Food Diet and Chromium
There is evidence that a number of common diseases, including cardiovascular disease and maturity-onset or type II diabetes, are related to the foods eaten throughout life.
For example, cholesterol or high fat foods are associated with cardiovascular diseases, and sugar and refined carbohydrate have been associated with maturity-onset diabetes.
However, decreased intake of these foods may only be part of the solution, and an increased intake of trace elements, especially chromium, may also be important in lessening the chances of developing cardiovascular diseases and/or maturity onset diabetes.
Fortunately, dietary improvements, including decreasing dietary intake of fat, cholesterol, sugar and other refined carbohydrates, would be associated with the increased intake of more nutritional foods, including fruits and vegetables that are usually lower in fat, cholesterol, and refined carbohydrates and also often good sources of chromium.
Studies involving humans swell as experimental animals suggest very strongly an association of dietary chromium intake with signs and symptoms associated with cardiovascular disease and maturity onset diabetes but the problems are also amplified by the observation that dietary intake of chromium even by affluent, apparently healthy individuals is suboptimal.
Food Diet and Chromium
