Category Archives: Chromium

Over 90 % of Westerners Deficient in Chromium

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Robert Barrington
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Chromium Helps Builds Lean Mass in Female Weight Trainers

Posted on February 16, 2016 by Robert Barrington

Weight loss occurs with low energy diets and this weight loss includes large amounts, perhaps as high as 50 %, of skeletal muscle. As skeletal muscle determines resting metabolic rate, this loss of skeletal muscle reduces the resting metabolic rate … Continue reading →

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Roughly 50 Essential Factors

Posted on January 30, 2016 by Robert Barrington
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Cinnamon And Insulin Resistance

Posted on January 29, 2016 by Robert Barrington

Chromium appears to potentiate the effects of insulin is some way and this improves insulin sensitivity. If it is true that chromium is effective at improving insulin sensitivity, and by extension, reversing insulin resistance, it would be logical to assume … Continue reading →

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Chromium And Insulin Resistance

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Robert Barrington

Chromium is a trace mineral in human nutrition. That means it is essential for health in microgram amounts. Meat fish, cheese and poultry are considered good animal sources of chromium, and spinach, chocolate and pepper also are said to contain … Continue reading →

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Minerals: More Deficiencies, More Evidence Supplements Are Needed

Posted on July 8, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Many experts, particularly medical doctors, claim that dietary supplements of micronutrients are not necessary. It is often claimed by such experts that we ‘get all the vitamins in we need in foods and any additional nutrients simply give us expensive … Continue reading →

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Chromium Levels During Pregnancy

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Chromium is an important trace mineral in human nutrition. chromium deficiency leads to insulin resistance in mammals, and this may relate to the role that chromium plays in the function of the insulin system. Originally it was thought that chromium … Continue reading →

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Insulin Sensitivity: The Chromium Link

Posted on January 1, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Rats fed low chromium diets develop problems with their blood sugar including hyperglycaemia. Feeding such rats high chromium yeast reverses the metabolic dysfunction and returns blood sugar control to normal. Since the first discovery of chromium as an essential component … Continue reading →

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Chromium Metabolism

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Robert Barrington

Chromium is an essential trace mineral required for the correct function of the insulin receptor. In this regard chromium plays an important role in glucose metabolism. Increasingly it is being recognised that the Western diet supplies insufficient chromium for optimal … Continue reading →

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Chromium Metabolism And Exercise (In The Rat)

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Robert Barrington

Trivalent chromium is an essential element in humans and other mammals. Dietary chromium is absorbed from food and then must be converted to its active form, the glucose tolerance factor (GTF) chromium. The active form of chromium is required for … Continue reading →

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