Pudra de roscove - mai sanatoasa decat cacaua

Deși provine din regiunile mediteraneene, pudra de roșcove și-a găsit mulți susținători și pe meleagurile noastre, datorită calităților și gustului plăcut. Obținută prin măcinarea păstăilor de roșcove coapte, pudra este folosită ca îndulcitor natural, dar și ca înlocuitor pentru cacao. Poate fi consumată atât de adulți, cât și de copii, deoarece are multe beneficii pentru sănătate. Părinții, în special, preferă să o folosească mai ales pentru a le prepara celor mici dulciuri sănătoase de casă.

În ciuda creșterii gradului de conștientizare a influenței alimentelor asupra sănătății, bolile legate de alimentație sunt încă o problemă în creștere în lumea occidentală. Prăjiturile și dulciurile sunt ușor consumate ca gustări sau deserturi. Aceste produse conțin în general ingrediente de calitate scăzută, cum ar fi grăsimi saturate, și au o densitate energetică ridicată și un efect de sațietate scăzut.

Este bogată în polifenoli

Păstăile de roșcove conțin cantități mici de proteine ​​(3–4%) și lipide (0,4–0,8%) și cantități semnificative de carbohidrați (76%), în principal solubili, cum ar fi zaharoza. Pudra de roșcove este bogată în polifenoli, în special în taninuri condensate și acid galic, care este responsabil pentru modularea expresiei genelor și protejarea celulelor adenomului de colon de impactul genotoxic al peroxidului de oxigen.

Bogată în nutrimente, săracă în calorii

Pudra de roșcove nu conține grăsimi, însă e o sursă de fibre mai bună decât cacaua. Fibrele ajută la reglarea colesterolului și a tensiunii arteriale, la prevenirea constipației și la păstrarea unei greutăți adecvate. Se pare că pudra de roșcove este indicată și pentru persoanele care țin cură de slăbire, pentru că ajută la scăderea apetitului și dă senzația de sațietate pentru mai mult timp. De asemenea, carobul conține fier, cupru, zinc, mangan și vitamina A,  ultima dintre acestea fiind utilă pentru păstrarea sănătății oculare.

Conține calciu, dar nu oxalați

Pudra de roșcove le este indicată și persoanelor care au avut pietre la rinichi și care mențin o dietă care exclude oxalații. Deși are calciu în conținut, pudra de roșcove nu are și oxalați, precum cacaua. Aceștia reduc capacitatea corpului de a absorbi calciul și, pe termen lung, o alimentație bogată în oxalați crește riscul de apariție a problemelor renale. Calciul, pe de altă parte, este important pentru sănătatea osoasă și ajută la funcționarea corespunzătoare a inimii, mușchilor și nervilor.

Este o sursă de antioxidanți

Cercetările au arătat că pudra de roșcove este o sursă de polifenoli, conținând nu mai puțin de 24, printre care flavonoide și acid galic. Aceștia reduc stresul oxidativ și luptă împotriva radicalilor liberi, având proprietăți antiinflamatoare, antidiabetice, anticanceroase și neuroprotectoare. De asemenea, quercetina are și ea efecte pozitive în combaterea celulelor canceroase.

Nu conține sodiu, cofeină, tiamină și gluten

Multe persoane consumă prea multă sare, atât din alimente, cât și adăugată, crescându-și riscul de hipertensiune, osteoporoză, probleme renale, accident vascular cerebral și atac de cord. Pudra de roșcove nu conține sodiu, motiv pentru care poate fi folosită de persoanele care trebuie să evite sarea. Dacă vrei să eviți cofeina și ești în căutarea unui înlocuitor pentru ciocolată, poți folosi pudră de roșcove în deserturi. Aceasta nu are cofeină și deci nu va avea nici efectele neplăcute pe care le poate cauza aceasta: insomnii, ritm cardiac accelerat, iritabilitate sau tulburări gastrice. De asemenea, spre deosebire de cacao, carobul nu conține nici tiamină, un aminoacid care poate declanșa migrenele. Și persoanele alergice la gluten sau cu boală celiacă pot consuma carob, deoarece acesta nu are în compoziție nici gluten.

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Scorțișoara, stimulatorul parfumat al organismului uman

Raionul de condimente de pe rafturile centrale ale magazinelor este foarte bogat în arome intense și compuși bioactivi eficienți. Condiment faimos, scorțișoara provine de la coaja unui copac care își are originea în teritoriul actual al statului Sri Lanka, fostul Ceylon. Să-i depănăm povestea!

Scorțișoara, folosită în China de mai bine de 4.000 de ani, a fost adusă în Europa de exploratori din estul Asiei, pe Drumul Mătăsii. De aici, acest condiment și-a făcut drum către bucătăriile și tradițiile de vindecare ale culturilor din India, Roma antică, nordul Africii și Orientul Mijlociu. Pe piață, scorțișoara este vândută atât sub formă de praf, cât și de bețișoare făcute din coaja copacului, cunoscute ca rulouri. Acest condiment popular oferă o aromă sofisticată, picantă, dulce și citrică și este călit, infuzat, copt și marinat, precum și presărat peste alimente și băuturi fierte. „Scorțișoara conține peste 20 de compuși bioactivi care îți pot influența metabolismul”, remarca Dr. William W. Li în studiul „Mănâncă și învinge dieta” (Editura Lifestyle, 2024).

Compuși bioactivi-cheie

Să-i identificăm! „Extractul de scorțișoară - a reluat Dr. Li - determină transformarea celulelor adipoase albe în celule adipoase brune și crește cantitatea de proteină necuplată din celulă, cea care declanșează termogeneza din grăsimea brună. Unul dintre compușii bioactivi speciali din scorțișoară se numește cinamaldehidă. Ea activează anumiți receptori determinând astfel creierul să elibereze catecolamine, același hormon al stresului care se activează când consumi ardei iuți. Acest lucru declanșează o reacție în lanț în grăsimea brună, care conduce la termogeneză. Un alt compus din scorțișoară, eugenolul, crește numărul bacteriilor sănătoase din microbiom și protejează împotriva obezității”

Studii științifice

Pe aceeași linie: „Un studiu asupra scorțișoarei a fost realizat de Centrul de Excelență pentru Diabet, Boli Metabolice și Endocrinologie din India. Cercetătorii au recrutat 129 de bărbați și femei cu vârsta medie de 45 de ani, care erau obezi și sufereau de sindrom metabolic (adică prezentau cel puțin trei dintre următoarele simptome: tensiune arterială ridicată, glicemie ridicată, valori mari ale trigliceridelor, valori scăzute ale colesterolului bun HDL și obezitate abdominală). Jumătate dintre participanți au primit echivalentul unei jumătăți de linguriță (3 g) de scorțișoară pe care trebuiau să o consume zilnic. Scorțișoara a fost administrată sub forma unei capsule asemănătoare unui supliment, astfel încât dozarea a putut fi exactă și ușor de înghițit. Cealaltă jumătate au primit o capsulă placebo care conținea pudră de grâu prăjit cu aromă de scorțișoară, dar fără a conține efectiv scorțișoară”.

Procente uluitoare

Rezultatele? „Cu patru săptămâni înainte de a lua capsulele, toți subiecții au început o dietă sănătoasă. De asemenea, li s-a recomandat să facă zilnic o plimbare în pas rapid timp de 45 de minute. Ei au continuat să urmeze dieta sănătoasă și programul de mișcare cât au consumat scorțișoara sau placebo, timp de 16 săptămâni. S-au realizat măsurători corporale și teste de sânge la începutul și la sfârșitul studiului. Subiecții care au mâncat scorțișoară au pierdut 3,4 kg, adică de zece ori mai mult decât greutatea pierdută de grupul placebo (363 g). Consumatorii de scorțișoară și-au diminuat și circumferința taliei cu 5,5 cm, de șapte ori mai mult decât grupul placebo. Valorile ridicate ale glicemiei preprandiale și ale hemoglobinei s-au ameliorat, scăzând cu 10%. De asemenea, scorțișoara a redus tensiunea arterială sistolică cu 13 puncte, adică de două ori mai mult decât în rândul participanților placebo. Per ansamblu, scorțișoara a diminuat problemele sindromului metabolic cu 35%, de șapte ori mai mult decât în grupul placebo, fără efecte secundare raportate ca urmare a consumului acestui condiment”.

Ponturi, sfaturi, recomandări

La final: „Pe piață poți găsi două tipuri de scorțișoară: cea de Ceylon, care este scorțișoara adevărată, și scorțișoara cassia, care are exact același gust, dar nu provine de la arborele de scorțișoară. Ambele tipuri activează grăsimea brună. Scorțișoara cassia conține însă o cantitate mică de cumarină, un anticoagulant puternic care este prezent doar în cantități minuscule în varietatea Ceylon, așa că aceasta ar putea fi o problemă pentru persoanele care iau anticoagulante din motive medicale. Este bine să verifici eticheta pentru a determina tipul de scorțișoară pe care îl cumperi, dar, dacă te îngrijorează efectele anticoagulante, întreabă medicul. Dacă ai îndoieli, alege scorțișoara Ceylon. Este cea adevărată”.

Păpădia – o planta extrem de benefică

Păpădia nu este o buruiană, ci o farmacie galbenă care sparge asfaltul. Rădăcina păpădiei este atât de puternică încât poate perfora cimentul sau solul tasat pentru a ajunge la apă, aerisind pământul pentru alte plante mai slabe. Este singura plantă din flora spontană la care fiecare parte este comestibilă și medicinală: rădăcina prăjită este un înlocuitor de cafea care curăță ficatul, frunzele sunt pline de fier și vitamine (mai mult decât spanacul), iar florile fac vin și miere. A fost adusă intenționat în America de coloniști ca plantă de supraviețuire, nu a ajuns acolo accidental.

Această rădăcină pivotantă, care poate coborî până la un metru adâncime, funcționează ca o pompă biologică de nutrienți. Ea extrage minerale precum calciul, potasiul și fierul din straturile profunde ale solului, inaccesibile ierbii obișnuite sau legumelor de grădină. Când planta moare toamna, aceste minerale sunt eliberate la suprafață prin descompunerea frunzelor, fertilizând natural solul pentru vegetația din jur. În plus, canalele lăsate în pământ de rădăcinile putrezite permit apei de ploaie și ramelor să pătrundă adânc, prevenind eroziunea.

Frunzele tinere, culese primăvara devreme înainte de înflorire, sunt o pline de nutrienți. Ele conțin o concentrație remarcabilă de vitamina K, esențială pentru sănătatea oaselor și coagularea sângelui, oferind peste 500% din doza zilnică recomandată la o suta de grame. Gustul lor amărui este dat de substanțe numite sesquiterpene, care stimulează digestia și secreția biliară. În bucătăria franceză, aceste frunze sunt considerate o delicatesă pentru salate, fiind cunoscute pentru efectul lor diuretic blând, care ajută la eliminarea retenției de apă fără a epuiza potasiul din corp.

Tulpina goală pe interior secretă, atunci când este ruptă, un lichid lăptos alb. Acesta este, de fapt, un latex natural, o formă de cauciuc vegetal. În timpul celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial, când sursele de cauciuc erau limitate, s-au făcut cercetări intense pentru a extrage cauciuc din anumite specii de păpădie (precum Taraxacum kok-saghyz). Deși proiectele au fost abandonate după revenirea la normalitate, știința modernă reevaluează astăzi această sevă ca o alternativă sustenabilă și hipoalergenică la cauciucul arborelui de cauciuc.

Florile galbene strălucitoare sunt mult mai mult decât simple decorațiuni de câmp. Ele sunt bogate în antioxidanți puternici, precum luteina și zeaxantina, care protejează retina ochilor de degenerare. Din aceste flori se prepară un sirop gros și auriu, cunoscut popular drept „miere de păpădie”. Deși nu este produs de albine, acest sirop are o consistență și un gust remarcabil de similare cu mierea reală, fiind un îndulcitor vegan excelent și un remediu tradițional pentru durerile de gât și tuse.

Dinamica de reproducere a păpădiei este un fenomen biologic fascinant numit apomixis. Aceasta înseamnă că planta poate produce semințe viabile fără a avea nevoie de polenizare încrucișată. Practic, marea majoritate a păpădiilor sunt clone perfecte ale plantei-mamă. Această strategie genetică asigură succesul speciei: dacă o plantă este robustă și adaptată mediului, toți urmașii ei vor moșteni exact aceleași trăsături de supraviețuire, permițând colonizarea rapidă a oricărui petic de pământ liber.

Semințele, acele pufuri albe pe care copiii le suflă, sunt o minune a ingineriei aerodinamice. Fiecare sămânță este atașată de o parașută fină numită pappus. Cercetătorii au descoperit că această structură creează un vortex de aer stabil deasupra ei (un inel de aer rotitor), care generează o portanță de patru ori mai eficientă decât o parașută convențională. Datorită acestui mecanism, o singură sămânță poate călători kilometri întregi purtată de curenții termici, aterizând în locuri unde nicio altă plantă nu ar ajunge.

Pentru ecosistem, păpădia este o plantă salvatoare, fiind una dintre primele surse de hrană disponibile după iarnă. Într-o perioadă în care pomii fructiferi încă nu au înflorit, polenul și nectarul păpădiei sunt vitale pentru supraviețuirea albinelor, bondarilor și fluturilor care ies din hibernare. O peluză plină de păpădii în martie sau aprilie este, practic, o stație de alimentare esențială pentru polenizatorii care vor asigura ulterior recoltele agricole.

Rădăcina, pe lângă rolul de „cafea” fără cofeină, este o sursă bogată de inulină. Inulina este un tip de fibră solubilă care acționează ca un prebiotic, hrănind bacteriile benefice din intestin. Spre deosebire de amidon, inulina nu ridică glicemia, ceea ce face ca rădăcina de păpădie să fie un aliment sigur și benefic pentru diabetici. Recoltată toamna, când planta își retrage energia în subteran, rădăcina are concentrația maximă de principii active.

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“We want this to happen organically.”
Organically is a word of this millennium. I know it existed pre-2000, but its meaning has enhanced over the past 20 years.
Without actually looking up its definition, I think that when used in reference to food, it’s supposed to mean the food has been grown without unnatural help. Without being manipulated into getting bigger or juicier any faster than it could on its own.
Really, it’s how things should be, right?
Naturally occurring. Unforced.
But I was baffled the first time a company approached me about talking about their products and used that word.
They weren’t talking about the ingredients in their product. They were talking about how I would talk about those products.
This was probably 2010, and I was new to the blogging world, but I knew enough to say: Will I be compensated?
And they went back to that word. “We really want it to be organic.”
In a la la way, they were being ambiguous and making their way sound ideal. Authentic. Without anything being forced or manipulated.
But because the question was “Money?” and the answer was “Organic!” I realized that what they were actually saying was: We want you to work for free and we’re going to use the word organic to make it sound like you getting paid (like we are) … would be a bad thing. As bad as a radioactive tomato.
Which is fine. I can respect their efforts and desires. And of COURSE it’s best when someone raves about their product without prompting or manipulation.
But the thing about something happening organically is that there’s no guarantee it’s going to happen.
So many times, I wished that cleaning would happen organically in my home. I don’t even mean the products I used. I mean the way it would happen.
Naturally.
Unforced.
Unmanipulated.
Throughout my day, as I went.
And so I would wait. I waited for inspiration to hit. For the perfect intersection of energy and available time.
I waited for “organic” to happen.
But just like I might or might not talk about a product when I’m waiting for the thought to occur at the same time as I have nothing else more urgent or exciting to talk about, I might or might not clean my toilet when I’m waiting for it to happen organically.
It’s not a company’s ideal to have to pay someone to guarantee they’ll make room in their busy schedule and on their highly trafficked cleaning blog to mention their product.
It’s not my ideal to have to assign bathroom cleaning to Tuesdays to guarantee(ish) the bathrooms will actually get cleaned.
I find myself saying (and I’m sure they’ve found themselves saying): It shouldn’t have to be this way.
Except that I want my bathrooms cleaned. And they want their products in front of the eyeballs of people on the internet.
And if we’re all determined to not force anything and keep everything ideal, toilets get dirtier and harder to clean and someone else’s dish scrubber gets bragged about while ours waits around to be noticed.
Here’s my point: If I wait for things to happen organically, I may be waiting a very long time. If I want something done, I have to accept the reality of my situation and my brain and manipulate accordingly.
Not that there can’t be a mixing of organic with manipulation with the goal of an ideal compromise.
Organic farmers don’t just walk around their fields looking for whatever has popped up to take to market.
They work hard to make the things they want to happen … happen. I’m no expert, but I know they do. They research which plants or other un-manipulated stuff keeps bugs away. They find those things and use those things.
And I’m sure they talk to other organic farmers to continue learning all the time.
I have to put routines and non-negotiable tasks into place to make sure things happen.
No matter how many times I tell myself I should take every dish straight to the dishwasher the moment it’s dirty, I don’t. No matter how many times I lecture myself about the need to put something away as soon as I’m done using it, things leap from my hand to the nearest flat surface without my brain registering what’s happening. Or not happening.
So I do a five minute pickup.
And I don’t even do that ideally. Ideally, I would organically set the timer at the same time every evening and my family members would organically arise from their various chairs and tables and pick up the day’s assortment of out-of-place items. While smiling. Unforced, organic smiles.
Instead, I make a loud announcement whenever I happen to think of doing a five minute pickup. I am met with groans and/or heavy sighs every single time. I yell from the kitchen, “OK. I’m about to push start on the oven timer. Is everyone, I mean EVERYone … on their feet??!?”
I could moan about how this shouldn’t be so hard. How it shouldn’t feel so unnatural. How we should all see what needs to be done and just do it without having to be reminded or held accountable.
That would be easier, right? In an ideal world.

But I don’t live in an ideal world. And inwardly (or outwardly) groaning about doing the dishes again makes my house look and function a whole lot better than wishing I would have done it immediately and hoping tomorrow this will all function more organically.
Finally, after nine-hundred-and-something words, I looked up the word “organic” and honestly … I’m more confused now.
But that kind of proves my point. In all of these contexts (marketing, cleaning, farming) it can be a bit of an ambiguous term.
Ambiguous terms don’t help me much in my home. Doing my dishes no matter how unnatural it feels, does.
 
P.S. Since this might make someone who is new around here wonder, I always say clearly when a company has paid me to talk about their product, and I say no to A LOT products. I only accept sponsored work for products I love or have honestly wondered about, and assume y’all might have wondered about, too. 
P.P.S I’ve written books about how I do what needs to be done even though it doesn’t happen organically for me. How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind teaches you what to do when your home organically becomes a total disaster, again and again, and you can’t figure out why. Decluttering at the Speed of Life teaches you my step by step process to declutter the surfaces, drawers, rooms and closets that organically fill with random junk. 
P.P.P.S I wrote this post in about two-and-a-half hours (if you listened to podcast 187, you know that’s a big deal) after reading the word “organically” in a non-cleaning-related email from Jon Acuff this morning. If you’re a writer or speaker, you should follow him. He’s helpful and funny. 

–Nony

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“We want this to happen organically.”
Organically is a word of this millennium. I know it existed pre-2000, but its meaning has enhanced over the past 20 years.
Without actually looking up its definition, I think that when used in reference to food, it’s supposed to mean the food has been grown without unnatural help. Without being manipulated into getting bigger or juicier any faster than it could on its own.
Really, it’s how things should be, right?
Naturally occurring. Unforced.
But I was baffled the first time a company approached me about talking about their products and used that word.
They weren’t talking about the ingredients in their product. They were talking about how I would talk about those products.
This was probably 2010, and I was new to the blogging world, but I knew enough to say: Will I be compensated?
And they went back to that word. “We really want it to be organic.”
In a la la way, they were being ambiguous and making their way sound ideal. Authentic. Without anything being forced or manipulated.
But because the question was “Money?” and the answer was “Organic!” I realized that what they were actually saying was: We want you to work for free and we’re going to use the word organic to make it sound like you getting paid (like we are) … would be a bad thing. As bad as a radioactive tomato.
Which is fine. I can respect their efforts and desires. And of COURSE it’s best when someone raves about their product without prompting or manipulation.
But the thing about something happening organically is that there’s no guarantee it’s going to happen.
So many times, I wished that cleaning would happen organically in my home. I don’t even mean the products I used. I mean the way it would happen.
Naturally.
Unforced.
Unmanipulated.
Throughout my day, as I went.
And so I would wait. I waited for inspiration to hit. For the perfect intersection of energy and available time.
I waited for “organic” to happen.
But just like I might or might not talk about a product when I’m waiting for the thought to occur at the same time as I have nothing else more urgent or exciting to talk about, I might or might not clean my toilet when I’m waiting for it to happen organically.
It’s not a company’s ideal to have to pay someone to guarantee they’ll make room in their busy schedule and on their highly trafficked cleaning blog to mention their product.
It’s not my ideal to have to assign bathroom cleaning to Tuesdays to guarantee(ish) the bathrooms will actually get cleaned.
I find myself saying (and I’m sure they’ve found themselves saying): It shouldn’t have to be this way.
Except that I want my bathrooms cleaned. And they want their products in front of the eyeballs of people on the internet.
And if we’re all determined to not force anything and keep everything ideal, toilets get dirtier and harder to clean and someone else’s dish scrubber gets bragged about while ours waits around to be noticed.
Here’s my point: If I wait for things to happen organically, I may be waiting a very long time. If I want something done, I have to accept the reality of my situation and my brain and manipulate accordingly.
Not that there can’t be a mixing of organic with manipulation with the goal of an ideal compromise.
Organic farmers don’t just walk around their fields looking for whatever has popped up to take to market.
They work hard to make the things they want to happen … happen. I’m no expert, but I know they do. They research which plants or other un-manipulated stuff keeps bugs away. They find those things and use those things.
And I’m sure they talk to other organic farmers to continue learning all the time.
I have to put routines and non-negotiable tasks into place to make sure things happen.
No matter how many times I tell myself I should take every dish straight to the dishwasher the moment it’s dirty, I don’t. No matter how many times I lecture myself about the need to put something away as soon as I’m done using it, things leap from my hand to the nearest flat surface without my brain registering what’s happening. Or not happening.
So I do a five minute pickup.
And I don’t even do that ideally. Ideally, I would organically set the timer at the same time every evening and my family members would organically arise from their various chairs and tables and pick up the day’s assortment of out-of-place items. While smiling. Unforced, organic smiles.
Instead, I make a loud announcement whenever I happen to think of doing a five minute pickup. I am met with groans and/or heavy sighs every single time. I yell from the kitchen, “OK. I’m about to push start on the oven timer. Is everyone, I mean EVERYone … on their feet??!?”
I could moan about how this shouldn’t be so hard. How it shouldn’t feel so unnatural. How we should all see what needs to be done and just do it without having to be reminded or held accountable.
That would be easier, right? In an ideal world.

But I don’t live in an ideal world. And inwardly (or outwardly) groaning about doing the dishes again makes my house look and function a whole lot better than wishing I would have done it immediately and hoping tomorrow this will all function more organically.
Finally, after nine-hundred-and-something words, I looked up the word “organic” and honestly … I’m more confused now.
But that kind of proves my point. In all of these contexts (marketing, cleaning, farming) it can be a bit of an ambiguous term.
Ambiguous terms don’t help me much in my home. Doing my dishes no matter how unnatural it feels, does.
 
P.S. Since this might make someone who is new around here wonder, I always say clearly when a company has paid me to talk about their product, and I say no to A LOT products. I only accept sponsored work for products I love or have honestly wondered about, and assume y’all might have wondered about, too. 
P.P.S I’ve written books about how I do what needs to be done even though it doesn’t happen organically for me. How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind teaches you what to do when your home organically becomes a total disaster, again and again, and you can’t figure out why. Decluttering at the Speed of Life teaches you my step by step process to declutter the surfaces, drawers, rooms and closets that organically fill with random junk. 
P.P.P.S I wrote this post in about two-and-a-half hours (if you listened to podcast 187, you know that’s a big deal) after reading the word “organically” in a non-cleaning-related email from Jon Acuff this morning. If you’re a writer or speaker, you should follow him. He’s helpful and funny. 

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“We want this to happen organically.”
Organically is a word of this millennium. I know it existed pre-2000, but its meaning has enhanced over the past 20 years.
Without actually looking up its definition, I think that when used in reference to food, it’s supposed to mean the food has been grown without unnatural help. Without being manipulated into getting bigger or juicier any faster than it could on its own.
Really, it’s how things should be, right?
Naturally occurring. Unforced.
But I was baffled the first time a company approached me about talking about their products and used that word.
They weren’t talking about the ingredients in their product. They were talking about how I would talk about those products.
This was probably 2010, and I was new to the blogging world, but I knew enough to say: Will I be compensated?
And they went back to that word. “We really want it to be organic.”
In a la la way, they were being ambiguous and making their way sound ideal. Authentic. Without anything being forced or manipulated.
But because the question was “Money?” and the answer was “Organic!” I realized that what they were actually saying was: We want you to work for free and we’re going to use the word organic to make it sound like you getting paid (like we are) … would be a bad thing. As bad as a radioactive tomato.
Which is fine. I can respect their efforts and desires. And of COURSE it’s best when someone raves about their product without prompting or manipulation.
But the thing about something happening organically is that there’s no guarantee it’s going to happen.
So many times, I wished that cleaning would happen organically in my home. I don’t even mean the products I used. I mean the way it would happen.
Naturally.
Unforced.
Unmanipulated.
Throughout my day, as I went.
And so I would wait. I waited for inspiration to hit. For the perfect intersection of energy and available time.
I waited for “organic” to happen.
But just like I might or might not talk about a product when I’m waiting for the thought to occur at the same time as I have nothing else more urgent or exciting to talk about, I might or might not clean my toilet when I’m waiting for it to happen organically.
It’s not a company’s ideal to have to pay someone to guarantee they’ll make room in their busy schedule and on their highly trafficked cleaning blog to mention their product.
It’s not my ideal to have to assign bathroom cleaning to Tuesdays to guarantee(ish) the bathrooms will actually get cleaned.
I find myself saying (and I’m sure they’ve found themselves saying): It shouldn’t have to be this way.
Except that I want my bathrooms cleaned. And they want their products in front of the eyeballs of people on the internet.
And if we’re all determined to not force anything and keep everything ideal, toilets get dirtier and harder to clean and someone else’s dish scrubber gets bragged about while ours waits around to be noticed.
Here’s my point: If I wait for things to happen organically, I may be waiting a very long time. If I want something done, I have to accept the reality of my situation and my brain and manipulate accordingly.
Not that there can’t be a mixing of organic with manipulation with the goal of an ideal compromise.
Organic farmers don’t just walk around their fields looking for whatever has popped up to take to market.
They work hard to make the things they want to happen … happen. I’m no expert, but I know they do. They research which plants or other un-manipulated stuff keeps bugs away. They find those things and use those things.
And I’m sure they talk to other organic farmers to continue learning all the time.
I have to put routines and non-negotiable tasks into place to make sure things happen.
No matter how many times I tell myself I should take every dish straight to the dishwasher the moment it’s dirty, I don’t. No matter how many times I lecture myself about the need to put something away as soon as I’m done using it, things leap from my hand to the nearest flat surface without my brain registering what’s happening. Or not happening.
So I do a five minute pickup.
And I don’t even do that ideally. Ideally, I would organically set the timer at the same time every evening and my family members would organically arise from their various chairs and tables and pick up the day’s assortment of out-of-place items. While smiling. Unforced, organic smiles.
Instead, I make a loud announcement whenever I happen to think of doing a five minute pickup. I am met with groans and/or heavy sighs every single time. I yell from the kitchen, “OK. I’m about to push start on the oven timer. Is everyone, I mean EVERYone … on their feet??!?”
I could moan about how this shouldn’t be so hard. How it shouldn’t feel so unnatural. How we should all see what needs to be done and just do it without having to be reminded or held accountable.
That would be easier, right? In an ideal world.

But I don’t live in an ideal world. And inwardly (or outwardly) groaning about doing the dishes again makes my house look and function a whole lot better than wishing I would have done it immediately and hoping tomorrow this will all function more organically.
Finally, after nine-hundred-and-something words, I looked up the word “organic” and honestly … I’m more confused now.
But that kind of proves my point. In all of these contexts (marketing, cleaning, farming) it can be a bit of an ambiguous term.
Ambiguous terms don’t help me much in my home. Doing my dishes no matter how unnatural it feels, does.
 
P.S. Since this might make someone who is new around here wonder, I always say clearly when a company has paid me to talk about their product, and I say no to A LOT products. I only accept sponsored work for products I love or have honestly wondered about, and assume y’all might have wondered about, too. 
P.P.S I’ve written books about how I do what needs to be done even though it doesn’t happen organically for me. How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind teaches you what to do when your home organically becomes a total disaster, again and again, and you can’t figure out why. Decluttering at the Speed of Life teaches you my step by step process to declutter the surfaces, drawers, rooms and closets that organically fill with random junk. 
P.P.P.S I wrote this post in about two-and-a-half hours (if you listened to podcast 187, you know that’s a big deal) after reading the word “organically” in a non-cleaning-related email from Jon Acuff this morning. If you’re a writer or speaker, you should follow him. He’s helpful and funny. 

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“We want this to happen organically.”
Organically is a word of this millennium. I know it existed pre-2000, but its meaning has enhanced over the past 20 years.
Without actually looking up its definition, I think that when used in reference to food, it’s supposed to mean the food has been grown without unnatural help. Without being manipulated into getting bigger or juicier any faster than it could on its own.
Really, it’s how things should be, right?
Naturally occurring. Unforced.
But I was baffled the first time a company approached me about talking about their products and used that word.
They weren’t talking about the ingredients in their product. They were talking about how I would talk about those products.
This was probably 2010, and I was new to the blogging world, but I knew enough to say: Will I be compensated?
And they went back to that word. “We really want it to be organic.”
In a la la way, they were being ambiguous and making their way sound ideal. Authentic. Without anything being forced or manipulated.
But because the question was “Money?” and the answer was “Organic!” I realized that what they were actually saying was: We want you to work for free and we’re going to use the word organic to make it sound like you getting paid (like we are) … would be a bad thing. As bad as a radioactive tomato.
Which is fine. I can respect their efforts and desires. And of COURSE it’s best when someone raves about their product without prompting or manipulation.
But the thing about something happening organically is that there’s no guarantee it’s going to happen.
So many times, I wished that cleaning would happen organically in my home. I don’t even mean the products I used. I mean the way it would happen.
Naturally.
Unforced.
Unmanipulated.
Throughout my day, as I went.
And so I would wait. I waited for inspiration to hit. For the perfect intersection of energy and available time.
I waited for “organic” to happen.
But just like I might or might not talk about a product when I’m waiting for the thought to occur at the same time as I have nothing else more urgent or exciting to talk about, I might or might not clean my toilet when I’m waiting for it to happen organically.
It’s not a company’s ideal to have to pay someone to guarantee they’ll make room in their busy schedule and on their highly trafficked cleaning blog to mention their product.
It’s not my ideal to have to assign bathroom cleaning to Tuesdays to guarantee(ish) the bathrooms will actually get cleaned.
I find myself saying (and I’m sure they’ve found themselves saying): It shouldn’t have to be this way.
Except that I want my bathrooms cleaned. And they want their products in front of the eyeballs of people on the internet.
And if we’re all determined to not force anything and keep everything ideal, toilets get dirtier and harder to clean and someone else’s dish scrubber gets bragged about while ours waits around to be noticed.
Here’s my point: If I wait for things to happen organically, I may be waiting a very long time. If I want something done, I have to accept the reality of my situation and my brain and manipulate accordingly.
Not that there can’t be a mixing of organic with manipulation with the goal of an ideal compromise.
Organic farmers don’t just walk around their fields looking for whatever has popped up to take to market.
They work hard to make the things they want to happen … happen. I’m no expert, but I know they do. They research which plants or other un-manipulated stuff keeps bugs away. They find those things and use those things.
And I’m sure they talk to other organic farmers to continue learning all the time.
I have to put routines and non-negotiable tasks into place to make sure things happen.
No matter how many times I tell myself I should take every dish straight to the dishwasher the moment it’s dirty, I don’t. No matter how many times I lecture myself about the need to put something away as soon as I’m done using it, things leap from my hand to the nearest flat surface without my brain registering what’s happening. Or not happening.
So I do a five minute pickup.
And I don’t even do that ideally. Ideally, I would organically set the timer at the same time every evening and my family members would organically arise from their various chairs and tables and pick up the day’s assortment of out-of-place items. While smiling. Unforced, organic smiles.
Instead, I make a loud announcement whenever I happen to think of doing a five minute pickup. I am met with groans and/or heavy sighs every single time. I yell from the kitchen, “OK. I’m about to push start on the oven timer. Is everyone, I mean EVERYone … on their feet??!?”
I could moan about how this shouldn’t be so hard. How it shouldn’t feel so unnatural. How we should all see what needs to be done and just do it without having to be reminded or held accountable.
That would be easier, right? In an ideal world.

But I don’t live in an ideal world. And inwardly (or outwardly) groaning about doing the dishes again makes my house look and function a whole lot better than wishing I would have done it immediately and hoping tomorrow this will all function more organically.
Finally, after nine-hundred-and-something words, I looked up the word “organic” and honestly … I’m more confused now.
But that kind of proves my point. In all of these contexts (marketing, cleaning, farming) it can be a bit of an ambiguous term.
Ambiguous terms don’t help me much in my home. Doing my dishes no matter how unnatural it feels, does.
 
P.S. Since this might make someone who is new around here wonder, I always say clearly when a company has paid me to talk about their product, and I say no to A LOT products. I only accept sponsored work for products I love or have honestly wondered about, and assume y’all might have wondered about, too. 
P.P.S I’ve written books about how I do what needs to be done even though it doesn’t happen organically for me. How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind teaches you what to do when your home organically becomes a total disaster, again and again, and you can’t figure out why. Decluttering at the Speed of Life teaches you my step by step process to declutter the surfaces, drawers, rooms and closets that organically fill with random junk. 
P.P.P.S I wrote this post in about two-and-a-half hours (if you listened to podcast 187, you know that’s a big deal) after reading the word “organically” in a non-cleaning-related email from Jon Acuff this morning. If you’re a writer or speaker, you should follow him. He’s helpful and funny. 

–Nony

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