, and after your run. Bon appetit!Protein's first shoutThe runner’s perfect nutritional universe started to come apart in 1992 when a University of Texas exercise physiologist, John Ivy, first challenged King Carb. Ivy and colleagues published a study showing

important marathon-related health risk facing runners everywhere. The history of exercise-associated hyponatremia is closely tied to Dr Tim Noakes, a South African sports medicine expert and author of The Lore of Running. In the 1970s Noakes was a devoted

to help others and loved running. Seven miles later, however, something went horribly wrong.It should have been the best of times for Lucero. The previous week she had defended her doctoral dissertation to become, in effect, Dr Cynthia Lucero

independent study, in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, to show that dark chocolate allows the arteries to expand and carry more blood. The benefit is thought to be due to the chocolate’s flavonols – plant micronutrients, also found in tea