White House Chooses Step One Foods Commitment to Help First Responders Reduce Heart Disease Risk Through Nutrition

Company Joins White House Challenge to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities

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February 27, 2024

/PRNewswire/ — Step One Foods, a cardiologist-led company dedicated to improving cardiometabolic health through nutrition, has been selected as a participant in the White House Challenge to End Hunger and to build healthy communities based on its commitment to helping the country’s 2 million people. first responders reduce their disproportionately high risk of premature, life-threatening, diet-related illnesses. The company’s participation was announced in

Washington

Today.

Step One’s commitment to the White House initiative to end hunger and reduce diet-related disease is designed to help first responders measurably improve their cardiovascular health metrics without having to opt-in lifestyle changes that are costly and difficult to maintain due to the nature of their work.

Firefighters are three times more likely to suffer a cardiovascular event than the rest of the workforce, while law enforcement officers suffer their first heart attack nearly 20 years earlier than the general population. Reducing the heart disease event rates of first responders to those of the general population would not only save lives among first responders, but would also result in 20 billion dollars in health care and lost productivity gains in just five years.

Step One’s ready-to-eat snack bars and quick-prep breakfast mixes are clinically formulated with precise amounts of key nutrients known to block the absorption and reabsorption of cholesterol in the digestive system, reducing actively the amount of cholesterol in the blood. In a randomized clinical trial conducted by the Mayo Clinic and University of Manitoba80% of participants consuming two servings of Step One Foods daily reduced their bad cholesterol in just 30 days.

The first responder program developed by Step One to support the White House Challenge includes:

• Easy access to Step One Foods products
• Delivery of products directly to fire and police stations
• Environmental review of the workplace to identify opportunities to support individual first responder prevention efforts
• Educational materials on heart health and risks for first responders

“First responders take care of us. We need to do a much better job of taking care of them,” said Elizabeth Klodas, MD FACC, founder of Step One Foods. “This commitment allows us to give back in the best way possible: by helping them reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease and allowing them to continue doing the work they love.”

About Step One FoodsStep One Foods’ mission is to reduce diet-related chronic diseases. Proven effectiveness in reducing cardiovascular risk in a randomized controlled clinical trial conducted at the Mayo Clinic and the University of Manitoba, Step One has already helped hundreds of thousands of people measurably improve their cardiovascular health while reducing their reliance on prescription medications. For more information, visit https://steponefoods.com.

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