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.

The Step One Foods difference: Part two
Editor's note: Step One Foods was founded by Cardiologist Elizabeth Klodas to create a healthy, convenient and delicious daily food product that can improve your health. You can read about our clinically proven results in lowering cholesterol, or shop our...
Aug 5, 2017
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Aug 5, 2017
The Step One Foods difference: Part two
Editor's note: Step One Foods was founded by Cardiologist Elizabeth Klodas to create a healthy, convenient and delicious daily food product that...
Jul 29, 2017
The Step One Foods difference: Part one
When you eat a Step One Foods® Dark Chocolate Crunch Bar or a bowl of Blueberry Oatmeal, you might not taste the...
Jul 22, 2017
Some Plant-Based Diets May Increase Heart Disease Risk
Huh? After all, isn’t Step One Foods the champion of plant based diets? And isn’t Step One plant based? We are. And...
Jul 14, 2017
The importance of the Purity Protocol
You already know that Step One Foods is a first-of-its-kind line of cardiologist-formulated foods specifically designed to help lower cholesterol and support...
Jul 1, 2017
Wall Street Journal exposes why there's a need for Step O...
A recent story in the Wall Street Journal really underscores the need for products (and companies) like Step One Foods. The main...
Jun 24, 2017
Could You Have Heart Disease? Just Look in the Mirror. (P...
In the first part of this blog series, we discussed five clues that could indicate heart disease. Now, we’ll look at the...
Jun 16, 2017
Could you have heart disease? Just look in the mirror. ...
Looking in the mirror is something that we do routinely. In fact, some studies suggest we may examine our reflection close to...
May 20, 2017
Where Does All the Sodium in Your Diet Actually Come From?
Updated July 2026 If you're eating too much sodium, and you almost certainly are, the culprit probably isn't your salt shaker. The...
May 13, 2017
How to eat gluten free for your heart’s health
This month, an article I wrote was published in Gluten Free Living magazine. The piece delves into the increased risk of heart...
May 6, 2017
Why all the fuss about GMOs?
A GMO, or genetically modified organism, is a plant, animal, bacteria or virus whose genetic makeup has been modified using gene splicing. This...
Apr 29, 2017
How Do You Lengthen Your Telomeres?
Updated July 2026 Telomeres are one of the most fascinating windows we have into aging, and one of the few we can...
Apr 15, 2017
Breakfast of Champions
This week’s blog was inspired by my son. On Wednesday, he sent me a link to a really well done YouTube video put...
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