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.
Heart-Healthy Ways to Celebrate the Dad in Your Life
Updated July 2026 The best gift you can give the dad in your life is the gift of health. It's a little hard to wrap, but it's the one that keeps giving, because for most men, especially men old enough...
Jun 18, 2022
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Jun 18, 2022
Heart-Healthy Ways to Celebrate the Dad in Your Life
Updated July 2026 The best gift you can give the dad in your life is the gift of health. It's a little...
Jun 3, 2022
How To Improve Heart Health and Prostate Health Through Diet
As a cardiologist, I developed Step One Foods to help my patients eat better to lower their cholesterol and improve heart health....
May 7, 2022
Heart Disease Is a Woman's Disease
Updated July 2026 If you had to guess, which kills more women: breast cancer or heart disease? The answer is heart disease,...
Apr 23, 2022
VIDEO: The true cost of heart disease
By 2035, we'll spend close to $1.1 trillion treating heart disease, but almost all of these dollars will go toward reactive care, like medications...
Apr 19, 2022
VIDEO: Reality Check
Did you know that the average Medicare recipient is currently consuming an average of 1620 prescribed pills a year? Those pills are...
Jan 1, 2022
Step One's resolution for 2022: Joy
Every year I try to make a New Year’s resolution for myself and I invite you to come along with me. As...
Nov 6, 2021
Why Men Should Talk About Health More
Although men are at no less risk of heart disease than women, I see women in my cardiology practice much more often...
May 22, 2021
Of Sneakers and Savings
If you’re a patient of mine or a faithful reader of this blog, you know how passionate I am about improving your...
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....
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...
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
Updated July 2026 In nutrition research, the gut microbiome is one of the hottest topics going, with thousands of studies examining the...
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