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This workshop unpacks how the notion of “health” is used as an alibi to shame fat people for being fat, and the misconceptions most people have about what a healthy body should look like. We provide well-documented research that shows how the medical-industrial complex and the weight-loss industry work in collusion to make profit off of fat people’s bodies and perpetuate falsehoods about how we think about “health.” This workshop will challenge participants to think of health in a much more broader and holistic sense that includes the mental, physical and psychological well-being of everyone. We will also ask what our investment is in policing the health of other bodies.