It's time to have the 'Fat Talk' with our kids — and ourselves
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How Anti-Fatness Hurts Thin Children
I think it's a bit about how anti-fat bias hurts fat children for many reasons in your book. But you also point out that it harms thin children as well who internalize those lessons about what it means to be fat. I was a thin child and it's a specific experience. My two is even thin kids who are going to be thin adults, you know, my husband was a thin kid. He's a, he's just going to bethin his whole life. It is what it is. And so the reason it's so important to talk to thin kids about these issues is number one, they're not all going to being thin adults. Bodies change and this
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