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.
Fuel Your Fitness: Optimizing Workout Nutrition
Getting and staying fit is a cornerstone of heart health and healthy longevity. As important as working out and staying fit is, we know it’s not always easy. But with a few simple tweaks to your diet, you can get...
Apr 8, 2017
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Apr 8, 2017
Fuel Your Fitness: Optimizing Workout Nutrition
Getting and staying fit is a cornerstone of heart health and healthy longevity. As important as working out and staying fit is,...
Mar 31, 2017
Eat your way to a healthy heart
If someone told you that you could eat your way to a healthy heart, would you believe them? Well, you should, because...
Mar 25, 2017
The world’s cleanest arteries
If you scour the globe, you can still find groups of people living as they have for many hundreds of years –...
Mar 11, 2017
NBC Nightly News confirms Step One Foods mission
This week, NBC News highlighted a study demonstrating that nearly HALF of all deaths related to heart disease, stroke and diabetes can be attributed to...
Jan 28, 2017
What Does "Eat Food, Not Too Much, Mostly Plants" Actuall...
Updated July 2026 With seven words, Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food, captured the best dietary advice you will ever...
Jan 21, 2017
To cure the patient, treat the cause of disease
The recent Chicago Tribune article highlighted our mission - to help people reduce their reliance on statins and other prescription medications...through food. ...
Jan 14, 2017
Can You Lose Weight by Eating More, Not Less?
Updated July 2026 Almost every weight-loss goal comes with an unspoken assumption: to lose weight, you have to eat less. I'd like...
Jan 11, 2017
How Do Step One Foods Products Taste | Heart Healthy Foods
It's a question we often get asked. After all, if it’s healthy, it must taste like cardboard, right? Other products taste like...
Dec 10, 2016
Holiday survival tips
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – unless you’re trying to eat healthfully. It happens every year. We focus on...
Nov 19, 2016
It's Time to Put Prevention Back into Preventive Healthcare
This blog is a reprint of an OpEd from Dr. Klodas, appearing in the Minneapolis StarTribune in November 2016. The U.S. Preventive Services Task...
Nov 12, 2016
John R.'s Step One Foods Story: An athlete who improved L...
July 2012 "I'm an athlete who watches my diet closely, so I was shocked when my annual physician revealed that my LDL...
Nov 11, 2016
Susan C.'s Step One Story - A Step One Foods Grand Slam
March 2016 "I have had high cholesterol for several years and cannot take statins due to the muscle and joint pain they...
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