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The Nutritional Biochemistry of Chromium(III) - Survival-training.info

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Introduction: A history <strong>of</strong> chromium studies (1955–1995) 15suppress cholesterol levels [98]. In the later study, weanling rats were provided a Torulayeast diet containing 50% sucrose [99]. A portion <strong>of</strong> the rats received 5 ppm Cr in theirdrinking water as Cr acetate. After 318 or 322 days <strong>of</strong> treatment, male and female rats,respectively, on Cr had lower serum cholesterol levels, while no effect was observedafter 151 days for the male rats. Female rats were not tested at the earlier time.Some other studies before 1970 are notable. Staub and coworkers found that rats ona high cholesterol diet (added cholesterol and cholic acid) with either sucrose or potatostarch as the carbohydrate source had higher serum cholesterol concentrations than ratson the diets supplemented with 5000 g/kg Cr (chromic acetate) in the drinking water[100]. <strong>The</strong> diet reportedly contained 310 g/kg Cr (sucrose) or 380 g/kg Cr(starch).Similar results had been obtained previously by Schroeder and Balassa, but other metals(Cd, Pb) also elicited a similar effect [101]. Roginski and Mertz examined the effects<strong>of</strong> a high sucrose diet (77% sucrose, 10% soy protein, 8% distilled lard, and vitaminsand minerals) [102, 103]. Rats in plastic cages on the low-Cr diet (

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