The heath factor about eating at home

Busy life, high demand at work, meetings, family time, house work, all seem like endless tasks that keep piling up on our to do lists. People these days are just too busy to worry about food. Research shows that the majority of Americans depend on restaurants for lunch and a few eat every day with their families at home. The tendency of Americans eating out keeps increasing every year. Here is where the problem is. Most people think that restaurants, fast food in particular, are very unhealthy and they are right. However, they also believe that eating at sit down restaurants is a healthier choice and that's just not true.  Restaurant food these days have great amounts of sodium and are very high in calories.

Here are a few examples for some popular restaurants. Keep in mind that the healthy amount of sodium per day is 2300 mg and people should eat around 2,000 to 2,500 calories per day :

 

PF Changs:

Mongolian Beef: 2700 mg of Sodium, 720 Calories

Pad Thai Chicken 3720 mg of Sodium, 1160 Calories

Lemon Grass Chicken Salad: 780 mg of Sodium, 590 Calories

 

Season’s 52:

Alaskan Salmon: 1130 mg of Sodium, 470 Calories

Scallops:1870 mg of Sodium, 470 Calories

 

Even a place like Season's 52, which is known for low calorie food, have large amounts of sodium in their food. Eating out, most of the time, is eating unhealthy. That’s a fact and it’s ok to treat ourselves with some of these foods once in a while, but eating them on a Monday through Friday basis may just kill you sooner than you think.
 

Eating at home is the best (and arguably only practical) option to keep healthy. You control what you buy and you control what you eat. What if you, like most people, just don’t have the time? Then we're here to help.  Atlanta Personal Chef Service is here to help you maintain your health by cooking healthy delicious meals. Give us a try. We will do the grocery shopping for you, cook, clean and even serve the food if you'd like.  We've been cooking for families for over three years. We have the experience. We cook daily meals for families in Buckhead, Dunwoody, Sandy Springs, Marietta, Atlanta, Decatur, and other cities surrounding the Atlanta area. We do weekly meals chef service, dinner parties, cooking lessons, brunches, breakfast, cocktail parties and more. Find out more about us by visiting our website.