Satan communicates with his demons by Hell phone.

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  People who complain about mad cow disease have a legitimate beef.

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Introduction

  Dietetics can save your life if you have this disease. Also dietetics can prevent you from getting the disease, but it is better if you don't smoke. Being overweight is another risk factor, but that can be handled by diet and exercise.

The Low Sodium Diet

  Don't eat popcorn. Salt is added to popcorn, even when you pop it yourself. It is already in the package of microwave popcorn. Also, don't eat chips. At lot of salt and fat are in chips. Read the nutrition labels on food that you buy.

  Often you can taste the salt. For example, olives have a lot of salt. A can of beef stew has salt added to it before canning. Bacon has a lot of salt and bad fats. Eggs also have a lot of bad fats. Fruits are low in both salt and fat. Also fruits are high in potassium. Eat fruits.

  Sodium is in the following foods:

Anchovies, bacon, beef, bologna, bran, butter, Canadian bacon, clams, corned beef, dulse, green beans, green olives, ham, Irish moss, kelp, margarine, meat, milk, poultry, rose hips, salt, sardines, seafood, tomatoes. Supplements: Baking soda, monosodium glutamate, sodium ascorbate, sodium chloride. 

  Note that the worst offenders are animal foods. The only fruits mentioned are rose hips and tomatoes. Even bread can have salt added to it. Read the label on the bread before you buy it.

Potassium

  Potassium is considered heart healthy. Potassium is in the following foods:

 Almonds, apricots, avocados, bananas, beef, bran, Brazil nuts, brewer's yeast, broccoli, brown rice, cabbage herb, cashews, celery herb, chard, citrus fruit, dairy foods, dates, figs, fish, fruit, garlic, grapefruit juice, green leafy vegetables, guava, legumes, lentils, meat, milk, molasses, nectarine, nuts, oranges, parsley, parsnips, peanuts, peaches, pork, potatoes, poultry, raisins, rice bran, sardines, seaweed, seeds, soybeans, spinach (fresh), squash, sunflower seeds, tomato juice, veal, walnuts, wheat bran, whole grains, yams. Supplements: potassium ascorbate, potassium aspartate, potassium benzoate, potassium carbonate, potassium chloride, potassium gluconate, potassium hydroxide.

  Note that fruits are rich in potassium. Both fruits and vegetables are low in fat except for the avocado. Fruits are almost the perfect foods! Nuts contain a lot of fat.

Stress

  Avoid stress because it is a risk factor for hypertension.

Fight Fat

  Fat is also a rsk factor. The vegan diet is relatively low in fat. It has no cholesterol and is low in saturated fats. The best foods are fruits and vegetables. Some grains are good. Whole wheat bread is better than white bread because it has more fiber. Brown rice is better than white rice for the same reason. Fiber has no calories. Water has no calories. If you are overweight, lose some weight. The Pritikin diet, which is low in fat, is also good. The Dean Ornish diet is similar. Both Pritikin and Ornish were like Jack Spratt. Unfortunately Pritikin is deceased, but his son is still carrying on with his work. I think Ornish is still alive.

The Elderly

  Hypertension is more common among elderly people (1).

"Hypertension is one of the major risk factors for the main cause of death in adult populations world wide: cardiovascular diseases (including ischemic heart disease and stroke)."

Ericka Méndez-Chacón,#1 Carolina Santamaría-Ulloa,#1,2 and Luis Rosero-Bixby, #1

1. Centro Centroamericano de Población, Universidad de Costa Rica, Sede Rodrigo Facio, 2060, Costa Rica

2. Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Corresponding author.

#Contributed equally.Ericka Méndez-Chacón: ericka@ccp.ucr.ac.cr; Carolina Santamaría-Ulloa: csantamaria@ccp.ucr.ac.cr; Luis Rosero-Bixby: lrosero@ccp.ucr.ac.cr

  The quote is from Ref. 1. This is an Open Access article, meaning that it can be quoted at will providing the proper citation is given. The article is available free full text on the Internet at the Pubmed Central database.

  If the diet fails, there are a number of drugs that can be used. Unfortunately some have bad side effects. Failing to beat hypertension could lead to a stroke. Cholesterol is also a factor in a stroke. Cholesterol builds up in the artery and causes a blockage. See Ref. 2 for more information.

  There are also theories that certain supplements, including omega-3-fatty acids, help. Most fats are bad guys, but these fats are helpful.

Conclusions

  More research is needed. However, a great deal of research has already been done.

  There are certain prescription medications that can raise your blood pressure, unfortunately. Some of these are MAOIs (monoamine oxidase inhibitors). There are also over-the-counter medicines that can raise your blood pressure including Sudafed (pseudoephedrine). The general rule is that catecholamines such as epinephrine can raise your blood pressure. Anxiety and pain can raise your blood pressure, probably due to the release of catecholamines. Information on anxiety is given in Ref. 3.

  Information on the vegan diet is given in Refs. 4 & 5. Information on alternative medicine is given in Ref. 6.

References

1. Factors associated with hypertension prevalence, unawareness and treatment among Costa Rican elderly. Ericka Méndez-Chacón, Carolina Santamaría-Ulloa, and Luis Rosero-Bixby. BMC Public Health. 2008; 8: 275. Published online 2008 August 5.

2.  Aggarwal M, Khan IA. Hypertensive crisis: Hypertensive Emergencies and Urgencies. Cardiol Clin. 2006;24:135–146. doi: 10.1016/j.ccl.2005.09.002.

3. www.associatedcontent.com/article/2371816/anxiety_causes_and_treatment.html

4. www.associatedcontent.com/article/2359246/animal_rights_activism.html

5.  www.associatedcontent.com/article/2339808/the_vegetarian_and_vegan_diets_to_fight.html
6. www.orthomolecular.org

By Christoph Steitz and Jonathan Gleave

FRANKFURT/MADRID (Reuters) - European renewable companies posted moderate to sharp declines in quarterly results but sounded more upbeat for 2010, as costs cuts and an expected pickup in demand help lift profits after a year of turmoil.

Three of Germany's top solar energy companies said they expected to either return to or grow profits next year following a year of weak economic demand, reduced government subsidies and bruising price competition from low-cost Asian rivals.

The two biggest -- Q-Cells, among the world's largest solar cell makers, and Conergy -- aim for a 2010 operating profit.

Still, both companies posted large quarterly net losses, with Q-Cells, a supplier of cells and module components to commercial customers, losing nearly a quarter of a billion euros.,

Solar equipment wholesaler Phoenix Solar, which like Conergy, installs residential solar roof panels, posted a small third-quarter net profit, but cut its 2009 outlook due to delays in the financing of solar power plants.

Spanish wind turbine maker Gamesa posted a 21 percent fall in nine-months core profit from a year earlier, but said that its activity should pick up in the fourth quarter of 2009 and plans to launch new products in 2010

Investors will have to wait until February for a 2010 outlook for Gamesa, which was optimistic about the Spanish business environment in 2010 thanks to new renewables regulation, but did not see a recovery at its US business in the short term.

Compatriot Acciona -- which is active in the markets for both wind and solar energy -- said it expected to install at least 400 megawatts (MW) of wind and 100 MW of solar power next year.

Meanwhile, German group SMA Solar Technology raised its 2009 guidance for the second time.

"Margins of European solar players remain under pressure, but demand is improving," said Arthur Hoffmann, manager of the new power fund at Swiss Bank Sarasin & Cie.

Renewable companies have been dealt a blow by the global economic downturn, with makers of solar cells and modules -- such as Q-Cells and Conergy -- hit hard by a worldwide slump in prices, while wind power companies have suffered from a bottleneck in project financing and customer delays.

The importance of solar and wind energy is likely to be highlighted at a global summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December, where new steps to combat global warming could be agreed.

PRICES HALVING

Q-Cells and Conergy have massively underperformed the FTSE clean tech index, since the beginning of the year, while Phoenix Solar, which installs solar panels on roofs, outperformed as end-customer demand held up relatively well.

Shares in Q-Cells, Conergy and Phoenix Solar all closed down 3.6 to 6.3 percent and Gamesa closed down 1.2 percent, while Acciona closed up 1 percent. 

For a graph of share price performance of Q-Cells, Conergy and Phoenix over the last years, please click on:

here

"In the past year, we have seen (cell) prices basically halving, something the industry did not expect," said Q-Cells Chief Executive Anton Milner.

Milner said that his company was seeing signals of improving demand, also with regard to the financing of the sector.

Apart from the price slump, the sector is fighting a financing bottleneck. The credit squeeze has led banks to give out fewer credit lines companies need to finance operations. This has forced companies to raise money by selling assets and issuing shares to beef up their balance sheets.

"In our opinion, solar cell manufacturing is a bad industry with low technical barriers to entry and too much capital chasing a pot of gold which might not actually be at the end of the rainbow," wrote Bank of America Merrill Lynch analyst Matthew Yates.

The quarterly losses by Q-Cells and Conergy also highlight the growing gap between European makers and their Chinese peers, who are benefiting from large government subsidies and lower production costs.

JA Solar this week reported record high quarterly shipments as demand rebounded, lifting the Chinese solar cell maker to a profit.

Q-Cells and Norwegian peer Renewable Energy Corp have already set up production plants in Asia or are in the process of doing so to cope with their high labor costs.

U.S.-based Applied Materials, the world's leading maker of semiconductor equipment and a major supplier of tools used to produce solar cells, said late on Wednesday that price declines are slowing and credit improving. Mike Splinter, the Silicon Valley-based company's CEO, said the rooftop solar market was a bright spot, as was China's market.

(Additional reporting by Clara Vilar in Madrid; Editing by Eric Auchard, Andrew Callus and Sitaraman Shankar)

http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE5AB4KE20091112