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.
Cholesterol is NOT a Myth
You should never view high cholesterol and the impact it has on your heart and vascular health as a joke. At Step One, we sometimes get feedback from naysayers about how cholesterol is a “myth” and that it’s not “real”,...
Feb 11, 2023
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Feb 11, 2023
Cholesterol is NOT a Myth
You should never view high cholesterol and the impact it has on your heart and vascular health as a joke. At Step...
Jan 28, 2023
What if your doctor has never heard of Step One Foods?
Too often, routine checkup visits for older adults result in premature or unwanted prescriptions for statins. Of course, medications do have a...
Nov 18, 2022
What causes high LDL cholesterol?
Given the title, you might think this blog is going to be all about the lifestyle factors that cause levels of LDL...
Sep 30, 2022
You’ve nailed step one. So…what’s step two?
The Start of Step One Foods Have you ever wondered why the company I founded is called “Step One Foods”? The name...
May 31, 2022
VIDEO: Being Prescribed Your First Statin Medication
Getting your first statin prescription can be incredibly emotional experience. Dr. Klodas shares how you can approach this and what other options you have. ...
May 21, 2022
Women get heart attacks too
News flash: A heart attack does not always look or feel like the classic Hollywood portrayal. The patient may not clutch his...
May 7, 2022
Heart disease is a woman’s disease
If you had to guess, which kills more women: breast cancer or heart disease? The answer is heart disease…by a landslide....
Apr 23, 2022
VIDEO: The true cost of heart disease
By 2035, we'll spend close to $1.1 trillion treating heart disease, but almost all of these dollars will go toward reactive care, like medications...
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...
Mar 26, 2022
Prescribed statins but not taking them? Here’s why you sh...
For a variety of reasons, a substantial proportion of seniors -- 37%, according to this study -- with high cholesterol choose not...
Mar 19, 2022
Are your muscle pains from statins…or the nocebo effect?
You’ve probably heard of the placebo effect: the phenomenon in which people feel better if they think they’ve been given a drug,...
Mar 12, 2022
Cholesterol absorber or cholesterol producer...which one ...
LDL (bad) cholesterol levels in the blood are determined predominantly by two very different biochemical pathways. And depending upon which one is...
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