“If you want to avoid butter, use cream!”

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Nutrition Group Honors Child--French Chef Advised “If you want

to avoid butter, use cream!”

Washington DC, August 4, 2009-- Child was leery of nutritionists,

but the Weston A. Price Foundation is one nutrition group that speaks

her language. “ once said that if you want to avoid butter, use

cream,” says Sally Fallon, president of the Weston A. Price

Foundation, a non-profit, educational institution based in Washington,

DC. “That kind of talk earned her the nickname 'The Cholesterol Queen'

but the truth is that the science supports the health benefits of

great tasting, high fat foods that she loved.”

The film and starring Meryl Streep as Child, opens August

7, and is expected to inspire a new generation to take up French

cooking. Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking is

already moving up on the bestseller charts, a phenomenon that could

lead Americans not only to revalue real food, whole foods and slow

foods, but the butter and cream that makes such foods utterly

delicious. “She was a passionate woman who regarded good food as one

of life's great pleasures,” says nutritionist Kaayla T. , PhD,

CCN, “She was wickedly intelligent, deeply sensual and once described

her first meal in France as “an opening of soul and spirit.”

Child never understood the lowfat, cholesterol-phobic prescriptions of

dietitians, nutritionists and other members of the “food police.”

Although her biggest concern was the death of gastronomy, she

instinctively grasped the health implications as well. Indeed, she

once told n Burros of the New York Times, “If we ate the way

nutritionists want us to eat, our hair would be falling out, our teeth

would be falling out and our skin would be drying up.”

“Sadly, she was right,” says Fallon. “America is experiencing an

epidemic of health problems stemming from politically correct

malnutrition. In his 1948 book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration,,

Dr. Price reported on his travels around the world to places where

people were living free from the dietary changes of modern

civilization. He didn't find French cooking but he proved beyond a

doubt that people with perfect teeth and optimal physical and mental

health ate diets rich in animal fats and cholesterol.”

'”Dr. Price's last words were 'You teach, you teach, you teach,'” adds

Fallon. “Through her books and more than 300 television shows,

Child showed she had a deep desire to teach and to do it very, very

well. She demystified French cuisine with clarity, common sense and

good humor. "

“I like to joke that all that butter and cream finally caught up with

her, causing her death at nearly 92.,” concludes Dr . “But the

truth is all that butter and cream helped her live a long, rich and

juicy life.”

The Weston A. Price Foundation is a 501C3 nutrition education

foundation with the mission of disseminating accurate, science-based

information on diet and health. Named after nutrition pioneer Weston

A. Price, DDS, author of Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, the

Washington, DC-based Foundation publishes a quarterly journal for its

10,500 members, supports 400 local chapters worldwide and hosts a

yearly conference. The Foundation headquarters' phone number is (202)

363-4394. Find them online atwww.westonaprice.org or email info@...

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http://www.westonaprice.org/press/press-05AUG09.html