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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bad advice to have high fat ice cream for one and low fat food for the other one. A lot of kids are really thin.   My mother always told the doctor she was worried about our toothpick arms and legs and overall lack of weight.  Doctor told her that kids won’t starve themselves, don’t worry.   None of us had any eating disorders growing up.

We all know kids who are super skinny and they grow up to skinny adults. There’s no reason to fatten her up.   Same with overweight kids unless they can get proportions of food way down.

My daughter friend is obese and has always been, same with her mother.   They eat very large portions, I mean huge.   If they could only cut those portions to 1/3 of their current portions they would lose about 2-3 pounds a week.   [/quote]

OP here.  The goal  isn't "fattening up" older DD.  Older DD's lack of food intake is impairing her growth, so food is helping her have enough nutrients to reach a proper height.  Right now she is 0.1% in weight and 1% in height, and hasn't grown much in height in 3-4 years.  And unfortunately DH's two siblings as adults are now overweight; DH works very hard to exercise and eat healthfully like normal adults; whatever this is doesn't just let them be skinny adults, at least not throughout their lives. But I appreciate the challenge and I also feel like it's an impossible situation sometimes.[/quote]

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