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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) 17be made based on human studies. Humans appear to lack sign <strong>of</strong> Cr deficiency witha daily intake <strong>of</strong> 30 g Cr (vide infra). Assuming an average body mass <strong>of</strong> 60 kg, thiscorresponds to 0.5 g/kg body mass. Given the typical daily food intake <strong>of</strong> a rat, thiscorresponds to rats eating a diet with a dry weight composition <strong>of</strong> ∼3 g/kg food. Giventhis, none <strong>of</strong> the so-called “low-Cr” diets are actually low in Cr, even if rats requireten times the daily quantity <strong>of</strong> Cr as humans. Thus, these studies apparently provide nodata on the effects <strong>of</strong> chromium deficiency. However, they do provide some conflictingdata on the effects <strong>of</strong> pharmacological doses <strong>of</strong> Cr on rats under a variety <strong>of</strong> conditions.Fortunately, better controlled and performed studies on rats in the last 10 years arehelping to clarify the situation.Human<strong>The</strong> studies with rats indicate the difficulty in generating chromium deficiency;great care – such as feeding purified diets with

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