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.
Could You Have Heart Disease? Just Look in the Mirror. (Part Two)
In the first part of this blog series, we discussed five clues that could indicate heart disease. Now, we’ll look at the last four clues that could also signal that something may not be right with your heart. Clue...
Jun 24, 2017
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Jun 24, 2017
Could You Have Heart Disease? Just Look in the Mirror. (P...
In the first part of this blog series, we discussed five clues that could indicate heart disease. Now, we’ll look at the...
Jun 16, 2017
Could you have heart disease? Just look in the mirror. ...
Looking in the mirror is something that we do routinely. In fact, some studies suggest we may examine our reflection close to...
May 13, 2017
How to eat gluten free for your heart’s health
This month, an article I wrote was published in Gluten Free Living magazine. The piece delves into the increased risk of heart...
Apr 29, 2017
How Do You Lengthen Your Telomeres?
Updated July 2026 Telomeres are one of the most fascinating windows we have into aging, and one of the few we can...
Mar 25, 2017
The world’s cleanest arteries
If you scour the globe, you can still find groups of people living as they have for many hundreds of years –...
Nov 19, 2016
It's Time to Put Prevention Back into Preventive Healthcare
This blog is a reprint of an OpEd from Dr. Klodas, appearing in the Minneapolis StarTribune in November 2016. The U.S. Preventive Services Task...
Oct 1, 2016
Food confirmed to be as good as medications in the fight ...
It turns out that lowering your cholesterol with food is just as powerful as statin drugs at lowering your cardiovascular risk. That...
Aug 5, 2016
Statin Side Effects: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You
Statins are valuable for many people, but several of their most common side effects went underreported for years. A cardiologist explains muscle...
Jul 22, 2016
“Remember … Only YOU can prevent strokes.”
Do you recall the old Smokey the Bear ads about preventing forest fires? The Smokey campaign, created in 1944, focused on forest...
May 20, 2016
What Does Drinking Soda Do to Your Body?
Updated July 2026 Soda is the drink of choice for millions of Americans — about 40 gallons per person a year, nearly...
May 6, 2016
Medical Errors are the Third Leading Cause of Death in th...
If medical errors were classified as a disease, they would rank among the deadliest conditions in America. A sobering report revealed that...
Apr 29, 2016
We Already Know How to Eliminate Heart Disease
Around the globe, nearly 7 million people die of coronary heart disease each year. And that number keeps going up despite continuing...
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