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Chromium

Main Ingredients:   Chromium (AKA: Chromium Picolinate)

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Famous People with Diabetes
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Halle Berry

In 1989 Halle was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.

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Randy Jackson

In 2001, weighing in at 355 lbs., Randy Jackson was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

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Nick Jonas

Wildly popular singer-songwriter, drummer and guitarist Nick Jonas, of Jonas Brothers fame, has figured out how to manage his type 1 diabetes.

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Edward James Olmos

The star of Miami Vice and Battlestar Gallactica is notable for NOT having diabetes—despite a strong genetic predisposition.

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Brittany Murphy

Thirty-two year old actress dies from cardiac arrest. She had type 2 diabetes and a thyroid condition, and it has been rumored that she also had a drug problem.

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Bret Michaels

Bret Michaels, frontman for glam metal band Poison,has had to learn how to manage his Type I diabetes during the insanity of touring.

About Chromium
Trivalent chromium (Cr(III) or Cr3+) is required in trace amounts for sugar and lipid metabolism in humans, and its deficiency may cause a disease called chromium deficiency. In contrast, hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI) or Cr6+) is very toxic and mutagenic when inhaled. Cr(VI) has not been established as a carcinogen when in solution, though it may cause allergic contact dermatitis (ACD). The use of chromium-containing dietary supplements is controversial due to the complex effects of the used supplements. The popular dietary supplement chromium picolinate complex generates chromosome damage in hamster cells. In the United States the dietary guidelines for daily chromium uptake were lowered from 50-200 µg for an adult to 35 µg (adult male) and to 25 µg (adult female). In a review of trials it was again concluded that chromium supplements had no effect on healthy people, but that there might be an improvement in glucose metabolism in diabetics, although the authors stated that the evidence for this effect remains weak. However, opinions differ on this conclusion, a review published in 2006 argued that these data instead supported the clinical efficacy of chromium picolinate for the treatment of diabetes. In 2006, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration stated that the "relationship between chromium picolinate intake and insulin resistance is highly uncertain".

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