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.
Alan's Step One Success Story
At 66 years old, Alan works full-time and has no plans on slowing down anytime soon. That’s why his wife suggested that he visit her cardiologist just to be safe. “I didn’t have any known (major) health issues, but my...
Aug 17, 2021
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Aug 17, 2021
Alan's Step One Success Story
At 66 years old, Alan works full-time and has no plans on slowing down anytime soon. That’s why his wife suggested that...
Apr 14, 2021
How to Track Your Progress
At Step One Foods we know it’s the small sustained changes that really count – and that may have a dramatic impact...
Dec 12, 2020
Diet impacts heart health even in teens
Just how much ultra-processed food can one teen eat? More than some of us consume in a year, apparently! Preliminary research shows...
Nov 14, 2020
Two birds, one stone: When you eat well for your heart, y...
Now that we’ve defined what a heart-healthy diet is, it’s probably easy to see how the benefits of a plant-based approach might...
Oct 24, 2020
How Do You Lower Your Triglyceride Levels?
Updated July 2026 Of all the numbers on a standard cholesterol panel, triglycerides may be the most responsive to what you do....
Oct 17, 2020
How to Lower LDL
Updated July 2026 LDL, or low-density lipoprotein, is the cholesterol that parks in your arteries and builds up into blockages. It is...
Oct 8, 2020
Everything You Need to Know About Diet and Heart Health
If you're new to Step One Foods, here is a collection of Dr. Klodas' blogs to get you started! The problem:...
Oct 3, 2020
How to Read Your Cholesterol Test Results
Updated July 2026 A standard cholesterol test — the lipid panel — comes back with four numbers: total cholesterol, HDL, LDL, and...
Aug 15, 2020
Why insurers should pay for you to eat better
We live in a strange world. In today’s health care system, we are encouraged to take heavily subsidized medications to cover up...
Jul 11, 2020
Is butter back... again? The truth about saturated fat
A new meta-analysis contends that limiting dietary saturated fat does nothing for reducing heart disease events or for heart disease prevention. The...
Feb 15, 2020
What you need to know about cholesterol
Cholesterol remains one of the most confusing areas of both nutrition and heart health. So I’ll break it all down for you...
Nov 15, 2019
Should You Worry About Your Child's Cholesterol?
Updated July 2026 Cholesterol feels like an adult problem, so most parents are surprised to learn it's worth checking in childhood at...
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