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 I tell my patients: High blood pressure (Part 1)
High blood pressure is extremely common. According to the Centers for Disease Control nearly half of adults in the United States have hypertension. What's worse is that only about 1 in 4 adults with hypertension have their condition under control....
Apr 30, 2021
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Apr 30, 2021
What I tell my patients: High blood pressure (Part 1)
High blood pressure is extremely common. According to the Centers for Disease Control nearly half of adults in the United States have...
Apr 10, 2021
What I tell my patients: What if you’re not a food respo...
As you might imagine, as a cardiologist who prides herself on addressing heart disease risk factors through modifying lifestyle before resorting to...
Mar 27, 2021
Another Step One success, this time very close to home
My husband has struggled with weight probably his entire life. And I’ve been witness to that struggle for nearly 35 years. It’s...
Mar 13, 2021
What I tell my patients: How I explain heart disease
Coronary arteries are the small (slightly bigger than cooked spaghetti noodles) blood vessels which provide the heart muscle with its own blood...
Feb 20, 2021
Step One survey shows doctors don’t talk about diet
The results are in from our first-ever survey about the healthcare you receive, and, not surprisingly, it shows you are just as...
Feb 13, 2021
When the doctor becomes the patient: Lessons learned
This blog post was originally posted in 2021. If you missed my Facebook LIVE chat this week, you probably don't know that a...
Jan 22, 2021
Who Should Be on a Statin?
Updated July 2026 I started a company that makes food to help lower cholesterol, but I still prescribe statins because some people...
Jan 9, 2021
What I tell my patients: The first visit
When I see a patient for the very first time, I like to spend an hour getting to know them. Not just...
Dec 12, 2020
Diet impacts heart health even in teens
Just how much ultra-processed food can one teen eat? More than some of us consume in a year, apparently! Preliminary research shows...
Nov 14, 2020
Two birds, one stone: When you eat well for your heart, y...
Now that we’ve defined what a heart-healthy diet is, it’s probably easy to see how the benefits of a plant-based approach might...
Oct 24, 2020
How Do You Lower Your Triglyceride Levels?
Updated July 2026 Of all the numbers on a standard cholesterol panel, triglycerides may be the most responsive to what you do....
Oct 17, 2020
How to Lower LDL
Updated July 2026 LDL, or low-density lipoprotein, is the cholesterol that parks in your arteries and builds up into blockages. It is...
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