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"You&amp;#x27;ve heard of discrimination against overweight people, but what about discrimination against thin gals? A gym in Canada bans &amp;quot;skinny&amp;quot; women from their gym... Slim and svelte? Then you may be banned from Canada&amp;#x27;s new gym Body Exchange, which business model focuses primarily on obese people. In fact, they say that thin people &amp;quot;bring down morale.&amp;quot; Founder and CEO Louise Green told TheProvince.com that the gym is a &amp;amp;#8221;safe haven&amp;amp;#8221; for overweight people who may be intimidated to work out in the presence of those who are fit. &amp;quot;Many of our clients have not had successful fitness pasts so I can see the anxiety before we get started and I can see the relief and happiness after we finish,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;People are often too fearful to become active. There wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t a model that offered camaraderie. I used to walk into fitness classes where nobody would even say &amp;amp;#8216;Hi.&amp;amp;#8217; This has got to be fun or it&amp;amp;#8217;s not going to work.&amp;quot; And, Body Exchange client Lisa Schaffer said she loves that there aren&amp;#x27;t &amp;amp;#8220;tiny little Lululemon people running around&amp;quot; the gym. What do you think? P.S. We love Jennifer Garner&amp;#x27;s healthy body image! And, this fitness trainers crazy stunt--gaining 75 pounds to show the world how to lose it! Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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