be construed as represent-ing results everybody can achieve.

Delivers an abundance of antioxidants and phytonutrients

Alkalizes for healthy cell function

Enzymatic activity including Superoxide Dismutase (SOD)

Provides healthy bacteria (probiotics)

Repopulates gut flora

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Business

Attracts a Younger CrowdRed

The AIM Companies™ has created a variety of products over the last thirty years but none since Barleylife® have had the marketing potential of Red Rush™. The athletic effects of beet juice are easy to understand, making the product simple to explain.

The science behind beet juice is solid with new benefits being discovered all the time. But the biggest reason we have such faith in Red Rush is that you can feel it working, and you can empirically prove its effects through Berkeley Test Strips, by measuring extremity temperature, or testing your time to exhaustion on a treadmill. When compared to the preventative power of proper nutrition—which allows you to feel normal instead of sick—the benefits of beet juice were more immediate and proactive and therefore more exciting to younger people in perfect health.

It was our goal to attract that group of people by dividing the marketing and making Red Rush a standalone product, allowing us to communicate with a younger, more athletic crowd in their own jargon and by appealing to their interests: CrossFit, obstacle races, weightlifting, and other sports. This was done to raise awareness of the product and its benefits create a demand in those communities

that our Members could meet. It also helped us avoid a confusing marketing mish-mash while trying to appeal to two somewhat disparate demographic populations simultaneously.

The one thing that has remained the same for both groups is our business model. We have been an MLM for over thirty years and plan to continue on as such until time immemorial. Red Rush is key to pulling in that younger and athletic demographic who will appreciate our nutritional, preventative products once they’ve seen the immediate benefits of Red Rush. That way our Business Builders can stroll into a CrossFit gym or cycling shop with a box of Red Rush tucked beneath an arm and meet with a receptive and grateful audience.

At this point in time, we here at The AIM Companies feel that the marketing framework for this product has been erected to such an extent that an ambitious Business Builder could easily find financial success by taking advantage of our standalone Red Rush marketing campaign. We encourage you to prove us right.

Contact referrals made through the Red Rush Facebook page and other social media sites are distributed among Members.

Rush

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Business

“I think that the Business Builder Bonus (BBB) is absolutely incredible,” exclaimed Bella Vladimirsky when asked her opinion of the AIM bonus available to all Members. “It’s a great tool for everybody. And it’s good to have extra money!” Bella earned a $300 bonus in October 2014.

Putting extra cash into the pockets of hardworking Members keen on building their AIM businesses was the whole idea of introducing the BBB back in January 2014. “I like AIM’s good ideas that always help independent distributors,” Bella stated, “AIM gives people the opportunity to build a home-based business and earn a good income.”

At the same time, Bella recognizes that upline have a responsibility to work hard. “Communication is so important because downline need to be in contact with their upline,” she explained. “Your downline can send you new people. You cannot do it all alone; it’s about teamwork.”

Bella stays in touch with her downline and reaches out to others in a variety of different ways: doing nutritional consulting, lecturing, holding seminars, and sending out a monthly newsletter, Smart Herbs. “Herbal medicine is complementary to nutrition,” she

stated. Bella uses her newsletter to introduce herself, providing her contact information and offering to answer any questions the recipients may have. Her credentials are impressive: master’s degrees in biology and chemistry, certified nutritionist, certified iridologist, and naturopathic doctor, so Bella has a lot to offer both established Members and potential new ones.

These days, Bella is motivated by the people who want alternative options for im-proving their health. “Especially the younger generation,” she said, “who see the older generation getting sick.” Some of those youthful seekers may be interested in the opportunity to earn an income with AIM. “I really try to involve this younger age group. It can be very surprising to see who will become a business builder. Some people don’t see the opportunity, so you need to open the eyes and minds of people.”

When she and her husband, Arkady, first came to the United States in 1989, they had left behind their homeland, Moldavia, where having a business was against the law. “AIM was the first company I was introduced to, and I still love it,” Bella stated. “AIM gave me

the opportunity to start my own business. The products are great, the staff is

wonderful, and the educational materials are excellent. And the

BBB has added an opportunity for all Members to earn even more income.”

BONUSBusiness Builder

$$$$$$ $

The Opportunity

Bella and Arkady Vladimirsky, Royal Emerald Directors, McAllen, Texas

People & Places


Eleventh Annual Ohio AIM Conference

November 7-8 Wilmot, Ohio

Hosted by Chairman’s Club Directors,

Keith and Charlotte Thompson

While our honored speakers and guests were arriving on November 6, our local area Directors prepared a carry-in meal for them. Directors Joe and Clara Yoder hosted the special evening meal at their home.

On Friday evening, the excitement grew as did the number of smiling faces lining up for registration. We had about 200 in attendance Friday evening and over 200 for the Saturday sessions.

The Conference was an exciting one with many motivated members re turn ing home to share the AIM Health Message! Many positive com ments were overheard: “This is the best yet!”

Directors traveled many miles to attend the con fer ence. Some traveled from across Ohio as well as from Minnesota, Kansas, Wisconsin, Delaware, New York, Texas, and North Dakota.

Special guests and speakers included Dennis Itami, AIM President, CEO and

Co-Owner and wife Kay from Nampa, ID; Dr. John Shewfelt and wife Marilyn from Barrie, Ontario in Canada; Joan van Rensburg and husband Chris, from Pretoria, South Africa; Gerald Phillips from Pearland, TX; Phillip Jermann, AIM Biologist from Nampa, ID; and Ralph Peterson from Portland, ND.

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Pain is instantly recog-nizable but can be hard to describe and define because it can vary in duration and severity; however, pain does have three major classifications: Nociceptive (injury to a body tissue, usually aching, sharp, or throbbing,) psychogenic (pain caused from a psychological source) and neuropathic (pain often caused by nerve damage). Nociceptive is the most common type and is associated with the classic manifestations of inflammation: pain, heat, swelling, and redness. Arthritis is a form of nociceptive pain but is unique in that it can persist indefinitely.

Arthritis is not a single disease, but a term that includes over 100 unique medical conditions. The US National Library of Medicine says that common indicators of arthritis are pain, stiffness, and difficulty moving about. Osteoarthritis is the most common form of the affliction, affecting nearly 27 million adults in the US, though osteoarthritis is sometimes called non-inflammatory arthritis, (rheu matoid being its opposite) it still causes inflammation due to wear and tear.

Frame Essentials: Natural Pain Relief

AIM Frame Essentials® con-tains three all-natural ingredients

that may help to relieve the inflammation commonly associ ated

with arthritis and other types of nociceptive pain.

Boswellia ExtractThere is growing body of evidence that

boswellia extract has anti-inflammatory properties. A small study published in Phytomedicine found that osteoarthritis sufferers who supplemented

with boswellia extract saw greater improvement in knee mobility and walking distance when compared with those who were taking a placebo. The participants also reported a significant reduction in knee pain. Additionally, two further studies on rheumatoid arthritis patients reported that boswellia relieved their symptoms.

MSM (Methylsulfonylmethane) MSM is thought to deliver much-needed sulfur to the

joints, strengthening their tissues. The MSM Advisory Board has said that “cartilage integrity is a sulfur-dependent state.” Studies have shown that MSM relieves pain associated with osteoarthritis and has also shown promise as an anti-inflammatory compound in lab tests done on animals.

GlucosamineGlucosamine is commonly found in the body, but as

people age, their glucosamine levels drop. This can cause the joints to wear out. There is evidence that glucosamine supplementation may reduce the deterioration of the joints caused by the aging process and may also ease osteoarthritis pain. There are no major food sources of glucosamine, so this makes Frame Essentials especially essential.

In Canada, Frame Essentials was given a natural product number (NPN) by Health Canada and approved for use to relieve osteoarthritic pain and support joint health.

Product Feature

Product Feature

of cardiovascular disease. Another Harvard study found that magnesium may reduce the risk of stroke by 9 percent, and a scientific paper published in Europe reported that magnesium supplementation reduced blood pressure by 4 mmHG points systolic and three points diastolic.

These may seem like surprising facts, but when you really stop to think about it, magnesium is so essential to your existence that it’s more surprising that you’d ever go without. And you don’t have to. The AIM Companies™ offers Mag-nificence™ topical magnesium in spray, crystals or lotion.


Don’t Miss a Beat with Mag-nificenceWithout magnesium your heart could not beat. Magnesium is that essential to human life. What’s even more surprising is that most Americans (68 to 80 percent) are magnesium deficient. You wouldn’t drive your car without the correct amount of oil. You wouldn’t expect dead batteries to power your cell phone. So why do you expect your body to perform properly without the mineral it needs for the most basic of life functions?

A study out of Harvard published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found a link between higher intakes of magnesium and a 22 percent risk reduction of ischemic heart disease and a 30 percent risk reduction

People & Places

Renewed Life from Renewed BalanceI am eighty-one years old, and I have had headaches ever since I was a child. Nothing I could find would stop them. I would get headaches about every four days. Sometimes I would get nauseated due to the pain being so bad. It was frustrating for it interfered with my daily activities. One day I talked to my water aerobics teacher (Debra Pugh, AIM Director) about my problem, and she told me about AIM Renewed Balance®. I decided to try it, and I have not had a single headache since I started using this cream.

As well, a doctor said I had two spots of cancer on my face. He froze them, but they did not look any better. I started putting Renewed Balance on them, and they are not scaly anymore and getting less noticeable. I have several age spots on my face, so I apply Renewed Balance on them daily. They are getting lighter, too. I have been using Renewed Balance for only three months, and I am very pleased.

I can now lead an active lifestyle without the interruptions of headaches. I go country-and-western dancing three times a week, line dancing twice a week, do water aerobics once a week, play water volleyball once a week, go to church every Sunday, play 42 (dominoes) once a week, and play Gin Rummy almost every day.

Thank you, AIM, for a wonderful product!

Joyce Strouth (Product User)“Sunshine Sally” in Lubbock, Texas

Testimonial

Testimonials should not be construed as representing results everybody can achieve. Not available in Canada.

Red Rush Sports ShirtMen’s and women’s cut, wick-away fabric, $15.00

Register for one-hour teleclasses by calling 1-800-456-2462, Option 1.

Feb. 10 Keep Your Heart Beating! (431.021) Liana Kopalyan, AIM Director Tuesday, Feb. 10,11:00 a.m. MT

Feb. 25 Healthy Body, Healthy Mind! (292.021) Raema Salmon, AIM Director Wednesday, Feb. 25*, 11:00 a.m. MT

*Note, this teleclass is on a different day.

Teleclass Tuesdays

Robert and Pat Scott, AIM Directors, of Arlington, Massachusetts, were the Outstanding Members of the Month for October. Our apologies to the Scotts as we had a misprint on this honor last month. They will receive $250.00 in FREE AIM products on their next order, plus receive FREE shipping.

In November, we had a tie for Outstanding Members of the Month between Noah and Sarah Stutzman, AIM Group Builders from Polk Ohio, and David and Emma Yoder, AIM Group Builders from Thorp, Wisconsin. The Stutzmans and Yoders will each receive $250.00 in FREE AIM products on their next order, plus receive FREE shipping. Each membership earned this honor by signing up the most new Members. They will all be entered into a drawing for two complimentary 2015 Scottsdale, Arizona conference packages for this coming June.

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Congrats to Outstanding Members of the Month

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News & Meetings

E-mail AIMWeb [email protected] to register. When you receive an e-mail re-sponse, follow directions to register for indi-vidual webinars. *Different day or time.Feb. 4 living life to the Fullest in

YOUR Body Type … Banana Celeste Davis, AIM Director and Living Well Coach Wednesday, Feb. 4, 1:00 p.m. MT

Feb. 11 Cancer & Nutrition, What’s the Connection? (Chinese) Yu-Shiaw Chen, PhD, AIM Chairman’s Club Director, Biochemist, Certified Nutritionist, Author, and Living Well Coach Wednesday, Feb. 11, 1:00 p.m. MT

Feb. 18 Growing Your AIM Business with Network Marketing Joan van Rensburg, AIM Chairman’s Club Director *Wednesday, Feb. 18, 11:00 a.m. MT 7:00 pm South Africa Time

Feb. 25 Peak Endurance for Strength and Recovery Ryan Davis, AIM QA Manager Wednesday, Feb. 25, 1:00 p.m. MT

Webinar Wednesdays

Holiday Closures & Call Center Hours The AIM Canada (Vancouver) office will

be closed Monday, February 9, for British Columbia Family Day. The AIM Canada (Calgary) warehouse will be closed Monday, February 16, for Alberta Family Day.

The AIM Call Center is now available to take your product orders from 6:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. MT at 1-800-456-2462.

Red Rush Athlete Brochure Now Available

The Red Rush Athlete Brochure was created as an easy and efficient way for Members to introduce Red Rush, our amazing beet juice shot, to the fitness-minded. Filled with athlete testimonials, scientific information, and a quick reference guide to the

product’s many benefits, this new brochure can help any AIM Member approach a different demographic and expand their client base. A 25-pack (6285E) is available for $3.75, and 100-packs (6286E) for $12.00 (USA and CAN).

Red Rush Sticker20", transparent, $3.00

Red Rush Wristbands25-pack, $7.50

Red Rush Tote Bag, canvas, $4.00

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Sports Pack AMR (Automatic Monthly Reorder)

Order with code AMRSPAK115 to receive one 12-pack of Red Rush for only $10.00 (no BVP, shipping not included)

This generates a Sports Pack AMR, for a minimum of three months at regular price, to be shipped the next business day

Each subsequent AMR order will include one Sports Pack (a one-month supply)

Canisters and labels may differ in each country.

Living Well – February 2015

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