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.
Food vs drugs
When it comes to treating - or preventing - heart disease, we rely primarily on medications to get the job done. Because clinical trials inform us about how much risk we are eliminating by prescribing pills. But this pill-centric approach...
May 18, 2018
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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...
Apr 27, 2018
This problem is bigger than I thought...
One of the more surprising developments of the past 2 weeks has been the sheer number of people who have come by...
Apr 21, 2018
“Why didn’t somebody think of this before? It’s so obvious!”
That was the comment we heard from a customer who stopped by our production facility to pick up his order. He was...
Apr 7, 2018
“Unfortunate paradox”
That’s the summary of findings of a recent study – that found that when expert, high volume stent-implanting cardiologists are away at...
Mar 23, 2018
Is it heart pain or just heartburn?
The signals our body sends us can be confusing. And if the signal is coming from your chest, the stakes are high...
Feb 17, 2018
How to get rid of high blood pressure for good
Most high blood pressure is referred to as “essential” – because there is no one single factor that can be identified as...
Feb 10, 2018
5 reasons you should feel good about eating dark chocolate
The average American consumes about 12 pounds of chocolate per year. That’s a lot of M&Ms. Unfortunately, the potential health benefits of...
Feb 3, 2018
5 surprising foods that are bad for your heart
We all know that cheeseburgers, sugary sodas, candy and deep fried foods are bad for us. But here are 5 foods you...
Jan 20, 2018
Lipoprotein A: What is it and why you should be tested f...
Not all cholesterol risk is explained by LDL (bad) cholesterol levels. It turns out there’s another factor that impacts the significance of...
Nov 25, 2017
If you didn’t have high blood pressure before, you do now
The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association just released their new blood pressure treatment guidelines. The biggest change? What...
Nov 11, 2017
Stents don’t work.
Editor's Note: Portions of this blog were originally published in 2017. Four years later and with more data the blog title still...
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