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.
Managing risk
Last week I wrote about what I saw as a giant deficiency in the new Cholesterol Guidelines. Namely, the absence of specific, detailed instructions on how to help patients succeed at the hardest part of their treatment plan – nutrition....
Nov 24, 2018
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Nov 24, 2018
Managing risk
Last week I wrote about what I saw as a giant deficiency in the new Cholesterol Guidelines. Namely, the absence of specific,...
Nov 17, 2018
Cholesterol guidelines and throw away lines
At this year’s American Heart Association conference, new guidelines for the management of cholesterol were unveiled in a giant hall packed with...
Nov 2, 2018
Dr. Klodas discusses how food can lower cholesterol and i...
Oct 27, 2018
Should You Take a Vitamin D Supplement?
Updated July 2026 The short version: for most people with normal levels, a vitamin D pill does surprisingly little, but there's a...
Sep 22, 2018
The shifting sands on aspirin use
Since I last wrote about this topic, important data was added to our understanding about using aspirin to help prevent cardiovascular events...
Aug 31, 2018
If your family has a history of heart disease, here's wha...
This week we tried something new at Step One Foods. We created an educational talk followed by a live Q&A session that...
Aug 24, 2018
Nutrition: A major missing component in medical school cu...
As a Mayo Clinic and John Hopkins trained cardiologist, I completed over 80,000 hours of instruction to become a physician. Those 80,000...
Aug 10, 2018
What to eat for better skin
When I ask my patients what goal they have for their health, most say they want to feel - and look -better....
Jul 14, 2018
What doctors don't learn in medical school
Recently, I presented a talk titled “What they don’t teach cardiologists in medical school.” Here's a video recording of that talk: As it...
Jul 6, 2018
Should You Take a Daily Aspirin?
Updated July 2026 It's one of the most common questions I hear, and the honest answer has changed in recent years. Aspirin...
May 18, 2018
Food vs drugs
When it comes to treating - or preventing - heart disease, we rely primarily on medications to get the job done. Because...
May 5, 2018
The problem with numbers
"Know your numbers." That’s the advice we get from patient advocacy groups like the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association, and...
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