Constantemente me preguntan cuánto tiempo dura esta "dieta", si es fácil o no y si pueden eliminar alimentos dañinos poco a poco, las respuestas son que MEISI no es una dieta, es una estrategia alimenticia, el tiempo depende de cada persona y si no se sigue al pie de la letra no van a tener los resultados esperados, lo más importante para obtener los resultados deseados es el COMPROMISO que ustedes mismos tengan CON SU BIENESTAR o el de sus seres queridos.
1. The health of children depends on the nutritional knowledge of the parents, as it is the key to proper growth, preventing overweight, and behavioral problems.
The family environment is crucial for the development of all its members, especially children. Parents are responsible for their children's first experiences, including nutrition (vital as it sustains the body), which shapes their preferences, tastes, habits, and behaviors. Parents are role models, so they also educate by example (through their actions), transmitting eating habits and directly influencing their children's health.
Both restriction and pressure, or excessive permissiveness in children's nutrition, often lead to the development of bad eating habits that affect discipline and health (both physical and mental). Parents' commitment must be genuine, fostering a taste for healthier foods. This means avoiding all processed foods and returning to family systems where meals are prepared with fresh, natural, and unprocessed ingredients. Junk food, sugars, flours, and dairy—all of which contain high levels of harmful substances—undermine children's health, cause illnesses, and even mental and emotional disorders.
Commitment to oneself: I think, say, and do the same thing.
Commitment, in the end, is nothing more than an act of will to do what one consciously wants. Unfortunately, we go through life in "autopilot" mode, doing a series of things that harm us in the short or long term, saying that we are going to change them, thinking that they are wrong... but doing nothing about it.
Commitment is one of the most important values because it allows us to modify behaviors for a better life, in all aspects of it
Immersed in a consumerist world, we believe that eating well means opening bags of frozen fruit or packaged vegetables, as well as cans, boxes, and packaging... all of which, in the end, contain food of questionable origin and quality (not to mention the added ingredients and hidden ones). We want to eat well, be healthy, but we don’t want to shop at markets, cook, and avoid at all costs what the food industry sells us as "healthy."
In this era, discipline and commitment are values of little importance; they have no place in the world of fast food, processed food, and a fast-paced life with no time for anything... not even our health.
3. Why don't we commit?
The commitment requires three things: effort (modifying behaviors), discipline, and gaining awareness. This represents investing time, changing things, and assuming that something is done wrong even if it goes against what is established.
In a fast-paced world, goals are short-term, the effects must be instantaneous, the effort minimal, and above all, one must go with the flow.
Eating healthily is a lifelong commitment. Going against the food industry, trends, diets, consumption habits, misinformation, and the entire system is not an easy task. There is no way to have health if there isn’t a foundation of nutrition that nourishes the body, which is impossible unless it is done with natural foods and cooked in our own kitchens.
We "believe" that commercial yogurts "are super healthy because they have probiotics," that boxed cereals "are the perfect breakfast," that processed and frozen meats (made with who knows what leftovers) are nutritious, and that cheeses that melt like plastic are "100% cow's milk." We believe this because we want to, because we are settled into a comfortable life of consumption... even though it harms us. Then, once we are sick, we contribute to the profits of the pharmaceutical and medical industries.
We don't commit, simply because we don't want to.
I know it's harmful to me, I know it's not healthy... but I eat it anyway.
The food industry has shaped our way of eating according to market interests. We know this, and yet we eat it.
We are incapable of living without "fast food," sodas, and packaged snacks... we consume absurd amounts of sugars, flours, and dairy (which, by the way, are of poor quality), but we can't manage to take a few months, change our habits, create a new way of eating, and carry it out for a lifetime. The only ones responsible for this are us. Poor us! How will we EVER LIVE without going to the movies and NOT eating something, anything? How will we manage to be without ever eating a piece of packaged junk chocolate again? HOW?
Food is full of additives that cause alterations in our intestines and brain to create addictions and prevent satiety. Changing the way we eat requires a great effort because, in the end, it’s a battle against addiction, whether we like the idea or not.
It's no surprise the increase in diseases of all kinds, because even though our bodies are alive and functioning... they are not truly nourished, they don't receive the nutrients they need. As if that weren't enough, we resort to replacing food with whatever supplements and vitamins we come across along the way.
I know it's harmful to me, I know it's not healthy, I eat it... and I pay the consequences. This is the reality: most of our diseases are directly related to what we've eaten, whether we like it or not.
In the MEISI book you will find the theory that supports this methodology, and in the Transformative Cooking recipe book, the way to put it into practice. Information and determination are all you need to regain your well-being.
