Heart Health & Cholesterol Resources
Articles from Dr. Elizabeth Klodas and the Step One Foods team — covering diet & nutrition, heart health, statins, and the science of food as medicine.
What exactly is a heart-healthy diet?
When patients ask me what a heart-healthy diet is, I often repeat my favorite eight words of dietary advice from Michael Pollan: Eat real food, not too much, mostly plants. I stick by that advice 100 percent. Notice that this...
Sep 12, 2020
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Sep 12, 2020
What exactly is a heart-healthy diet?
When patients ask me what a heart-healthy diet is, I often repeat my favorite eight words of dietary advice from Michael Pollan:...
Aug 26, 2020
Can your favorite indulgences be healthy?
When it comes to healthy eating the answer has always been, is now, and always will be Eat food. Not too much....
Jun 27, 2020
Should you eat tofu?
If you’re a faithful reader of this blog, you’ve heard me say one thing loud and clear: Eat real food, not too...
Jun 13, 2020
Eggs, carbs and wine. Why do we get conflicting advice f...
Eat carbs. Whatever you do, don’t eat carbs! Protein, protein, protein. But not if it comes from eggs! Cholesterol in food is...
May 16, 2020
Packaged, not processed: Step One Foods is in a category ...
Processed foods have a well-deserved bad rap. So when people see that our foods come in packages, they sometimes assume Step One...
May 2, 2020
Here’s how to keep your grocery cart full of heart-health...
Before COVID-19, I had never shopped for regular groceries online – I only used the internet to order the occasional specialty item...
Mar 28, 2020
Using Food to Boost Immunity - for Coronavirus and Beyond
Editor's note: Step One Foods was founded by Cardiologist Elizabeth Klodas to create a healthy, convenient and delicious daily food product that...
Mar 14, 2020
New studies reveal other ways plant-based diets help hear...
Two studies about food and the microbiome caught my attention recently: The first one shed new light on the connection between trimethylamine...
Feb 8, 2020
What you need to know about carbs
Lately, we’ve been getting lots of customer questions about the sugar and carb content of our foods. I get it. There's a...
Dec 28, 2019
Want to be younger by this time next year? Read this.
Of course we can’t change our birth dates, but we do have control over many aspects of the aging process. That’s the...
Nov 9, 2019
Want to Boost Your Gut Health? Try Prebiotics
In the world of nutrition research, the gut microbiome is a hot topic. Thousands of studies have analyzed the role of good...
Nov 2, 2019
Your Guide to Deciphering Food Labels
From “natural” to “non-GMO,” food labels can make almost any item in the grocery store appear good for you. But we know...
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