There were interesting ideas in here, and I also found it pretty frustrating when Sole-Smith would take something complex (for example, parents' worry about their children's relationship to sugar) and dismiss all reasons that might contribute to it other than fatphobia. I could just imagine her writing a book about anything else and managing to distill the same complex concept into being so obviously about only this one other thing.

She also had a tendency to ascribe feelings to her interviewees that they may or may not have been having, and it's manipulative to the adults and children interviewed. "[Kid] doesn't say it, but I can tell she's upset with how her parents handled that, in this very specific way that aligns with my narrative" is the sort of thing that happens in this book with irritating frequency.

The book was definitely also missing content about food marketing and teaching children to be critical of how foods are presented for kids, outside of her complaints about anyone ever talking about the health-related content of food. What if we didn't just have to save critical thinking for conversations about fitness influencers on social media, but could also talk about cartoon characters being featured on bars and crackers?