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.
How to lower LDL
LDL (low density lipoprotein) cholesterol is the cholesterol that's parking in your arteries and causing blockages to build up. It is also the cholesterol which is toxic to the lining of your arteries (the endothelium), increasing the risk of a...
Oct 17, 2020
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Oct 17, 2020
How to lower LDL
LDL (low density lipoprotein) cholesterol is the cholesterol that's parking in your arteries and causing blockages to build up. It is also...
Oct 10, 2020
How to Raise Your High Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Le...
HDL, high density lipoprotein, is the good cholesterol. This is the particle that's moving cholesterol out of your body - so it's...
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 interpret your cholesterol test results
When you get a cholesterol test back, you’re typically given 4 numbers: The total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and triglycerides. Here’s...
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...
Aug 4, 2020
Why Fad Diets Don’t Work
How successful was the last diet you tried? Based on our experience and research, the answer is probably, “not very!” We’ve all...
Jul 18, 2020
Why foods that seem healthy may be making you sick... ing...
By Dr. Elizabeth Klodas Walk into a grocery store and just try to find a packaged food that doesn’t contain some sort...
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?
A 2019 study found that statins can markedly help a specific population of children. I highlighted those keywords because this “specific population”...
Nov 9, 2019
Want to Boost Your Gut Health? Try Prebiotics
In the world of nutrition research, the gut microbiome is a hot topic. Thousands of studies have analyzed the role of good...
Sep 6, 2019
What are the disadvantages of a Keto diet?
If you’ve ever attempted to lose weight, chances are you’ve at least been intrigued by the keto diet. Short for “ketogenic,” the...
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