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.
Should You Take Oprah's Advice on Nutrition?
Updated July 2026 Celebrities have always shaped how we eat, and few have shaped it more than Oprah Winfrey, who has talked openly about weight and wellness for decades and, at various points, championed particular diets, programs, and products to...
Jan 25, 2020
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Jan 25, 2020
Should You Take Oprah's Advice on Nutrition?
Updated July 2026 Celebrities have always shaped how we eat, and few have shaped it more than Oprah Winfrey, who has talked...
Jan 18, 2020
10 tips for how to eat healthy on a budget
There’s a pervasive myth out there that healthy foods are prohibitively expensive. I’m here to tell you that the opposite is true...
Jan 11, 2020
Meal Delivery Kits: A Cardiologist's Perspective
Updated July 2026 Meal kits, the weekly boxes of pre-portioned ingredients and recipes from services like HelloFresh, Blue Apron, and Purple Carrot,...
Jan 4, 2020
My New Year’s resolution? To be even younger next year.
In the last blog of 2019, I talked about how changes in diet can help lengthen telomeres, the end-caps on DNA that...
Dec 28, 2019
Want to be younger by this time next year? Read this.
Of course we can’t change our birth dates, but we do have control over many aspects of the aging process. That’s the...
Dec 14, 2019
Grass-fed, Impossible or corn-fed: Which burger is the he...
Q: Which is the healthiest choice: An Impossible Burger, a grass-fed beef burger, or a traditional corn-fed beef burger? A: None of...
Dec 7, 2019
What You Need to Know if You Take Biotin (Vitamin B7)
Updated July 2026 Maybe you've flipped through a magazine and seen ads claiming that taking extra biotin, also known as vitamin B7,...
Nov 30, 2019
Your health is our mission
At this time of the year we are reminded of everything we are grateful for. At Step One Foods, we are grateful...
Nov 23, 2019
Diet and lifestyle beat heart procedures - again
Every cardiologist in America had an eye on Philadelphia last weekend, and it wasn’t for the Eagles-Patriots game. The results of a major...
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...
Nov 9, 2019
Want to Boost Your Gut Health? Try Prebiotics
Updated July 2026 In nutrition research, the gut microbiome is one of the hottest topics going, with thousands of studies examining the...
Nov 2, 2019
Your Guide to Deciphering Food Labels
Updated July 2026 From "natural" to "non-GMO," food labels can make almost anything in the grocery store look good for you, even...
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