Autism Parenting Secrets Your Child Needs FATS Most of All
Welcome to Episode 134 of the Autism Parenting Secrets.
Sally Fallon Morell is our special guest this week and we’re talking about nourishing food.
Sally is the founding president of The Weston A. Price Foundation, a non-profit nutrition education foundation dedicated to returning nutrient-dense food to American tables.
She’s also the editor of the Foundation’s quarterly journal that is distributed to the Foundation’s thirteen thousand members and over three hundred local chapters worldwide.
She’s perhaps best known for her best-selling cookbook, Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats.
Sally’s work is widely respected for providing accurate and understandable explanations of complicated subjects in the field of nutrition and health.
She’s authored many books, articles, and publications on a wide variety of topics including the benefits of animal fats, bone broth, and raw milk and the dangers of GMOs, soy, corn, and chemicals/pesticides/and hormones in and on food.
Sally and her organization are changing the conversation about what constitutes a healthy diet and challenges the legitimacy of the low-fat, low-cholesterol paradigm.
She’s the mother of four and has four grandchildren, all brought up according to Nourishing Traditions principles.
Today, we’re focusing on the importance of animal fats in the diet.
It’s important for everyone but especially for kids on the spectrum…
The secret this week is…
Your Child Needs FATS Most of All
You'll Discover:
- The Relatively New Food That Wreaks Havoc (4:26)
- Why Cholesterol Is NOT The Enemy (6:47)
- How To Get Refined Vegetable Oils OUT Of The Diet (8:47)
- The #1 Thing To Do Today (12:02)
- The Surprising Benefits of Raw Dairy (14:33)
- Who Was Weston A. Price And Why His Discoveries Matter Even More Today (23:38)
- The Case for Eating Liver (26:12)
- Why Cooking For Your Child Is Makes Things Easier (30:26)
- Why Malnourishment (36:42)
- How To Please a Picky Eater (39:25)
About Our Guest
Sally Fallon Morell is founding president of The Weston A. Price Foundation (westonaprice.org), a non-profit nutrition education foundation dedicated to returning nutrient-dense food to American tables, and editor of the Foundation’s quarterly journal. She is also the founder of A Campaign for Real Milk (realmilk.com), which has as its goal universal access to clean raw milk from pasture-fed animals. She has extensive experience in the testing and production of unpasteurized milk and milk products.
She is the author of the best-selling cookbook Nourishing Traditions (with Mary G. Enig, Ph.D.); The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care (with Thomas S. Cowan, MD); Nourishing Broth (with Kaayla T. Daniel, Ph.D., CCN); Nourishing Fats; and Nourishing Diets. Her latest book is The Contagion Myth, co-authored with Thomas S Cowan, MD.
She and her husband Geoffrey Morell are owners of P A Bowen Farmstead (pabowenfarmstead.com) in Southern Maryland, which produces raw cheese and milk from pastured cows, pastured meats, and grass-fed poultry and eggs.
The Weston A Price Foundation
www.westonaprice.org/
Nourishing Traditions (Sally’s Blog)
www.nourishingtraditions.com
References in This Episode:
- Real Milk
www.realmilk.com/ - Dr. Mary Megson
http://megson.com/ - The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care by Sally Fallon Morell
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