Some excellent stuff in here. The first 25% is just trying to convince you that dieting is bad and fatness is neutral, and you can get that perspective in many other places. Where this book shines I think is in the how-to's. Lots of sample scripts for talking to thin kids and fat kids alike about anti-fat bias, as well as other people in kids' lives, like grandparents, coaches, teachers, and friends. Huge resource section in the back.

The one thing I thought was missing was more engagement with capitalism (I mean, of course I thought that, I'm a Marxist sociologist, but still). There's a chapter on social media that's great, and emphasizes building kids' media literacy, which is essential, but also leaves out much discussion of how platforms profit from our attention. Also, I'm sympathetic to the effort to not demonize any foods, and I was relieved to read that there isn't actually any conclusive research on sugar being addictive, but thanks to the capitalist growth imperative, it IS in more and more foods, and there IS incentive to create and sell more and more processed foods, because that's where the profit is at. I'm still struggling with this piece. I certainly don't want to condemn anyone for relying on convenience foods when we're all just trying to get by, but I really want a discussion of the growth of processed foods that doesn't jump straight to fatphobic, classist, ableist, etc. rhetoric.