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.
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 of death in the United States. Yet again. Actually, not much of a surprise. It’s been like this...
Dec 8, 2018
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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...
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
New research shows that Vitamin D supplements are ineffe...
In a previous blog, I discussed how ineffective daily supplements are. That's because a large study had just demonstrated that the four most...
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 20, 2018
4 powerful ways to naturally control blood pressure
If you have high blood pressure, you’re not alone. Under the latest guidelines, nearly one in two American adults has hypertension, defined...
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
Doctor, should I take aspirin?
It’s one of the most common questions I get when I see patients. And the answer is not as straightforward as you...
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