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.
TAVR and Aortic Stenosis: What You Need to Know
Updated July 2026 When a public figure in their seventies bounces back from heart surgery quickly enough to be dancing on stage within weeks, people are understandably amazed. Part of that speedy recovery comes down to a remarkable, minimally invasive...
May 18, 2019
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May 18, 2019
TAVR and Aortic Stenosis: What You Need to Know
Updated July 2026 When a public figure in their seventies bounces back from heart surgery quickly enough to be dancing on stage...
May 3, 2019
Can Your LDL Cholesterol Be Too Low?
Updated July 2026 With cholesterol guidelines pushing LDL targets lower than ever, it's fair to wonder whether there's a floor, a point...
Apr 27, 2019
Could Skipping Breakfast Increase Your Risk of Heart Dise...
Updated July 2026 You've heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and skipping it has become more and...
Apr 19, 2019
Slow medicine
I’m reading a book with the same title as this blog and it has really struck a chord with me. It’s written...
Feb 23, 2019
Heart Attack Rates Are Rising in Young Women
Updated July 2026 A major study on heart attack hospitalizations revealed a startling trend: heart attack rates are increasing significantly among women...
Feb 9, 2019
A New Way to Look at LDL
Updated July 2026 If you've looked into what your LDL number should be and wondered why the targets keep getting lower, the...
Feb 2, 2019
One cardiologist's mission to reduce statin use for chole...
This story was originally published on CNN.com on Monday, January 14, 2019. High cholesterol? Here's a pill. High blood...
Jan 25, 2019
How do you deal with the black hole that is denial?
We received a lot of questions for our last live chat segment both online and via e-mail. And in a couple of weeks...
Jan 19, 2019
Beyond cholesterol
When physicians work with patients to lower cholesterol, it’s not really the cholesterol that’s the main target. Rather, it’s the RISK of...
Jan 5, 2019
Chicken and egg
Are you on so many medications because you feel so sick? Or do you feel so sick because you’re on so many...
Dec 29, 2018
This year's resolution? Fewer medications next year.
The word “resolution” has two different meanings: 1. A firm decision to do something, and 2. The action of solving a problem....
Dec 8, 2018
Heart disease wins. Again.
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) released its health statistic brief this week and reported that heart disease remains the leading cause...
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