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 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 deaths in the United States! The scale of human suffering due to cardiovascular disease is truly staggering. But...
Apr 2, 2022
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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...
Mar 15, 2022
Ruth's Step One Success Story
With a family history of hyperlipidemia, which is a condition in which your blood has too many lipids such as cholesterol and...
Mar 12, 2022
Are You a Cholesterol Absorber or a Cholesterol Producer?
Updated July 2026 Your LDL cholesterol is set by different biochemical pathways — and which one dominates in you determines whether a...
Mar 5, 2022
Prescribed a Statin but Not Taking It? Here's What to Do
Updated July 2026 Statins can be life-saving for the right person, but a striking number of people who are prescribed one never...
Mar 1, 2022
Statins: How They Work, Who Needs One, and the Side Effects
Updated July 2026 Statins are the most widely prescribed cholesterol lowering medications in the world, and also some of the most feared...
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...
Feb 18, 2022
Hold the Butter…Pass the Olive Oil!
Updated July 2026 Fat gets a bad rap, but your body needs it to function. The catch is that some fats are...
Feb 15, 2022
Bill's Step One success story
Like many people, during the pandemic, Bill gained weight and during his annual visit with his doctor last April, two medications were...
Feb 12, 2022
Sex and heart disease
Sexual activity is an important component of life and fits right in with this year’s theme of joy. And sex yields many...
Feb 5, 2022
Pig-to-human heart transplant: Incredible medical advanc...
For the first time ever, a human seems to have successfully received a heart transplant…from a pig! It’s great news for the...
Jan 29, 2022
Step One Foods Achieves Major Milestone
On January 26th, 2022 the clinical trial evaluating Step One Foods was published in the Journal of Nutrition. The paper is titled...
Jan 11, 2022
Carolyn's Step One success story
Two years ago, Carolyn was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Shortly after that diagnoses, she was also informed by her physician that her...
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