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You Have Options With AIM
You Have Options
With AIMThe AIM Companies™ has been Member-driven ever since its launch in 1982. This means Members are the actual retailers who promote AIM nutrition from home as independent distributors. This effectively eliminates the costs associated with opening and operating physical retail shops. It is the nature of network marketing: a viable way for people to be in a business with unlimited earning potential without massive overhead. AIM remains adamant about providing Members with high-quality supplements and maintaining integrity for the business model used to distribute them. It’s a system that works to deliver nutrition that works. The fact of the matter is that a majority of Members purchase products for their personal use without being active in the business opportunity. And that’s okay—AIM is committed to providing exceptional, wholesome nutrition first and foremost. But not everyone also wants to be a distributor of the AIM products. To provide options for individual preferences, things are changing at AIM.
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For those who are intent on growing a business, becoming an AIM Member is the option to choose. Being in business gives you a domino effect of options: Member wholesale prices, volume discounts, combo-pack savings, AMR orders, shipping discounts, a free website with AIM support, contest opportunities and rebate earnings on your own product purchases and those in your downline, which now includes AIM Customers.
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Choosing the option of being an AIM Customer gives you special product prices on your orders, combo-pack savings, free standard shipping and loyalty rewards. It’s AIM simplified with perks! And any time the urge arises to become an AIM Member, a R200.00 membership fee facilitates the easy transition.
AIM options increase the benefits of being under the welcoming umbrella of the AIM Family.
contents
2You Have Options With AIM
4 PROTEIN Essential to Growth & Maintenance of a Healthy Body
6Into AIM’s Future
8 It All STARTED With a Canister of AIM BarleyLife
10 Internet and Advertising Guidelines Key Points
12 How to use AIM Products
15 TAX Time
16 Children’s Health Through Nutrition
18 Healthy Travels
19 Fresh Focus CellSpark 360 20 I Can SEE Clearly now
23 Kidz Corner
E-mail: aimordersza@aimintl.com Support Centre: 011 675 0477 Fax: 011 675 0427 CELL PROTECTIONSept - Oct ‘22
Vol. 25 No. 5
AIM mission statement
To improve the quality and productivity of people’s lives by promoting the Healthy Cell Concept and the highest principles of free enterprise.
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CELL FOOD PROTEIN
By Charlotte Meschede - Nutritionist
Generally, it is recommended to eat at least 0.8 grams of protein per kilogram body weight per day. However, this is a fairly low amount and most people eat more than this. The rule is to make sure you get enough, but not too much. High protein diets are only recommended by physicians under specific circumstances.
Even though there is a plethora of information available on internet search engines, I think going back to basics in terms of human nutrition is not necessarily out of place. Whilst many, if not most AIM Members know what a protein is, and what foods contain proteins, many of our Members may not fully understand the importance of proteins in the diet and where to find the best quality proteins. So yes, different proteins have different properties, which are relevant in terms of the types of food one eats and where an individual is with regard to specific stages in life. Infants and children need certain nutrients to ensure adequate growth and development of all their body systems, such as the brain and nervous system. Older people need to ensure adequate nutrition to maintain normal function, prevent deficiencies such as calcium deficiency, which is very common in advanced age due to the dietary choices, availability of food and other limitations people may face. What are proteins?
I use the analogy that proteins form the ‘texture’ of the body. Without protein, there would be no structure. Almost like a house, in which there are walls, a plumbing system, electrical wires, cooking equipment and a system in which all these features function dependently on the efficiency of the other. Protein is made from basic units, which are called amino acids. In the human body, there are 9 essential amino acids in infants and 8 essential amino acids in adults. In all, the human body requires 20 amino acids. Essential amino acids refer to those amino acids that cannot be manufactured in the body and therefore have to be supplied by the diet. Non-essential amino acids can be formed in the body provided the compounds necessary to make them are available.
How much protein do we need?
Infants and children require more protein per kilogram body mass than adults do. This is simply so normal growth and development can occur. Protein requirements are dictated by: • Age • Gender • Weight • Height • Overall health • Amount of exercise (example endurance athletes will require more) • Muscle mass • Pregnancy or breastfeeding • Chronic diseases
Which foods contain protein?
Most people equate protein-rich food with animal foods and to a large extent this is true. However, there is a global trend towards eating fewer animal foods and in particular red meat, so we do need to explore the other non-animal sources of protein. This drive towards vegetarianism is as much driven by compassion and a desire to end cruelty to animals, as it is by the stark reality that meat farming increases the methane concentration in the atmosphere and is simply not environmentally sustaining. The main criterion as far as adequate protein intake is concerned, is to ensure that infants receive the 9 essential amino acids and adults get their dose of 8 essential amino acids (EAA). Most animal proteins contain all of these EAA so that is why becoming a vegetarian or a vegan may jeopardise your protein intake in terms of essential nutrients. This is obviously particularly relevant in the vulnerable stages of life such as childhood, menopause and old age. I am not going to elaborate on animal sources of protein as we all know what those are, but investigate the availability of protein-rich plant foods as this is particularly relevant to our introduction and use of AIM ProPeas. Vegetarians can obtain their protein from dairy foods and eggs (lacto-ova vegetarians) as well as from plants. Vegans, however, rely totally on plant foods such as nuts, seeds, legumes, avocados and vegetables. Industry has done much to facilitate this demand by making soya, oat, almond and rice ‘milk’, as well as nut and seed butters in addition to eating all the above-mentioned foods in their natural form.
The benefits of AIM ProPeas
Since AIM ProPeas is a protein powder, it is prudent to compare it with other protein powders that are marketed so avidly. ProPeas is a totally vegan, nonGMO, gluten-free and sugar free protein powder. In addition to not containing any milk proteins like whey and casein (which are the milk proteins associated with milk allergies as well as the sugar in milk, lactose), this product also does not contain soy, a common allergen. AIM Propeas contains the 9 essential amino acids as well as the branch-chain amino acids, which are so vital in the prevention of age-related muscle degradation. Most protein-rich plants do not contain the latter in adequate quantities. In terms of amount of protein per serving, one scoop of Propeas will provide 12 grams of protein, which if you consider the recommendations listed above, is a useful addition to a diet which may be compromised in terms of the quality and quantity of protein due to dietary choices and food availability.
Conclusion
Adequate protein in the diet is essential for growth and development for maintenance of healthy body systems.
