enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Thinner (film) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinner_(film)

    In the film, an obese lawyer who accidentally kills a Romani woman is cursed by the woman's father to rapidly lose weight. Thinner was released in the United States on October 25, 1996, by Paramount Pictures. It received mostly negative reviews and grossed $15.3 million against a budget of $8 million.

  3. Threat - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threat

    Threatening or threatening behavior (or criminal threatening behavior) is the crime of intentionally or knowingly putting another person in fear of bodily injury. [ 3 ] Some of the more common types of threats forbidden by law are those made with an intent to obtain a monetary advantage or to compel a person to act against their will .

  4. Childhood obesity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_obesity

    The two types of procedures have shown a 26% weight loss from baseline at five years with an 86% remission rate in diabetes and 68% hypertension remission rate. [6] Of those adolescents who lost weight after bariatric surgery, 60% maintained at least a 20% weight loss at five-year follow-up and 8% had regained most of the pre-surgical weight. [6]

  5. Strike action - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_action

    The number of major strikes and lockouts in the U.S. fell by 97% from 381 in 1970 to 187 in 1980 to only 11 in 2010. Companies countered the threat of a strike by threatening to close or move a plant. [24] [25] The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, adopted in 1967, ensures the right to strike in Article 8.

  6. The psychology of food aversions: Why some people don't grow ...

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/psychology-food-aversions...

    It's normal to have foods you love and ones you aren't as into, but food aversions take it to another level. There are certain foods some people just won't touch — and that can stay with them ...

  7. Psychological trauma - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_trauma

    Psychological trauma (also known as mental trauma, psychiatric trauma, emotional damage, or psychotrauma) is an emotional response caused by severe distressing events, such as bodily injury, sexual violence, or other threats to the life of the subject or their loved ones; indirect exposure, such as from watching television news, may be extremely distressing and can produce an involuntary and ...

  8. Death threat - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_threat

    A threatening note that was left in the mailbox of Holyoke, Massachusetts Mayor Edwin A. Seibel in 1955.. A death threat is a threat, often made anonymously, by one person or a group of people to kill another person or group of people.

  9. Emetophobia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emetophobia

    The thought of someone possibly vomiting can cause the phobic person to engage in extreme behaviors to escape from their anxiety triggers, e.g. going to great lengths to avoid situations that could be perceived as "threatening". Emetophobia is clinically considered an "elusive predicament" because limited research has been done pertaining to it ...