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1. Focus on whole, minimally processed, nutrient-rich foods. This means you’ll be eating plenty of lean protein and plants — including grains. It’ll also help you limit refined grains.

2. Make sure your grains are thoroughly cooked. Cooking food drastically reduces its lectin, phytic acid, and protease inhibitor content. For example, fully cooking kidney beans knocks their lectin content from 20,000-70,000 units down to 200-400.

3. Try sprouted and fermented breads. To take it further, grains that have been sprouted (e.g. Ezekiel bread) or fermented (e.g. sourdough) have even lower levels of phytates, lectins, and protease inhibitors. This increases mineral bioavailability and also...

In this industry, fitness and Nutrition, I see people get frustrated with their results daily.

Results aren't coming fast enough to their liking, they aren't dropping in the areas they want to drop, the scale isn't moving, they are not wanting to wake up early or go home late.

There is a bevy of reasons why people get frustrated.

One element that gets clients, and even myself at times, frustrated... is DIET!

With so many conflicting theories on nutrition science. With endless diets advertised or miracle pills or cleanses; how do you make sense of what you are suppose to eat to lose weight or to gain muscle or to maintain your current body?

Precision Nutrition founder, John Berardi Ph.D, wrote a ...