Bonjour Anne,
I see you got the StandScan pro! I have it too and think it very good. I
would just like to add one comment to your findings: it would appear, from your
two nearly excellent scans, that there is little to choose between the 9 volt
and 12 volt options, however, this is only true when there is reasonable
ambient lighting. Something I have been looking for, and think to have found
with the StandScan Pro, is a way of making sure that: 1. The phone is always in
the perfect position and 2. that the lighting within the box is perfect
regardless of other conditions. I have found that 12 volts of power is
necessary to obtain perfect/near perfect results even in complete darkness!
When the ambient light is good enough, one doesn't even need to use the LED
lights included in the StandScan box, but, especially, for those of us who have
no light perception, and are unable to avoid creating shadows etc, the
StandScan plus 12 volts of light, is capable of fulfilling these 2 requirements.
By the way, did you buy the 12 volt battery holder, by any chance? I
thought I did, but it seems I didn't. If I can find it on their website, I will
try and order it, because I don't always want to rely upon a mains connection.
Also, for those who are interested in these more abstruse points, your
scans were double page scans taken from a book, something to be aimed for, but
in general, single page scans are, as in the case of a letter in the post, the
most important challenge re access and independence. So, just an observation
from here: the other day a friend came round, all het up, with a letter from a
solicitor. My friend read it to me and wanted my reaction to it. He was
distressed and kept reading me the text, all in a rush, interjecting expletives
in lieu of commas! In the end I said "I'll just make a copy of this and read it
again when I can concentrate properly." I did this using the StandScan Pro, I
got a perfect scan and was able to find the word "or" in a significant sentence
which made all the difference! So, an example of the need to have absolutely
perfect scans sometimes.
I am certainly glad to have this scanning aid and would recommend it to
anyone, regardless of their free-hand scanning skills. I think it will work
both for those of us who have developed a facility with the various scanning
apps and those who have had absolutely no success at all! But I would
definitely recommend the use of 12 volts for relyable results in all situations!
Onwards and upwards! Sandy.
Sent from my iPhone
On 7 Mar 2013, at 18:37, Anne Robertson <annefromo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> My StandScan Pro arrived today and I'm really impressed! Below my signature
> I've pasted two scans, the first one using the mains adaptor with the
> StandScan Pro, and the second one using the battery. These are double-pages
> and the two are not the same.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anne
>
> The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living quished (because m p pie then
> returned to a 'balanced,,_ -~ relin.
> diet), along with many of its associated metabolic benefits '~ainterla%
> Parallel in time to the popularity of VLCDs, Dr. Robert Atkins promoted a
> less energy-restricted approach to a ketogenic diet. His focus Was on keeping
> carbohydrate intake low enough to induce ketosis, but not to severely limit
> (or even count) calories. To achieve this, he advised individu.
> als to eat protein and fat to satiety while keeping dietary carbohydrates low
> enough to maintain positive urine ketones. It was his view that this diet,
> including vegetables, limited fruit, and vitamin supplements, could be
> followed by the individual outpatient without close medical SUpervi.
> sion unless there was a pre-existing complicating condition like diabetes or
> hypertension. For most patients, however, the Atkins diet tended to be only a
> temporary sojourn into nutritional ketosis, whether for want of sweets or
> want of approbation from their friends and doctor.
> n
> ,
> owever, in these parallel few decades of the VLCD and Atldns diet, hundreds
> of studies were done, and we learned a great deal about carbohydrate
> restriction. Among these lessons are many which can contribute to the safe
> and sustainable use of carbohydrate restricted diets going forward.
> Counting Calories vs Carbs It was Dr. Atkins' contention that when most
> carbohydrate was removed from the diet, heavy people lose weight more
> effectively than by classic balanced calorie restriction. The mechanism was
> (and remains) hotly debated. Claims of reduced metabolic efficiency during
> nutritional ketosis remain unproven. Among other points against this is the
> fact that Steve Phinney's bike racers produced the same power output in
> testing 0~ a stationary bike using the same oxygen consumption after adapting
> to the Inuit diet compared to their test on a high carb diet[23], leaving
> little room for metabolic inefficiency in this group of subjects.
> But this argument over the mechanism of weight loss is an acaderoic
> straw.man, In study after study, over the first 3-6 months, people r~a"
> ClinicaIUse°fCarb°hydrateRestricti°n: VeryL°wCal°rieandLowCarbohydrateDiets
> donaized to a low carb diet eaten to satiety lose more Weight and more body
> fat than those assigned to a low fat, calorie restricted diet. A credible
> mechanism to explain this is not hard to find - carbohydrates in our diet may
> offer a short-term sense of increased energy, but they offer little in the
> way of functional satiety.
> ~e best example of this effect was reported by Dr. Guenther Boden[45] in an
> inpatient study of obese type-2 diabetics. After a week of eating a balanced
> diet to satiety, the subjects were given a low carbohydrate diet consisting
> of most of the same foods, with the exception that they were asked to limit
> their total daily carbohydrate intake to 20 grams. Over the next two weeks,
> their spontaneous nutrient intakes were carefully measured. Interestingly,
> the subject's average daily energy intake dropped from 3100 to 2100 Calories,
> and this was all due to the 'missing' carbs.
> Despite having the choice to eat more, the protein and fat intakes of these
> subjects remained relatively constant. And despite this 1000 Calorie per day
> deficit, their reported hunger, satisfaction, and energy levels did not
> change appreciably. What did change was their diabetes control - dramatically
> for the better. For more on this topic, see Chapter 15.
> But this study was just 2 weeks long. What happens in the longer term? Well,
> the process of full metabolic adaptation to a low carbohydrate diet takes up
> to 6 weeks, so for the first few months, we would expect wellbeing and
> function to get better. But after many months and a major degree of weight
> loss, it is a normal response of the human body to try to limit its losses.
> This is typically achieved by eating more, but what? If dietary carbohydrate
> intolerance led to the choice of a low carbohydrate diet at the outset, why
> lift that restriction? In particular, why add back calories that promote fat
> storage but do not provide functional satiety? Accepting that protein is good
> for us only in moderation, the answer is fat (see Chapters 2 and 16). How
> much fat should you add as you approach Weight maintenance.~ The simple
> answer: "let satiety rule", 163 1~9
>
>
> -- Made with Prizmo.
>
> Scan 2, using battery
>
> The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living Ketones - To Measure or Not As
> noted m" Chapter 1, nutritional ketosis is defined by ser-um keto ranging
> from 0.5 up to 5 mM, depending on the amounts ^€ ~. aes ~'~ uletary car.
> boh#rate and protein consumed. In most people, the Combined intake of 100
> grams of carbohydrate and 100 grams of protein will drive seruna ketones well
> below 0.5 mM. While there is nothing magical about hay.
> ing circulating ketones above this threshold level, it does have the practi.
> cal value of providing the brain with a virtually limitless, fat-derived fuel
> source. This alternative fuel is eminently more sustainable, particularly in
> the insulin resistant or carbohydrate intolerant individual.
> Within a few days of starting on carbohydrate restriction, most people begin
> excreting ketones in their urine. This occurs before serum ket0nes have risen
> to their stable adapted level because un-adapted renal tubules actively
> secrete beta-hydroxybutyrate and acetoacetate into the urine.
> This is the same pathway that clears other organic acids like uric acid,
> vitamin C, and penicillin from the serum.
> Meanwhile, the body is undergoing a complex set of adaptations in ketone
> metabolism[99]. Beta-hydroxybutyrate and acetoacetate are made in the liver
> in about equal proportions, and both are initially promptly oxidized by
> musde. But over a matter of weeks, the muscles stop using these ketones for
> fuel. Instead, muscle cells take up acetoacetate, reduce it to
> betahydroxybutyrate, and return it back into the circulation. Thus after a
> few weeks, the predominant form in the circulation is beta.hydroxybutyrate'
> which also happens to be the ketone preferred by brain cells (as an aside,
> the strips that test for ketones in the urine detect the presence of
> acetoacetate, not beta-hydroxybutyrate). The result of this process of ket0"
> adaptation is an elegantly choreographed shuttle of fuel from fat cells to
> liver to muscle to brain.
> In the kidney, this process ofketo-adaptation is also complex, over ti#,
> urine ketone excretion drops off, perhaps to conserve a valuable enerf/
> substrate (although urine ketone excretion never amounts to very na#Y wasted
> calories). This decline in urine ketones happens over the s~e 164
> clinicalUseofGarbohydrate Restricti°n: Very L°wCalorieandLowCarbohydrateDiets
> time-course that renal uric acid clearance returns to normal (discussed
> beloW) and thus may represent an adaptation in kidney organic acid metabolism
> in response to sustained carbohydrate restriction.
> These temporal changes in how the kidneys handle ketones make urine ketone
> testing a rather uncertain if not undependable way of monitoring dietary
> response/adherence. Testing serum for beta-hydroxybutyrate is much more
> accurate but requires drawing blood, and it is expensive because it is not a
> routine test that doctors normally order.
> A non-invasive alternative is to measure breath acetone concentration.
> Acetone is produced by the spontaneous (i.e., non-enzymatic) breakdown of
> acetoacetate. Because it is volatile, acetone comes out in expired air, and
> its content is linearly correlated with blood ketone levels. A number of
> businesses have developed prototype handheld devices to measure breath
> acetone, but at the time of this writing, nothing practical is on the market.
> But whatever test is used, the key question is why do it? Many people are
> able to initiate and follow a low carbohydrate diet just fine without ever
> measuring ketones. Others, however, find an objective measure of nutritional
> ketosis to be reassuring. In some clinical settings, ketone testing is used
> as a measure of'diet compliance'. While this may be useful in the short term
> to keep patients on track in a strictly regimented dietary program, it begs
> the question of how that individual's diet will be managed long term. For
> this purpose, the handheld breath acetone monitors under development hold
> some promise as a guidance tool put into the hands of the individual striving
> to find the right levd of carbohydrate intake for long-term maintenance.
> Biochemical changes (uric acid, acid/base, dectrolytes, cholesterol
> mobilization)
> There are often dramatic but wholly predictable changes that occur in blood
> chemistry values upon initiation of a low carbohydrate diet. As a result, and
> also due to the very limited food intakes of people following very low
> calorie diets, most clinics using them do routine blood tests over the first
> 165
>
>
> -- Made with Prizmo.
>
>
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