Nutrition Group Honors Julia Child

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

Washington DC, August 4, 2009–Julia Child was leery of nutritionists, but the Weston A. Price Foundation is one nutrition group that speaks her language. “Julia 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 Julie and Julia 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. Daniel, 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 Marian 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, Julia 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 Daniel. “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 at www.westonaprice.org or email info@westonaprice.org.

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