Three Simple steps to Keep/Maintain a Healthy Brain

The brain is the most important organ of the human body and of all animals as well. In fact, the brain is so important that Doctors only declare when someone is dead when their brains are no longer working or considered “dead.” The brain is the pilot. It’s where all commands takes place. A person can live with an arm or a leg, but no one can live without a brain. Being the most important of all human organs, it would be wise to treat the brain with such importance.

Atlanta Personal Chef Service is here once again to teach you simple steps, so that you can maintain a healthy brain now as we age.

1. Exercise: Exercise should be of no surprise. Every study about maintaining a great heath, exercising is always one the most important things anyone can do. According to Laura Baker (Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-geriatrics at the Wake Forest University of Medicine in North Caroline), “Most studies find a lower risk of dementia over time for people who exercise or are lifelong exercisers versus those who don’t. If you are sedentary, blood doesn’t get to the far reaches of those small vessels. These are the areas that support the kind of executive function that’s vulnerable to aging.” What is great about exercising is that it improves your heath in many levels, including stress, blood flow, cholesterol and many more.

2. Keep an eye on your blood pressure. People that have high blood pressure have higher risk of having strokes (when the blood supply gets cut off, thus affecting the levels of oxygen that reaches your brain, which causes brain tissue to die). A few ways to lower the blood pressure is by exercising, maintaining healthy diet and medication if necessary.

3. Use your brains: Many studies have shown that there is lower risk of Alzheimer’s symptoms and dementia in people that have higher education, read books, work on professional occupations, and are involved with activities that stimulate the brain (puzzles, playing games, attend classes).

Other steps that it’s proven to help, but researchers are not 100% yet: Sleep, eating fish, drinking coffee, berries, and Vitamin D.

Atlanta Personal Chef Service is to help you maintain healthy diet, while eating tasty foods. Everyday our private chefs are cooking meals around Atlanta, Buckhead, Marietta, Sandy Springs, Dunwoody, Vinnings, and Roswell. We keep up with the latest in heath and always informing our clients. Try us out and I’m sure you will not regret it. Contact us!

Working As Personal Chef VS Working At A Restaurant

In a typical restaurant experience, a chef might emphasize bringing a different culture to the area, or some art form of flavor and aromas they might be trying to weave onto your dinner plate, but at the core of our business we are ultimately trying to serve dinner, and offer our clients a pleasant experience.  A typical restaurant has a team of professionals to work on the former, but rarely do we emphasize the latter, and when operating out of a client’s home, it is the execution of this facet of the job that really stands out.

Chef’s typically stop their art at the edge of their plate, sometimes venturing into the dinner table, or the space between courses, but our art form must extend to fill our client’s living space.  My commercial experience has given me habits of simply emptying a space.  I know that my focus will have to shift to beautifying what is left as well.  Rarely have I ever given thought to how to make the reheating of food seem inviting.

Working for Atlanta Personal chef Service it’s been great and I very much enjoy. In certain ways, the job is extremely simple.  Cooking for one family over the course of a few hours seems like light work for someone who is accustomed to the hustle of a busy dinner shift.  However, it requires the average restaurant worker to think differently, and that request is probably the most difficult thing someone can be asked to do.

At a restaurant, the demanding storm of tickets in a restaurant provides an easy access to stress relief.  Being knee deep in tickets is a daily occurrence, and tackling such a problem is a simple one - head down, focus, work hard, and work fast.  The task is very easy to accomplish, and the panic can easily be overcome.  Simply push that energy into your work, give it more effort, speed, gusto, and your coworkers look upon you with approval.  Honestly, adversity isn’t so scary when you can simply decide to work harder, in order to be more effective.

The job of a private chef is much different.  The difficulties don’t require effort; they require focus, and precision.  Developing those qualities isn't something that is learned on the fly, nor will you be inspired to because of an insurmountable list of tasks.  Our tasks aren't mountains, but many piles of dust.  Qualities like focus and precision simply need to be attained through dedicated practice.

The jobs are similar in some ways, but the two feel very different.  A good comparison might be a car mechanic, and watchmaker.

Our job comes down to getting all the little things right, and it simply has more delicate parts than a standard restaurant.  We walk the odd line of guest, friend, and employee.  Our line of work has no room for discourtesy, or ego.  The job is its own art, one of compassion, empathy, and of course, food.