Hi, Can you provide a link or information on where I can purchase this device? Thanks in advance.
Julian On 3/8/13, Sandratomkins <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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. >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >> Google Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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