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.
5 Things You Need to Know About Belly Fat
Updated July 2026 If there's one thing most people have absorbed about belly fat, it's that it's bad. And they're right. But visceral fat, the deep abdominal fat behind a "beer belly" or an apple-shaped body, is more dangerous, and...
Jul 27, 2019
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Jul 27, 2019
5 Things You Need to Know About Belly Fat
Updated July 2026 If there's one thing most people have absorbed about belly fat, it's that it's bad. And they're right. But...
Jul 20, 2019
Working Out and Not Losing Weight? Here's Why
Updated July 2026 Picture this: you wake up early, get in a great sweat at the gym, hit the showers, then grab...
Jul 13, 2019
You Might Not Need Statins After All
Updated July 2026 Been told you need a statin and wondering whether it is the right move for you? You are not...
Jul 6, 2019
How Are Heart Health and Brain Health Related?
Updated July 2026 As a cardiologist, I spend my days focused on the heart: its arteries, its valves, its pumping function, its...
Jun 29, 2019
Video: The food industry is misleading consumers
Are those healthy snacks in your pantry actually healthy? Determining the true health benefits of the hundreds of food options you see...
Jun 15, 2019
When it comes to health, Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat...
Several months back I was traveling in California with friends and we stopped at a popular roadside burger spot. And I was...
Jun 8, 2019
Tastes can change
Many patients tell me they dislike certain foods. Some of this is genetic. For example, scientists have identified the genetic SNP (single...
Jun 1, 2019
Inflammation and Heart Risk: Should You Get Your CRP Chec...
Updated July 2026 Most people track their cholesterol. Far fewer have ever heard of the blood test that can flag heart risk...
May 25, 2019
How to Measure Your Blood Pressure at Home
Updated July 2026 Checking your blood pressure at home is one of the most useful things you can do to manage it...
May 18, 2019
TAVR and Aortic Stenosis: What You Need to Know
Updated July 2026 When a public figure in their seventies bounces back from heart surgery quickly enough to be dancing on stage...
May 11, 2019
Could a Common Food Preservative Cause You to Develop Dia...
Updated July 2026 More than 400 million people worldwide have diabetes, and the rate at which people are developing it keeps accelerating....
May 3, 2019
Can Your LDL Cholesterol Be Too Low?
Updated July 2026 With cholesterol guidelines pushing LDL targets lower than ever, it's fair to wonder whether there's a floor, a point...
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