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A Colorado running route can change fast. One moment you're settling into a familiar neighborhood loop, and the next you're on the ground with a scraped palm, not entirely sure what clipped you. Knowing what runners should do after a crash matters more now that paths are this crowded, and the…

In my early years as a sports nutritionist, fat was a four-letter word. The mantra Eat fat. get fat scared runners away from consuming any kind of dietary fat. I had to practically beg athletes to include some fat in each meal.

Most runners love chocolate in any form: candy bars, chocolate chip cookies, squares of dark chocolate. Over 60% of all US candy sales are chocolate-based. But how good—or bad—is chocolate for our health? Is it as health-promoting as we want it to be? What about all the sugar and caffeine that comes…