The meal: Brown rice pasta with stir-fried tofu, mushrooms, kale in a little bit of olive oil and some low-sodium soy sauce and an orange.

Kimberly Snyder's assessment: "This lunch isn't horrible, especially if Devran is cooking it herself. It has a macrobiotic theme to it, minus the fruit since fruit is considered an occasional rather than a main staple of the macrobiotic diet.

Tofu is OK occasionally, but I don't recommend in on a daily basis. Soy in our country is now a mass produced crop that is not only one of the most heavily sprayed with pesticides, but it is also highly genetically engineered. Genetically modified foods can increase food sensitivities, which may be why soy has become one of the top allergenic foods in America. Soy is also a trypsin inhibitor, meaning it keeps us from assimilating protein correctly, and at the same time it contains isoflavones, which have been known to depress thyroid function. It also contains phytoestrogens that mimic hormones in our body and can lead to complications. So while we may consume limited amounts of soy from time to time, it should not be a large mainstay of the diet. In 'The Beauty Detox Solution' I also explain which soy options are best. For example, tempeh, which is a fermented soy product, is actually a better option than tofu."

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"The brown rice pasta is a good option, but she should try swapping it for quinoa pasta if it's available, since quinoa is a delicious whole grain that has all essential amino acids. Instead of cooking with olive oil I would suggest coconut oil, which is made up of medium chain fatty acids that maintain their structure and don't become rancid when heated. It also has a lot of beautifying properties and may help burn excess body fat. Low-sodium soy sauce is OK, but we must be aware that it still contains wheat, and therefore gluten, so an easy switch to consider is low-sodium tamari, which has a similar flavor profile but is wheat-free.

From the way Devran described her lunch, it sounds like she ate the orange last. Fruit digests very quickly in the stomach (in around 25 minutes), and if we eat it for dessert after heavier foods which take a few hours to digest, it gets backed up in our system like a traffic jam and can ferment, leading to bloating and other issues, so it essentially rots before we can assimilate all of its nutrients. I'd like her to switch to eating it first, or a few hours later as a snack."

Next: Assistant Editor Sharon's lunch is appraised...

The meal: Ox tail soup with tofu and seaweed. Rice, an over-hard egg, sauteed anchovies with green peppers, sesame leaves -- all mixed with chili paste.

Kimberly Snyder's assessment: "Well I�m happy to see something here in Sharon's lunch I don't see in a lot of lunches: seaweed! Seaweed, a.k.a. sea vegetables, is a very rich source of beta-carotene, chlorophyll, enzymes, amino acids, and fiber. They are one of the most nutritionally dense sources of vitamins and minerals of any food, much higher than land vegetables. They are high in thyroid-nourishing iodine, while being low in bloating sodium.

This is a wonderful form of green plant food, and I encourage her to keep it in her diet and in her lunches. If you are ever at a Japanese restaurant be sure to order the seaweed salad. Also, an easy way to incorporate sea vegetables into your diet is to visit the Asian section of your health market. You'll find nori (the flat black sheets they wrap sushi in), dulse flakes and kelp. Cut up or sprinkle these sea vegetables into your salads, to get a wonderful boost of beauty minerals. Start with small amounts especially if you are new to the taste. I personally try to incorporate some form of sea vegetable into my diet every day.

On the downside, there are many types of protein in this one meal: Ox tail (beef tails), tofu (soy), egg, anchovies (fish). Protein takes the most digestive work to break down, as the foods have to be broken down into amino acids first from complex chains. Each type of protein requires specific substrates to break it down, so to eat so many types of protein at the same time is exhausting to our digestive system, and our overall energy."

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"I would like to see Sharon pick one type of protein, and supplement the rest of the dish with more sea vegetables and more of the other vegetables.

If she could also choose between the rice or the one protein, to eat along with the veggies that would be best. Eating concentrated proteins and starches are a lot of digestive work as well and that takes away from our 'Beauty Energy,' which is energy that can be redirected away from digestion to repair the collagen in our skin, grow in thick, healthy hair, and clear up dark under eye circles, etc.

Also, note that chili pastes are typically made with oil (and not always the best quality oil) so remember to use them in moderation."

Next: Kimberly Snyder's suggestions for Project Manager, Jess..

The meal: Eat Right Macaroni and Cheese Frozen Meal, 1/2 cup of watermelon, 1/2 cup of mango, 1/2 cup of sugar snap peas, 2 Girl Scout cookies, 100 Calorie pack popcorn, nonfat blueberry yogurt, 1 whole tomato

Kimberly Snyder's assessment: "First of all, there are so many different foods in this lunch that it is mind-boggling (and definitely belly-boggling). Indiscriminately eating so many different kinds of food groups at once takes an enormous amount of work to digest.

My first piece of advice to Jess is simplify her meal into fewer food groups. A salad with different veggies in it is one thing, as the veggies digest easily and well, but here, there are a few different kinds of dairy (the cheese in the mac and cheese and yogurt), two different kinds of fruit, various forms of starches (in the cookies and popcorn), and a few veggies thrown in there (though none of them are dark, leafy veggies, which would be nice).

To be blunt, the "Eat Right Macaroni and Cheese Frozen Meal" should be called "Eat Wrong." Frozen mac and cheese contains three top inflammatory, allergenic foods: gluten, in the form of the flour for the macaroni, dairy, in the cheese, and most likely various forms of corn, in the form of corn starch, tapioca starch or one of the dozens of other aliases corn goes by.

On to the yogurt. To me, nonfat yogurt screams artificial and problematic sweeteners, and when I checked ingredient lists online I saw such products containing fructose and sucralose. Fructose has been shown to encourage weight gain in lab studies, and sucralose may be linked to numerous toxicity and health issues. I recommend never, ever putting either in your body. We need to avoid artificial sweeteners like the plague.

Then we get to the (seemingly healthy) fruit. The problem? Fruit shouldn't be mixed with the other foods, it should come at least 30 minutes before or 45 minutes after. Fruit digests very quickly in the stomach (around 25 minutes), and if we mix it with heavier foods which take a few hours to digest, it gets backed up in our system like a traffic jam and can ferment, leading to bloating and other issues, so it essentially rots before we can assimilate all of its nutrients."

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