I found a way to get around tariffs that will raise the price of audio equipment.

cholesterol is you least problem with alcohol tobacco.it has a direct link to head and neck cancer

@mark200mph , cardiovascular disease kills more people in the USA than cancer, so be sure and tell that to the next patient you are trying to shock out of v-fib.

@nonoise , without seeing your actual lab work I cannot make an informed comment. The other level the doc may have been referring to was probably your HDL, but at a certain level of LDL I am not sure the HDL can actually compensate for it. Maybe I have been indoctrinated due to my second career as a RN after my  previous career went south on me, but my understanding is that elevated LDL has a direct link to coronary artery disease and CAD has a direct link to myocardial infarction and MI often ends up as cardiac arrest, and when that happens if you are not in the right place and around the right people it usually has a poor outcome (and even then survival is not a done deal). I didn’t intend that as a lecture and I wish you a long healthy life so I sincerely hope that everything you are doing health wise works for you, but a low dose of Crestor is working okay for me with minimal side effects, so I am not changing that until it doesn’t work.

@nonoise  Rump simply banned Chinese EVs once he came into office.

Not true. Again it was Biden.

"In the final days of his presidency, Joe Biden has announced a rule to prohibit the sale and import of connected vehicle hardware and software systems, as well as completed connected vehicles, from China and Russia."

Additional 'Protective' tariffs will prevent Chinese EV's from entering the market. Because if we don't we will see the end of our auto industry. Are you aware...BYD is making electric cars for as low as $12k? I bet consumers would run as fast as they can to buy these cheap cars and would give a crap about the destruction of our industry.

The cheap price is all that matters. 

@immatthewj 

Thanks for the heads up and info. I'd like to think I have some good years left and have been contemplating a better life and in order to do so, go back to that diet I mentioned that served me so well. The problem is I have a sweet tooth and still eat like a kid....which shows and it's starting to bug me. I've always rebounded from what little backsliding I've done but at 71, the results aren't coming like they used to. 

Time to heed your and my own advice. 😀

All the best,
Nonoise

@gdaddy1 

Gee, I wonder why Rump didn't rescind Biden's orders on that and yes, I'm aware of the low price of BYD's EVs.They're built cheaply and heavily subsidized the Chinese government (like I already said).

 By the way, the rules were finalized by Rump when he came into office. 

All the best,
Nonoise

The problem is I have a sweet tooth and still eat like a kid....

I hear you, @nonoise , me too and the same for an awful lot of us. I am only a few years younger than you, and it wasn’t always like this for me, but now controlling my food cravings are way harder than controlling my cravings for alcohol and illicit use of drugs ever was. A low dose of a statin got my cholesterol in the way good range, so for me, considering my lack of will power and discipline in my old age, a pill seems to be the answer. I have known people that have told me they maintained a relatively healthy life style (diet and exercise) but still could not keep their LDL within safe parameters, so if what they told me about their lifesryle was true, I’d think they are a victim of the genes that they inherited and a pill may extend their life.

Back after my Mom died in ’92 my Dad pretty much gave up on any semblance of healthy eating, and I used to lecture him from 2000 miles away on the telephone as I was young and into health food and weight lifting and felt real good back then . . . but he took a daily statin and a blood pressure pill and he made it to 90.

It’s a personal choice and I am not going to lecture anyone for whichever way they choose . . . if you can do it without a pharmacolgical intervention, I say more power to you and keep up the good work . . . but if not, not all pills are bad all of the time; they are part of the reason average lifespan has been increasing.