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.
High blood pressure just might be optional
This weeks blog is adapted from a post by Dr. Michael Greger on nutritionfacts.org. I found the information so compelling, I felt I needed to share it. Dr. Greger makes a good argument that high blood pressure just might be...
Oct 21, 2017
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Oct 21, 2017
High blood pressure just might be optional
This weeks blog is adapted from a post by Dr. Michael Greger on nutritionfacts.org. I found the information so compelling, I felt...
Oct 7, 2017
Should you have that glass of wine?
You’ve heard it before – a glass of wine with dinner is good for your heart … is this true? Well, hold...
Sep 9, 2017
What’s TMAO and why do you want less of it?
When people ingest certain nutrients like choline (abundant in red meat, egg yolks, and dairy products) and L-carnitine (found in red meat...
Aug 12, 2017
The Step One Foods difference: Real results, not just mar...
If you’ve been following the blog for the past two weeks, then you’ve already read about what makes our products different and...
Jul 29, 2017
The Step One Foods difference: Part one
When you eat a Step One Foods® Dark Chocolate Crunch Bar or a bowl of Blueberry Oatmeal, you might not taste the...
Jul 1, 2017
Wall Street Journal exposes why there's a need for Step O...
A recent story in the Wall Street Journal really underscores the need for products (and companies) like Step One Foods. The main...
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 To Lengthen Telomeres with a Plant-based Diet
What are telomeres? Chromosomes are thread-like structures of DNA that contain all our genetic information. Telomeres are regions of repetitive DNA at...
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 –...
Mar 18, 2017
Here come the ads for Repatha®
If you have high cholesterol, you need to know about the results of Amgen's Repatha® study. Highly anticipated by cardiologists and insurers, the trial...
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