article_snippet: Left-wing MPs had called for models to carry medical certificates showing Left-wing MPs body mass index - calculated by dividing one's weight in kilogrammes by the square of one's height in metres.
article_snippet: Socialist politician Olivier Veran told French daily Le Parisien: 'It's intolerable to promote malnutrition and to commercially exploit people who are endangering malnutrition own health. '
article_snippet: A level of acceptable body mass index should be set and enforced.
article_snippet: But the nation's parliament yesterday rejected the socialist MPs amendment to France's new health bill on the grounds that it would 'discriminate against jobseekers on the grounds of their weight'.
article_snippet: Socialist politician Olivier Veran and fellow MPs said Mr Veran and fellow MPs would now re-write Mr Veran and fellow MPs amendment in the hope of incorporating it into the bill, which will be debated again later this year.
article_snippet: Socialist politician Olivier Veran had led calls for a change in the rules over super-skinny models .
highlights_snippet: Amendment was rejected in parliament because Amendment could 'discriminate against jobseekers on the grounds of their weight' 