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-Healthy Ways to Celebrate the Dad in Your Life
Updated July 2026 The best gift you can give the dad in your life is the gift of health. It's a little hard to wrap, but it's the one that keeps giving, because for most men, especially men old enough...
Jun 18, 2022
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Jun 18, 2022
Heart-Healthy Ways to Celebrate the Dad in Your Life
Updated July 2026 The best gift you can give the dad in your life is the gift of health. It's a little...
Jun 11, 2022
Live fast. Die fast. It doesn’t always work out that way…
As a cardiologist, I often hear a distinctly male viewpoint about heart disease that goes something like this: “I don’t care much...
Jun 3, 2022
How To Improve Heart Health and Prostate Health Through Diet
As a cardiologist, I developed Step One Foods to help my patients eat better to lower their cholesterol and improve heart health....
May 28, 2022
VIDEO: Women and heart disease
Heart disease is the number 1 killer of women, but it doesn't have to be this way. Heart disease is preventable. Heart disease...
May 21, 2022
Women Get Heart Attacks Too
Updated July 2026 A heart attack does not always look or feel like the classic Hollywood version. The patient may not clutch...
May 13, 2022
Will Hormone Replacement Therapy Hurt Your Heart?
Updated July 2026 For most healthy women under 60, hormone replacement therapy started around the time of menopause does not hurt the...
May 7, 2022
Heart Disease Is a Woman's Disease
Updated July 2026 If you had to guess, which kills more women: breast cancer or heart disease? The answer is heart disease,...
Apr 19, 2022
VIDEO: Reality Check
Did you know that the average Medicare recipient is currently consuming an average of 1620 prescribed pills a year? Those pills are...
Apr 16, 2022
What if insurance covered Step One Foods?
Paid your health insurance bill recently? In the last 10 years, premiums for employer-sponsored insurance plans have risen 47%, according to a...
Apr 9, 2022
Forget Tax Returns, Let’s Give Out Health Returns
It's tax season and next week we all come up against the Federal Income Tax return deadline. Every April we are starkly...
Apr 2, 2022
Heart disease kills. It also costs billions of dollars.
Heart disease kills more Americans than any other health condition. In fact, heart disease and stroke account for ONE THIRD of all...
Feb 26, 2022
Sex and Heart Disease: A Woman's Perspective
Updated July 2026 Heart disease affects women's sexual health, but it's a topic that gets far less research and attention than it...
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