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.
Everything You Need to Know About Diet and Heart Health
If you're new to Step One Foods, here is a collection of Dr. Klodas' blogs to get you started! The problem: Doctors aren’t trained in nutrition. There’s an Ayurvedic proverb: When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use....
Oct 8, 2020
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Oct 8, 2020
Everything You Need to Know About Diet and Heart Health
If you're new to Step One Foods, here is a collection of Dr. Klodas' blogs to get you started! The problem:...
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 22, 2020
How to talk to your doctor about Step One Foods
If you have a condition like high cholesterol, you probably know that medications can play an important role in your health....
Aug 15, 2020
Why insurers should pay for you to eat better
We live in a strange world. In today’s health care system, we are encouraged to take heavily subsidized medications to cover up...
Jul 11, 2020
Is butter back... again? The truth about saturated fat
A new meta-analysis contends that limiting dietary saturated fat does nothing for reducing heart disease events or for heart disease prevention. The...
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 20, 2020
Can Physical Activity Predict Your Lifespan?
Updated July 2026 We tend to think of longevity as something written in our genes or measured by expensive tests. But 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...
Apr 25, 2020
Social distance your exercise routine
The coronavirus pandemic can feel frightening, but I hope it hasn’t scared you away from exercise! This may be a critical time...
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...
Mar 7, 2020
Yet another reason to eat smart for your heart
If you’re a regular reader of these blogs, you know that I typically focus on topics that are relevant on an individual...
Feb 22, 2020
What Is Inflammation, and How Does It Affect Your Heart?
Updated July 2026 Inflammation has become one of the most talked-about words in health, and one of the most misunderstood. Some people...
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