If a food powder dissolves pretty easily in liquid, chances are good that it comes with silicon dioxide. The problem with silicon dioxide is that if you inhale even very small quantities, over time, enough silicon dioxide dust can become lodged in your lungs or elsewhere in your respiratory tract to cause silicosis, bronchitis, or possibly even cancer. Silica doesn't dissolve over time, so the effects of silica exposure are cumulative. In my opinion, everyone should avoid silicon dioxide, but young children, the elderly, and people who have asthma or any other health challenge related to the respiratory tract should take extra care to avoid exposure.

If you are looking for a healthy, yummy dessert, this is it!  In 12 Simple Ways to Supercharge Your Brain the author lists eating almonds and apples to sharpen your memory and increase the essential neurotransmitter acetylcholine. 

Combine the following in your VitaMix and blend up, smooth or chunky.  Add a little water or apple juice if you need to smooth it:

• 6-12 Medjool Dates (pits removed)
• 1/2 C. raw organic Walnuts
• 1/2 C. organic Almond Butter
• 1 C. unsweetened organic grated Coconut
• 4 Apples, chopped, no cores

Pour into pie plate and freeze until set.  Simple but delicious!

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Can Christians do Meridian Tapping?

This question came up in a recent recorded session I was listening to by Margaret Lynch who helps people, with Emotional Freedom Technique tapping (i.e., meridian tapping), to overcome anxiety, fear, and other negative feelings about money-- negative feelings-- often because of debt-- negative feelings that prevent them from prospering financially. *Margaret is offering a deluxe hardcopy (or alternate digital) program that will show you how to intentionally "step into your life purpose". She uses meridian tapping to do this.

Rather than suggesting that a person can believe this or that, Margaret suggests that sometimes people are fearful of trying tapping because they see it as something that doesn't have a solid medical or Church-approved base. She points out that tapping is based on 'acupressure' points-- that people naturally massage those points to relieve pain, headaches, worry, etc.-- and that acupuncture, the use of needles on acupressure points (meridians) is respectfully used in American medicine. She further suggests that in the next five years we will observe a huge shift away from traditional "talk therapy" to the use of more and more "energy psychology" techniques like EFT and meridian tapping-- tapping is just so much faster than conventional "talk therapy" in achieving its goals.