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I've read through this entire thread now and it ties in very nicely with "Rethinking Thin" that I just finished. As so many have pointed out: at first it's disappointing to find proof that it WILL be harder to maintain the new weight but it's also a comfort to know that the problems are real and not just something in our heads.
And in knowing all this new information I feel more equipped to deal with maintaining my goal weight, because forewarned is forearmed.
Thank you for an inredibly valuable thread, you are a star Meg!
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Back to the equation
Stored Body Fat = Food Intake – Energy Expenditure
- the energy expenditure (I'm going to abbreviate it as EE) part is made up of three parts: resting energy expenditure, non-resting EE, and thermic (the digestion of food). Resting EE accounts for about 50 – 60% of the calories we burn in a day, thermic accounts for about 5%, and non-resting EE makes up the remainder.
Here's the deal - it takes 50 calories per kg of LBM to maintain the body weight of either a normal or an obese person. BUT … it takes only 42 calories per kg of LBM to maintain the weight of a reduced obese person.
Now we know that it's a FACT and we know why – our non-resting EE slows down by 15 – 20%.
I know this thread hasn't had any replies for quite some time - and I'm a newbie - but as a mathemetician, I'd like to point out a contradiction here :
If all of the new 'efficiencies' (15%) in the reduced-obese come from the NON-resting EE and the non-resting EE makes up about 40% of the total (5% thermic, 55% resting EE) - then the actual caloric difference would be about 6% (15% of 40%) not 15% total. Of course the 42 cals versus 50 cals per kg of LBM says differently, so I would be a bit curious as to which is actually correct.
I would BET that the 6% figure is correct, otherwise, it would mean that the muscles of the reduced-obese are actually about 40 PERCENT (40% of 40% = 16%) more efficient than 'normal' people and I find that number hard to swallow. That means the reduced-obese should be uber-long distance athletes as they are so much more efficient than normal people in muscle efficiency.
Anyways - just my two cents.
I also think people need to understand that as in many such scientific studies - there is probably going to be so much individual differences within the studied group that applying it to youself is problemmatic. You can see this in this forum quite well - same goal weight - very different caloric requirements to keep that final goal weight depending on the person.
I'll tell you what opened my eyes the most so far - the difference between me at 220 pounds and me at 210 pounds is about 60 calories a day - and so on down to my goal weight. I deprive myself of a slice a bread a day and I will drop almost 20 pounds over the next year or two. That is SO trivial, I know I can do that. As a maintainer, we will all get to the point where we decide how many slices of bread (or miles of walking) are worth how many extra pounds. The science is interesting and motivational, but I'm not convinced it is RELEVANT to all (or even most) of us.
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This was a very informative post, and it gives me something to think about when I get to maintanence. No wonder why I lose weight so slow
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This thread was very interesting and encouraging. I'm sure, like anything else, this information will not apply to everyone, but for those that it does apply to, it's so helpful. I never officially reached the obesity category; I sat at the high end of overweight. Regardless of that, I relate to the information shared. Maybe that has more to do with losing more than 10% of my body weight, as someone else mentioned as a marker. All I know is that with my weight loss, it's still easy for me to gain and harder to lose/maintain.
Having said that, I will say that when I did maintain my loss for that first year, it was both easy and hard. It was easy to maintain as long as I continued eating relatively the same as I had while losing. It was hard in the sense that I had to continue eating the same as I had while losing. I'm like others here who have mentioned the need to stay in a tight calorie range, and if even slightly above that range for a day or two, my weight would immediately start going up. Being armed with this information, I feel like I will handle maintenance better this time around...once I get there again.
Honestly, regardless of the reason why this is true for some, the reality is that just knowing that something is "off" makes it easier to accept and deal with the reality of it. So, I don't really care if I know for sure what "it" is, as "it" is probably multiple factors anyhow, but it sure helps just knowing that my gut instinct is finally being backed up by scientists who are understanding more and more that there is something to all of this.
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I haven't read the whole thread yet as I have 3 sweet little interruptions happening whenever I sit down to read...so I'll just ask my question anyway...
How does the body know when you are ready to maintain? Or does it go by when the calories in vs. calories out ratio shifts? I mean, for example, I lost 90 lbs. a few years ago, but I was not anywhere near goal. However, when I became even slightly lax, I started to gain (and, by lax, I mean simply not exercising -- though calories remained at a lower level). Did my body think that I was maintaining due to shift in that ratio? Does this mean that breaks in trying to lose weight are counter-productive and that we need to push on until we reach goal and then only slightly modify for maintenance? Or does the body wait until it is at the right weight for itself and then start this business of slowing down the metabolism?
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Interesting sticky.
I don't know if anyone around here has the answer but I wonder if the reduced energy expenditure is gradual during the weight loss period?
Can we compensate for the reduced EE rate with a hormonal replacement - say maybe a higher thyroid prescription to raise the RMR is 60% to compensate for a lower EE?
Finally is there a cummulative effect of the loss of EE by yo-yo dieting? For example, I once reduced from 200 to 135 (hence EE is now at 42%) and then gained back and now reducing back down. I guess I am restarting with EE at 42% but will there be an additional reduction (another 15+%) in EE rate by the time I am once again a formerly obese person?
Thanks for any info or opinion in this matter.
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I know this is an old thread and hope it is okay to append it...
Like any complicated process with lots of variables (and individual differences) involved, it will take scientists a long time to really unravel all the issues here.
I'm posting as there is data from the National Weight Loss Registry that address this issue but comes to a different finding:
Wyatt, H.R., Grunwald, G. K., Segale, H.M., Klem, M. L., McGuire, M. T., Wing, R.R., & O'Hill, J. (1999). Resting energy expenditure in reduced-obese subjects in the National Weight Control Registry. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 69, No. 6, 1189-1193.
Their conclusions:
These results show that in at least some reduced-obese individuals there does not seem to be a permanent obligatory reduction in RMR beyond the expected reduction for a reduced lean mass.
Thus, like many things in life, your mileage may vary....
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Chiming in late to say that I don't think Robert was being snarky. He was questioning Dr. Leibel's findings in the time-honoured spirit of scientific debate. As a medical writer I work with scientists all the time, and they EXPECT to have their hypotheses picked apart. It shouldn't be taken personally.
I also happen to agree with much of what Robert says, and I've read other studies showing that metabolic rate DOES return to normal (normal for the lower weight) after weight loss. To me, the idea that metabolism basically reflects your body weight and composition makes more intuitive sense than the idea that your body resets its metabolism at a lower level after you've lost weight. Even less plausible to me is the notion that the body "wants" to become obese again just because it was obese in the past.
I'm always open to new information, but I continue to believe that many if not most people regain weight because they're actually consuming more calories than they think (or admit) they are. I know how easy it is for me to add up to 500 extra calories to my daily total without being fully aware of it -- things like coffee with milk and sugar, tea with honey, a glass of wine, a few spoonfuls of dip, a handful of crackers, "evening out" the margins of the leftover lasagna...
In any case, I think it's perfectly OK to disagree about facts, and to express that disagreement, as long as we're not making personal attacks.
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I also happen to agree with much of what Robert says, and I've read other studies showing that metabolic rate DOES return to normal (normal for the lower weight) after weight loss.
My own experience indicates that, eight-plus years after reaching my current weight, my metabolism is still suppressed. I have tracked my calories closely and I eat
at the level indicated by guidelines from several sources (which come up with similar numbers). I'm maintaining at the level indicated for a woman of my age, weight and height who exercises "for at least 30 minutes a day". Trouble is that I exercise intensely (both cardio and weights) for an average of 1.5 hours a day.
I have a feeling that if I only exercised for 30 minutes a day, or exercised at a more moderate level, I'd have to cut my calories a lot.
Of course, that's only my experience and it's hardly a scientific study, but it does bear out the "suppressed metabolism" theory.
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Just adding to my last post...
I thought I had posted this before, but apparently not.
blog post, Dr Arya Sharma, another obesity specialist, quotes the work of Dr Leibel.
In the comments section, someone asks whether the metabolisms of previously obese people may re-set themselves over time. Dr Sharma responds:
@M: unfortunately, the hypometabolic state appears to be for life - so no cure
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I suspect that more research will find that there's a great deal of variability between thel pre- and post- weight loss metabolisms (and in how much metabolism f unctioning is lost) based on the degree of obesity and the number of weight loss attempts the individual has made. The person who lost 50 lbs and did it in one try may have a very different post-metabolism that the person who loses 150 lbs and took thirty years of yoyo dieting to do it.
There are much older studies that have found similarly (that repeat dieters, on average, end up with much slower metabolisms than people who've lost the same amount of weight but who have a history of many previous failed weight loss attempts.
I'm only an experiment of one, (and I'm not yet one of the completely reduced-obese), but my metabolism is a much different animal than it was in the past.
For more than thirty years I have read the theory and the research supporting the theory that repeated dieting erodes metabolism. This intuitively makes sense, because when I returned to old eating habits, I didn't just regain to my old weight, I regained to a higher weight. Now it's possible that I didn't really return to old habits, I returned to eating "intuitively" and the dieting may have causes hunger increases not only (or instead of) metabolism decline.
I know "this time around" my metabolism is the lowest it's ever been (far less than a 20% decline). It's so shocking to me that I don't share the information with anyone but my doctor, my TOPS (taking off pounds sensibly) and 3FC, because I don't think anyone else will believe it:
The calorie level I'm on now (about 1800 calories, though I've recently droppped it to 1500 of relatively low-carb) is the same calorie level that I once routinely lost 5 to 8 lbs per week (and up to 11 lbs the first week).
I noticed gradual declines over the 41 years I've been dieting, but this current attempt is by far the worst.
As a young person (under 30), I couldn't blame my metabolism. I ate huge quantities of food, and I knew it. It was an appetite problem because I was always either uncomfortably hungry or I was gaining weight. To even maintain my weight I've always had to drastically curtail calories. And the pms week was the hardest. I felt as desperate as an animal caught in a trap, willing to chew it's foot off to escape.
I didn't start truly succeeding without the constant threat of relapse until I found ways to manage the hunger (rather than ignore it, like everyone in my life and in the medical community advised). Birth control and low-carb dieting are the only ways I've found to reduce the "rabid hunger" that has plagued me for as long as I can remember.
I don't know how common my experience is, but I'm still shocked by it. My experience doesn't seem plausible even to myself. When I was younger and heard older women complaining about how they couldn't lose weight on much less than I was eating (and losing on) I thought "yeah right," and imagined them "forgetting" to document what they were "reallly" eating. It was easier to believe that they were lying (at least to themselves) than to face the possibility that weight loss could be that difficult.
There's still an ingrained cultural belief that "weight loss is easy" and that those who find difficulty with weight loss have a defect of character that makes them lazy, crazy, stupid, or at the very least, careless.
The research (for thirty years) has been finding more and more proof not only that weight loss is difficult, but some of the reasons why... and yet it's all treated as "controversial" because it's assumed that the results "take the blame" off the obese or overweight person. As if blame were more important than the truth.
I don't care whether my weight is all my fault or none of my fault, I'm stuck being the only person who can be responsible for it, so I've got to do what I've got to do, but I'm more than a little tired of people telling me how "easy" it is or should be to lose weight.
I've done some incredible things in my life and all of them combined (including my bachelor's and master's degree in psychology and my work as a probation officer and substance abuse counselor and then retraining as a computer programer) were a snap compared to sustained weight loss/maintenance.
Ironically the message I've gotten since I was a kindergartener was that hunger was irrelevant and I had to learn to ignore it. I couldn't ignore it, and I thought THAT made me defective. Instead, I had to learn to see hunger (especially what I have come to call "rabid hunger" the hunger associated with pms and high carb intake) as a forbidable adversary. Hunger is my enemy and I need to have a wide range of weapons to fight it.
Hunger isn't irrelevant, and sometimes beating hunger means outsmarting it (eating high-fiber low-calorie foods with lots of bulk, avoiding the flavor and food triggers that increase hunger like very sweet foods, the sweet/salt/fat combination talked about in the book The End of Overeating...
I think one of the main reasons weight loss success statistics are so dismal, is that as a culture we don't take it seriously enough. We assume weight loss failulre is due to defects in character and lack of effort rather than the truth "this stuff is damned difficult." It's especially difficult to do alone, and there's been a culture of shame that results in few people seeking help (at least not until the problem has gotten exponentially worse).
I would love to see TOPS and similar weight loss and weight loss maintenance groups in the grade schools, and every single currently or formerly obese or overweight person in such a group and not ashamed of it.
I'd love for weight issues to stop being connsidered "dirty little secrets" (especially since they're not really secret at all).
And now I'm really getting off topic, but I do think that the best thing to happen in the field of weight loss is for the subject to be less taboo. I think the weight loss research lags behind other fields of study because of the controversy.
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Kaplods, I too think society is a big reason as to why so many fail at getting to their goal weight and then those that do often return from the experience heavier than before.
However, I wonder if the one of the reasons also has to do with the expectations of weight loss. In most people's minds weight loss seems to be a certain process: 1) Decide to lose weight, 2) Be miserable for days/weeks/months/years, 3) Look hot. I think when most people expect it to be like that that it's going to be difficult when that doesn't happen.
I think besides how hunger is viewed that society often fails to recognize that a host of mental issues can arise when one is losing weight. One's brain, for example, doesn't always recognize that they are getting smaller. While not recognizing oneself in a photo is a jarring experience, that happens to people who have also gained weight. Do they ever not recognize themselves in the mirror though? I've had that happen at numerous points during my weight loss and that is one of the weirdest experiences in my life—looking in the mirror and seeing that I was essentially living in someone else's body.
This connected with me when I read about the most recent face transplant. The team who performed it talked about treating the patient's mind as well as it would be very hard for him to accept a new face, something that wasn't "his." Without that treatment he may join those who wanted their transplanted appendages (there are cases of people who received donor hands and other body parts that wanted them gone because they did not view them as part of their body) removed.
I realized that weight loss is probably very similar in that respect, especially if one loses a substantial amount of weight. 20 pounds doesn't really change a person all that much, but lose over 100 and one looks drastically different. It can be tough mentally to accept that even if the person is extremely happy with their success.
We pour over statistics here, trying to find out what the most successful maintainers and losers have in common. I wonder if we should evaluate them mentally instead.
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We pour over statistics here, trying to find out what the most successful maintainers and losers have in common. I wonder if we should evaluate them mentally instead.
I have mixed feelings about the role of "mental" factors in weight loss. I used to believe that weight loss was almost entirely a "head game." In fact, I pursued psychology as a career choice (getting a bachelor's and master's degree in behavioral and developmental psychology respectively) BECAUSE I was hoping to figure myself out. I also saw counseling psychologists at various points in my life.
Counseling helped me a lot in other aspects of my life, but really had very little effect on my eating/weight. I just assumed my problems had to be "deeper."
When I first encountered "fat acceptance" doctrine, which argued that dieting is making people fat and progressively fatter, I wasn't ready to give up dieting, but I did decide to try birth control (out of desperation for symptoms of severe pms/pmdd. I had been avoiding bc for pms treatment since my teens because of the possibility of weight gain).
Instead of gaining weight, I found that monthly "rabid hunger" was greatly diminished.
I also eventually gave up dieting as well, and my weight stabilized.
I wondered if I had never dieted, would I have been a bit chunky but never obese?
I don't know, but I was TERRIFIED of dieting again because dieting in the past had always resulted eventually in weight gain. In a very real sense, I "dieted" my way to nearly 400 lbs.
When I incidently lost 20 lbs after treatment for sleep apnea (which my doctors told me to expect but I thought they were nuts as I'd never accidentally lost weight in my life), I wanted more, but I couldn't go back to traditional dieting.
I had to experiment to find a "not dieting" way to lose weight, and it took two years to find a way to acheive more weight loss without "trying" to lose weight.
I settled upon a very gradual method of change that focused on "not gaining" rather than on losing, and while I was at this business of not gaining, I would try to lose "just one more pound." I banished guilt and shame and focused on successes no matter how small.
Yes I had to do some mental wrangling to succeed, but so much of the difference has been physiological that I think the physiological is often overlooked.
I have fibromyalgia and any drastic change in just about any aspect of my life - whether it be the weather, pollen levels my sleep, emotional state, activity level, exposure to illness, my food intake... any change at all tends to trigger flares of pain and fatigue. So I HAD to make gradual changes.
I wonder though if even the healthiest bodies resist change. My human anatomy and physiology experience is rather weak, despite the college coursework I had to take, but I know that there are many processes in the body work to maintain homeostasis. I know that from a psychological viewpoint, behavior change is difficult - even small to moderate behavior changes are often difficult to initiate and harder to maintain.
I think we've developed a cultural mythos that fat people are defective or broken in some way (even perhaps mentally ill).
I think the answer is much simpler than that, and referred to in the OP. Being hungrier than "average" had survival value for millions of years and then suddenly, in the last few decades the rules have changed. Food has become unnaturally abundant, but population isn't growing as fast as the food supply, because of widespread birth control use. In a natural world, overpopulation occurs long before widespread obesity could ever become a problem. Obesity also was self-corecting because you it made it more difficult for you to find food and to avoid becoming food. So you either lost weight or you were taken out of the gene pool by being eaten.
We've also changed the composition of our diet, eating more and more foods that mess with the insulin response and other factors involved in hunger.
In the book, The End of Overeating, David Kessler talks about "conditioned hypereating," that all mammals tend to overeat when presented with the flavor combination of sweet/salty/fatty. Flavors that were once only associated with celebration foods, and now have become every day foods. And ironically, animals that are under stress respond even more strongly to the flavor combination.
Even this there may be a survival trait we have evolved. In a natural world, carbohydrates, fats, and salt are generally very rare commodities. We may have evolved a "stock up" instinct because our bodies recognize these foods as nutritional goldmines (at least they would be, if we lived in a natural world, where these substances were rare).
Unfortunately, there's a cultural bias against research that is aimed at looking for non-psychological causes of obesity. Every research study that looks for physiological and genetic causes faces intense scrutiny and public outrage for "providing excuses" for people being overweight. We don't want to believe that the causes are physiological, because then we couldn't blame the fat person for being fat or for having difficulty losing weight.
I think we want to blame obese people much more than we want them helped. We'd rather obese people stay fat so we can hate them for being weak.
In my experience, the worst ridicule I ever received was for doing things not expected of a fat person. It wasn't when I was stuffing my face that I got the worst verbal abuse - it was when I was breaking the stereotype trying to do something about my weight. When I was riding a bike or swimming or dancing or eating carefully.
I suspect that the social and physiological aspects are stronger than the "mental" components (especially since five decades worth of research trying to find and identify "mental problems" among the obese, has largely yielded very few differences. Depression is about the only mental issue that is found in higher incidences among the obese - and researchers don't know whether the depression causes the obesity or the obesity causes the depression - proabably a bit of both).
I'm not diminishing the role of mental factors. In fact, there still is a large "mind game" component, I just don't think that obese folks have any more mental problems than non-obese folks (except the ones caused and contributed to by the obesity itself).
I think an overabundance of nutritionally empty food, and an inactive lifestyle is killing many people - and not just the fat ones. Autoimmune and metabolic diseases are reaching epidemic proportions and among normal weight persons as well as the obese.
In some ways, the thin folks may be at the disadvantage, because they (and even their doctors) may assume that they're healthier than they are, because they "look ok.
To some degree, obesity may be the red herring. We're only focusing on the weight, not the underlying problem (affecting thin and fat alike) of inactivity and a food supply in which poor quality foods are overly abundant and affordable, and healthy foods are the most expensive.
And traditionally, we haven't cared HOW people attempted to lose weight. To some degree that's still true. Instead of losing weight to improve their health (and therefore choosing healthy ways to do it) we have encouraged people to lose the weight by any method (even dangerous ones). In fact, speed of weight loss is often the only factor by which weight loss methods are evaluated. We literally don't care if the weight loss method kills us sooner, as long as it gets the weight off by swimsuit season.
There are a lot of problems with our social attitudes toward weight, and weight loss, and I think they overshadow the "mental problems" of individuals.
But changeing society is a lot harder than changing an individual. And humans don't like "swimming upstream" so in general, we'd rather consider ourselves broken than society.
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Their conclusions:
These results show that in at least some reduced-obese individuals there does not seem to be a permanent obligatory reduction in RMR beyond the expected reduction for a reduced lean mass.
That's been my personal experience: no permanent reduction in RMR despite lots of yo-yoing. Until science proves me wrong (which hopefully will never happen), I choose to believe that our metabolisms CAN and probably WILL return to normal after major diets and regains. I find this belief much more encouraging and comforting than the notion that our dieting history has permanently screwed our metabolisms.
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Thank you Meg,
I am not maintainer, I have lost 24 lb or some thing. But, I was always eating max 1400 calories. I used to workout 5 days a week. Now, my trainer tells me do workout just 3 days a week. I am not losing any more.
But, I feel I am already sailing in the same boat.
Pl let me know what you feel.
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By asking deceptively simple questions, the paedophile is able to glean important information about a child. The opportunity for physically locating and meeting up with your child is made easier by seemingly innocent bits of information.
As using the Internet can give a child a false sense of security, especially if accessed from home, they may easily be persuaded into giving out personal information, and even contact details to complete strangers, without realising that they are unwittingly exposing themselves to risks.
Content that is potentially disturbing, harmful or inappropriate for children accounts for less than 5% of all the information available on the Internet. But the likelihood that your child may stumble across material, especially images, that may be totally unsuitable or even disturbing and harmful, is far greater than the likelihood that your child would stumble across educational or informative materials.
Purveyors of pornography make use of every opportunity and trick to spread their material as widely as possible. Even if your child is not "surfing" the Internet for pornography, a simple misplaced letter in a word could open a pornographic website. Pornography comes looking for Internet users, not always the other way round.
Pornography is not the only content that your child might be exposed to unwittingly. Violent and racist materials are also harmful to children and there are many websites devoted to such material.
What can you do to protect your child from Internet predators?
Learn to recognise warning signs
Be aware and take note of the warning signs that your child may be in trouble, such as if he or she:
- Spends long hours on the Internet, especially in the evenings.
- Receives calls from people you do not know or makes calls to numbers you do not recognise.
- Receives gifts or mail from people you have never met or know to be friends of your child.
- Does not join in family activities but prefers to spend more time on a computer.
- Is not open to discussing her or his Internet activities with you.
- Turns off the computer or changes the screen quickly when anyone comes within "seeing" distance of the computer screen.
- Prefers to be alone when using the computer.
- Is, in some recognisable or visible way, behaving differently from the way he or she used to behave when not spending as much time on the computer.
- Has pornography on their computer.
- Gives you reason to believe they may be in contact with someone who could turn out to be an Internet predator, "grooming" your child in the hope of arranging a face-to-face meeting.
Find out about the language of chat rooms
Some understanding of "chat lingo" is essential. For instance, if you see your child typing a message that reads "BRBPAW", you should be suspicious because that means "I will be right back because my parents are watching".
A message that reads "Btw RU VGL" means "By the way, are you very good looking".
You may have reason to be concerned if you see "PM ASL", which means, "Private Message. What is your age, sex and location?"
Remember that your child probably knows a lot more about computers than you. It is worth making a little effort to understand what the Internet is all about so that you can properly understand what your child tells you when you ask about their Internet activities.
Empower your child
Your child is entitled to privacy and is a beneficiary of the constitutional right to freedom of expression. However, that right to privacy and freedom of expression stops when there is a real risk of harm to your child. More than a moral obligation, you have a legal obligation to protect your child from harm or even the risk of harm.
However, denying your child the use of a computer and access to the Internet is not the answer. Rather empower your child to use the internet in a safe and responsible manner. Teach your child how to maximise the positive benefits of the Internet without the risk of becoming a victim of Internet predators.
What is Child Pornography?
What is child pornography?
Child pornography comprises images and descriptions of children being sexually abused and tortured. In fact, many jurisdictions use the term "child abuse images" because that describes more accurately what child pornography is all about: the torture and abuse of children for sexual gratification and profit.
Child pornography is a highly organised, multimillion-dollar industry, profiting from the abuse of children all over the world. And the Internet is the preferred medium for its distribution, although mobile phones are increasingly being used – both for the creation and the distribution of images.
Every child who has access to the Internet, either via a computer or a mobile phone, is a potential victim of paedophiles and child abusers.
Paedophiles and child abusers use child pornography:
- to groom and seduce children by lowering their inhibitions into accepting sex with adults as "normal, acceptable and pleasurable" acts and that "everybody is doing it";
- to instruct children on how to perform specific sexual acts;
- to trade and exchange collections of child pornography, thus stimulating demand for more child pornography; and
- to blackmail and threaten children into silence about what is being done to them.
What are the laws concerning child pornography?
Child pornography and the law
Child pornography is the only category of materials that is completely prohibited, on pain of criminal sanctions, from creation, possession and distribution in most countries.
- be in possession of, or
- create or produce or assist in the creation or production of, or
- import or take steps to procure, obtain or access, or
- knowingly export, broadcast or distribute or cause to be exported, broadcast or distributed
In South Africa, in terms of the Films and Publications Act (1996), it is an offence to:
any film or publication that contains child pornography or which advocates, advertises or promotes child pornography or the sexual exploitation of children.
A person convicted of any of the above offences may be sentenced to a maximum of 10 years imprisonment for each of the above offences.
The Films and Publications Act also makes it an offence to expose any person under the age of 18 years to materials with images or descriptions of sexual conduct.
Failure to report knowledge or suspicions about any person involved with child pornography is also an offence, as is the failure to take steps to prevent access, by any person under the age of 18 years, to materials containing images or descriptions of sexual conduct under one's control.
Glossary of some expressions associated with the Internet
Glossary of Internet terms
Attachment: a file, sent as part of an email, containing information in the form of sounds or texts or pictures.
Chat room: a place or a "room" on the Internet where people from anywhere in the world can enter, by using passwords and nicknames, to chat, exchange and share information, including pictures, with others in the "room".
Web browser: a computer software program that lets you browse or search or surf the Internet, such as Internet Explorer or Safari.
Download: to transfer information, pictures, films and even music from a website to be saved in your computer.
Email: mail sent electronically, via the Internet, from one computer to another computer.
Filter: computer software that enables you to block certain content and websites from appearing on your computer.
Instant messaging: a way of communicating, through typed messages, with someone else via the Internet. It is similar to ending an SMS via cellular phones. People use a special language – "chat lingo" – when sending instant messages. For instance, "BRBPAW" means "be right back parents are watching"; "btw" stands for "by the way"; "RU VGL" asks "are you very good looking".
Internet Service Provider (ISP): companies that provide access to the Internet for a fee. MWeb and Telkom, for instance, are ISPs.
Summary of useful tips.
Tips to keep your children safe
Train your child to be cyber smart so that they can recognise potential dangers and know how to avoid threatening situations.
Talk to your children about sexual victimisation and the use of the Internet, especially of chat rooms, by paedophiles and child molesters looking for child victims. Encourage your children to tell you if they receive messages which make them feel uncomfortable or threatened, especially messages of a sexual nature.
Your supervision of your children's daily lives to ensure their safety should apply equally to their lives online.
Remember that your child might have access to the Internet outside your home, such as in a school or library or a friend's home or on their mobile phone. The more your children know and understand about being cyber smart, the safer their exploration of the Internet.
Spend time with your children when they are online and ask them to tell you about what they are doing and what they enjoy about the Internet. Show interest in their Internet activities.
If your child has ever been involved in any form of online sexual exploitation, even if willingly, make sure they understand that they are the victim of unscrupulous abusers of the Internet and it is not "their fault".
Make sure your child's computer is in a room used by the family and not in the child's bedroom.
Monitor your child's use of chat rooms. Make sure you know enough about chat rooms to advise your child about chat rooms which should be avoided. Direct your child to safe chat rooms, especially those which have been created for children. And, most importantly, tell your children to:
- never arrange or agree to any face-to-face meeting with any person they met online;
- never post to the Internet, or send to people they do not personally know, any pictures of themselves;
- never give out any personal information about themselves, even if the information seems unimportant and innocent, to any person online;
- never download pictures from an unknown source since there could be sexually explicit images;
- never respond to messages online that are sexually suggestive, obscene, aggressive or harassing;
- never believe as true anything that may be said by people online. Remind them that people online are not always who they pretend to be and paedophiles are adept at pretending to be of the same age as your child;
- never open email attachments unless they know the person sending them and know what they contain, and
- never enter a private chat room.
Make sure you check your child's emails and that your child knows that you will do so. Assure your child that you will do so not because you do not trust them but to ensure that they are safe from those who could harm him or her. Better yet, share an email address with your child so that you can monitor all messages. You should also check your phone bills for unusual amounts and unfamiliar phone numbers.
Consider installing filtering software in computers used by your children. This software can be programmed to block access to websites that contain materials to which children should not be exposed. However, remember that filtering software does not guarantee your child will not stumble across unsuitable material. It should rather be seen as a useful complement to all the other measures you would need to take to ensure that your child is safe on the Internet.
Useful links
Filtering software may be downloaded from the Internet. It is useful to talk to your Internet service provider or to someone who knows about filtering and parental control programs. (You can find a directory of filtering software programmes at www.getnetwise.org/tools.
You can get more information about filtering and blocking software at www.pin.org.uk/filtering.
You can also talk to your Internet service provider about rating systems that rely on website operators to indicate the nature of the materials on their websites. Internet browsers can be configured to allow children to visit only websites that are rated at a level that are suitable for children. Note, however, that not all websites are submitted for rating.

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Based on the best-selling novel by James Ellroy and directed by Curtis Hanson, this award-winning crime drama explores both the dark side of the Los Angeles police force and Southern California's criminal underbelly in the early '50s, when Hollywood was still seen as America's capital of sophistication, glitter, and glamour. Dudley Smith (James Cromwell) is the head of the LAPD and is loyal to his officers and eager to turn a blind eye to violence or corruption within his department, as long as it's the "bad guys" who are getting hurt. Bud White (Russell Crowe) is a police detective whose violent and cynical nature is often at war with his basic sense of decency and justice. Ed Exley (Guy Pearce) is a beat cop-turned-detective whose strict by-the-book philosophy and willingness to blow the whistle on other officers is balanced by a shrewd and opportunistic understanding of the internal politics of the department. And Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) is a flashy "Hollywood" detective who serves as technical advisor for the TV series Badge of Honor. He is also in cahoots with Sid Hudgeons (Danny DeVito), publisher of the scandal sheet Hush Hush, who throws kickbacks to Vincennes in exchange for being brought along when showbiz figures get busted. White, Exley, and Vincennes find themselves drawn into a tangled and sticky web of violence and betrayal following a multiple murder at a coffee shop that is believed to be part of an effort by Mickey Cohen (Paul Guilfoyle) to consolidate his hold on organized crime in L.A. This lead appears to be connected to the discovery of a bizarre pornography and call-girl ring operated by Pierce Patchett (David Strathairn), whose women are given plastic surgery so that they more closely resemble well-known movie stars. White's role in the investigation is complicated when he falls for Lynn Bracken (Kim Basinger), one of Patchett's prostitutes, who is the spitting image of Veronica Lake. L.A. Confidential was nominated for nine Academy Awards and netted two, with Brian Helgeland honored for Best Adapted Screenplay, and Kim Basinger taking home a statuette as Best Supporting Actress.
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5. Mystery Woman [2:55]
6. Premiere Pot Bust! [1:32]
7. Bloody Christmas [4:06]
8. Will You Testify? [5:23]
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17. Justice for Inez [3:52]
18. Shotgun Ed [2:11]
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20. Lynn's Bedroom [1:57]
21. Showbiz [4:44]
22. Jack's Discovery [3:01]
23. A Real Detective [2:44]
24. Mrs. Lefferts [4:52]
25. Rollo Tomasi [3:44]
26. Muscle for Hire [2:15]
27. Fleur de Lis Again [1:31]
28. Johnny and "Lana" [1:10]
29. "I See Bud" [4:45]
30. Jack's Valediction [4:12]
31. Hush-Hush [5:01]
32. Working Together [5:39]
33. Good Cop/Bad Cop [3:07]
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35. Victory Motel [2:48]
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This movie was a thrilling change from the pointless and inane crime movies Hollywood seems to relish in churning out. It was brilliantly cast and the sets and costumes were fantastic. But if you're going to buy this movie make sure to buy a copy with the commentary at the end. That was the best part, because James Ellroy, the writer of the book this movie is based on, was interviewed. He was hilariously full of himself and so pompous I thought he was going to explode! After seeing what a great movie it was, and listening to him go on and on about himself, I had to go read the book. The book stunk. This is one of those rare times when a stellar movie is made from an uninspired toilet-read. So, my advice is to watch the movie and skip the book.
The original " L.A. Confidential" DVD was the very first DVD I ever purchased. I am very happy to know that finally, after all these years, a " special edition" of this movie is on the way! This film was the closest thing to " perfect" in terms of the casting, the scriptwriting, and the settings. After 10 years, it still bugs me that " Titanic" won Best Picture instead of " L.A. Confidential" . Can't wait to see all the extra features!


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Chrome 13 has been released, but the bigger news is found in the overall. Chrome continues to gain ground on a global scale, and recent studies show that both Microsoft and Google are benefiting from brand loyalty that encompasses both browser and search.
Chrome 13 Release
The new version of Chrome follows the company's standard six-week release cycle and includes three new features. The big one, which we discussed previously, is Instant Pages. Instant Pages pre-loads content from sites that Google "can predict with reasonable confidence that you'll click" (according to the Inside Search post discussing the feature). Here's a video demonstration of how Instant Pages works:
Chrome 13 also comes with a "print preview" feature for Windows and Linux users. This preview lets users view any page or document they print from the browser. The preview is automatically generated when you hit "Print" by quickly turning the page into a PDF and using the built-in Chrome PDF viewer.
And last, but not least, the Omnibar has seen improvements. Users can now access sites that they've visited previously more quickly, and Google brags that overall the bar has simply become "smarter."
Browser-Search Loyalty
Chrome is faring very well. Across the globe, figures continue to rise, and Google's browser is now the second most popular in the UK, at 22 percent share (as reported by The Guardian). A lot of the success of Chrome seems to be tied to loyalty to Google search.
According to a relatively small study done by SeatGeek, there's a strong correlation between the browser and search engine being used for traffic. SeatGeek saw 97 percent of Chrome users coming in from Google, while IE users had a substantially higher number coming from Yahoo (origin point for 12 percent of IE users), Bing (five percent), and AOL (one percent).
A second study confirms the same idea: If you use, and stay up to date, with a browser, you're more likely to use the search site from the company who made said browser. According to the Chitika study, IE9 users turn to Bing almost 23 percent of the time, compared to 17 percent for IE8 users, and 11 percent of IE6. Chitika's figures unfortunately don't cover Chrome percentages. I've contacted the author, Daniel Ruby, to see if that information is available, but he has yet to respond.
The picture is clear. Google and Microsoft aren't just selling one element at a time. Their cross-integration and brand loyalty has created a strong tie between browser and search.
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Courtesy of Glenn Beck, America's #1 Teabag Gasbag, around 60,000 protestors marched on Capitol Hill today, and a more motley crowd you never saw. I use the word motley in the sense of incongruous or nonsensical, as evidenced by the protest signs they were carrying. Barack Obama can be many things to many people, but he cannot be a Marxist, Nazi, Socialist, Fascist, Kenyan Muslim Jew all at the same time.
You can't have a protest if the crowd can't agree on what it is protesting. By caricaturing Obama as the embodiment of all evil (quite a few signs depicted him as Satan), the protestors lost not only cohesion, but also coherence. So maybe the way to describe what this Teabag party had in common was "œanger." Also, they were virtually all white people, most of them baby boomers, no doubt a few of them carrying concealed weapons, and the overwhelming number of them seriously overweight. But here again, we get back to incongruity. How can anyone take your protest against socialized medicine seriously when you are marching in your motorized scooter, bought for you by Medicare?
We can't dismiss these teabag protestors just because they are incomprehensible. In states where it is legal to carry weapons in public, a few of the protestors have showed up with automatic rifles, even at venues where the president himself was speaking. These protestors can easily evolve into the fascist, brown-shirt arm of the American right, ready to be used for intimidation or violence.
There are other, obvious reasons to be concerned. These teabag parties represent the newly disenfranchised white, rural voter "" the backbone of the Republican Party and its southern strategy. The outburst this week by Rep. Joe Wilson, the obscure South Carolina Congressman who called President Obama a liar during his speech to a joint session of Congress, was prompted by Obama's statement that nothing in the healthcare reform package he is proposing would provide care for illegal immigrants.
The fear of immigrants is a primal constant in American politics, but since the adoption of the southern strategy, this fear is at its core a racial concern. Immigration in the past 30 years is no longer about poor white people coming from Europe, it's about brown people coming from Mexico. Now that an African-American is president, protests against illegal immigrants can be a respectable way for people to say what is really on their mind "" they cannot accept a black person as president.
Something else that was highly significant about Rep. Wilson's shout-out was that he himself was lying "" none of the reform bills in front of the Congress allows any provision of healthcare for illegal immigrants. Perhaps we should start with the fact that Joe Wilson doesn't actually exist "" his real name is Addison Graves Wilson, Sr. Joe Wilson is a faux-populist pseudonym used to give Addison Wilson some credibility as an average Joe with the voters, so perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that he isn't interested in the facts or the reality of what is actually being discussed and proposed in Congress.
Joe Wilson is the embodiment, as are the Teabaggers and Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, of the challenges the political right in America has with reality and its well-known liberal bias. It is now perfectly acceptable for Republican politicians to distort and deny reality, assert any lie they wish about Democrats or liberals, and then have the hypocrisy to accuse the Democrats or liberals of being themselves the liars. This propensity confuses the political discussion (such as it is these days what with all the shouting), but the real danger it poses occurs when the Republicans win national office, because they no longer have an ability to govern effectively since they don't operate in the real world. Supposedly it was Karl Rove who spoke triumphantly of the Bush administration's ability to create its own reality, and this type of thinking is what virtually every Republican politician displays these days.
But what is most odd and fascinating about the teabag movement, and certain media leaders like Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs, is the tendency to lift themes from the liberal protests that began during the Bush administration, and to use them as their own. I'm not making an argument of equivalence here; George Bush used intimidation to wrest the presidency from Al Gore, while Barack Obama overwhelmed John McCain in popular and electoral voting, and won the presidency fair and square. What happened following these "œvictories" was similar, though. The left never accepted George Bush as a legitimate president, and the right denies Obama's legitimacy as well through the birther movement. The right has to use a trumped up, fantastical argument that Obama is an unconstitutional president, since it has no real facts to support its case, but the underlying core feeling is that Obama in the world as they know it could not possibly be president.
A second theme is the level of disgust each side has with deficit spending. Liberals watched George Bush turn the Clinton-Gore surplus into the biggest federal deficit ever, for the purpose of transferring more wealth to the rich and funding an illegal, misbegotten and mismanaged war. Conservatives see Barack Obama expanding the deficit even further, in an attempt to bring "œsocialism" to America in the form of a larger, more intrusive federal bureaucracy. It's not so much that either side has a problem with deficit spending, as it is for what purpose the spending is used. There is the usual heavy dose of Republican hypocrisy at work here "" after eight years of sitting by mutely, acquiescing in Bush's reckless spending, the right is suddenly galvanized by fiscal prudence? Not really. It is how this money is spent that motivates Republican protests.
Both sides have miserable economic conditions they can decry and blame on the other side. The Republicans have much more to work with here "" the economy has tanked into a depression brought about by the collapse of the credit system. The Republicans have to abandon all sense of shame and remorse and wallow completely in hypocrisy, ignoring the devastating economic damage caused by Bush's eight years of a housing bubble and financial deregulation. The more sensitive Republicans can just dump Bush completely and claim he never represented conservatism anyway "" he was a liberal in disguise. Just never mind the fact they didn't dare protest him while he was in office.
The most intriguing similarity, though, is the reliance on anti-corporatism. The left has a long tradition of suspicion of corporate power to work with in its current campaign against vested corporate interests, such as the lobbyists that dominate Congress, the pharmaceutical and insurance industries that have wrecked health care, or the industrial complex that feeds off military largesse. The left has added to this a sense of amazement and disdain over the way the financial industry has not only destroyed the economy, but managed to get the taxpayers to fund their errors through trillion dollar bailouts.
Lou Dobbs has long been a voice on the right criticizing corporate influence on the political process, and he has been joined by Glenn Beck who forecasts an economic and social Armageddon as this depression rolls on, and who sees socialism or communism at work in the degree to which the federal government now has replaced the banks as the source of capital in this country. Leftist commentators were equally vociferous in condemning the banking bailout when Henry Paulson was running the show, but what they saw was not socialism at work, but crony capitalism at work and corruption and greed run rampant on Wall Street.
What the right and left have in common is a sense that the economic, financial and political system is broken; that corruption dominates policy making in this country; that this "œGreat Recession" is greater than is being let on by the government; that the media are in the pockets of big business and the banks and are therefore not reporting on the true and desperate situation facing the country; that Constitutional power has been usurped by the presidency against the interests and rights of the people; and that social order is breaking down as this country slips into a third world banana republic.
There must be at least some partial truth in these feelings. There is after all deep economic pain being felt throughout an economy in which the true level of unemployment/underemployment runs around 17%, and in which living standards are deteriorating sharply. Both sides, therefore, have a surprising degree of unanimity on the problems. The left happens to see government intrusion as a necessary and temporary expediency to get the economy moving; the right sees this intrusion as permanent and a debilitating expansion of the socialist state erected by FDR and Lyndon Johnson.
The different interpretations of the role of government in solving this crisis are wide and deep between the right and the left. The critical question, therefore, is whether the similarities when it comes to recognizing the problems are enough for the right and left to find common ground. If they did, the country wouldn't be quite as politically polarized as it is, because the right and left would be both arrayed against corporate power and the entrenched Washington political and media elite. To give an example, both sides would have reason to get rid of Timothy Geithner, Ben Bernanke, and the entire Obama economic team, because they represent the failed status quo. There would be agreement that change is needed, but there wouldn't be much agreement on who or what policies were to follow.
Could we see a day in which teabaggers and liberal activists join forces in public protests? Given continued economic deterioration, anything is possible "" in fact it is quite plausible that many sectors of the public could rise up against the "œestablishment". What is missing is, first, the necessary economic collapse, and second, the right sort of leader. We've already had a terrible economic setback, and the road we are on suggests an economic collapse ala Argentina in this decade is possible though not yet probable.
But we definitely do not have the right sort of leader. Limbaugh and Beck are spokesmen for disenfranchised white people railing against their inevitable demographic status as a minority in a country dominated by blacks, Hispanics, Asians and other non-white immigrants. These men use the current economic disorder and disgust with the bank bailouts as tools to stir up what is essentially a racist movement. No one has yet appeared on the right who is able to play the role of leader in an effort to throw out the established economic and financial order. The cranky Ron Paul isn't that person, though some of his ideas regarding the Federal Reserve and the cost of the empire have the possibility of resonating deeply across the political spectrum.
No one on the left has risen to that position either. Barack Obama had the potential but has shown himself captive to the status quo and much more interested in "œfixing" a corrupt system rather than overthrowing it. He would need a massive conversion of spirit to want to overthrow the system rather than reform it, though again, anything is possible. FDR did not enter office as an agent for radical change; he became one by necessity and one can debate just how radical his changes were. To the average European politician, FDR looks like he brought a bit of European socialism to the US system, but nothing like what certain European countries have set up and come to love.
So the left watches the right and the right watches the left, each side criticizing the other, and neither willing to admit the remarkable similarities that have begun to appear on each side of the political spectrum. The similarities are in the diagnosis of the depth of the problems and the need to replace the existing establishment in Washington in order to do anything about it. We need to watch for a sequence of events to occur that would portend significant change for the United States. This sequence would include:
a) Substantial further deterioration in the economic order, for which there is reasonable expectation given the amount of debt liquidation still required from the private and public sector,
b) An awakening moment when the right and left realize they have common cause in overthrowing the economic and political elites which brought about this disaster,
c) The rise of a leader who can channel the anger into productive protest, and who can grab the levers of power, one hopes with constitutional legitimacy. This leader may be from the right or left, or equally possible, from neither end of the spectrum and therefore appearing as an outsider ready to chuck both liberal and conservative control over policy and the tools used to change policy.
Once these three things happen, the real fight can begin. Will the US accept more of the socialism that characterizes France, Belgium, the Scandinavian countries, etc.? Will a more rigid, right wing regime take over as is often seen in banana republics, and if so, what role will corporations play in a system that is often heavily reliant on crony capitalism? Will something else evolve?
Whatever happens, the potential for momentous change is growing. It is at these moments when a system that appears permanently rooted is most vulnerable. We are used to seeing the same men "" mostly men at least "" occupying the committee chairs in Congress, the cabinet and commission seats in the administration, the anchor and newspaper columnist posts in the media, the generalships and admiralties in the military. We cannot imagine all of them being swept away, much less their positions being abolished or disappearing in irrelevance. But such is the nature of our problems, and of our despair, that a mass political and economic extermination is not just possible but becoming probable.
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