I'm pretty sad to give this book a low rating. While I think many of Sole-Smith's ideas around challenging fatphobia and caring for kids in larger bodies are notable and worthy of credit, her cherry-picked science and questionable statements throughout the book ruined its credibility for me. I appreciated her thoughts on reasonable diet models for kids and her notes that each kid will require different considerations (e.g. kids with eating disorders cannot be given as much food flexibility, kids with ARFID may have to snack more, etc). However, I was unimpressed by statements such as "these studies show correlation, not causation" that are followed up with more studies that show correlation and not causation but are presented as fact (since, presumably, they support the author's POV). I'm open to a debunking of current scientific consensus; however, it must be done logically and systematically, not by throwing anecdotes and wishes at well-substantiated evidence. For example, Sole-Smith states that nothing in parenting styles has changed so dramatically since the 1970s to reflect the 3x increase in kids that meet obesity standards - yet Sole-Smith dismisses ideas about hyper-palatable foods out of hand and does not pursue them further. In my mind, quite a bit has changed in parenting since the 1970s (new diets? but most importantly, new tech, and perhaps a corresponding loss in activity?). In another section, Sole-Smith uses an interview with a doctor to substantiate her claim that children with higher BMIs can demonstrate fewer issues upon lab analysis than kids with lower BMIs. There are so many issues with this - this is an anecdote told by a singular doctor, with no named patients (could be entirely fake)! It isn't even a case study, much less a double-blind peer-reviewed study. Also, this is common sense - if you cherry pick a healthy kid with a higher BMI and an unhealthy kid with a lower BMI, this can always be true. It's statistical analysis that matters in this case. So many other problems like this crop up throughout the book - Sole-Smith talks about how body weight "isn't controllable" but offers no evidence to support this claim and discusses how a study "only document[ing] correlations and not causations" somehow therefore creates the idea that "remov[ing] 'obesity prevention' as a goal for family meals... could mean that more kids would experience meals... [that were] warm, supportive, and full of positive reinforcement." Etc, etc. While I agree that a radical shift surrounding weight and health needs to occur, and that fatphobia should ALWAYS and CONTINUALLY be countered, especially to ensure that fat people receive appropriate medical care, this book felt like it was written to reflect Sole-Smith's desired reality rather than striving to counter fatphobia and disinfo about fat people in the real world.