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Can Chromium Supplements Help You Lose Weight?

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    People have researched whether chromium supplements can help treat diabetes, lower blood lipid levels and encourage weight loss but the prospect of a miracle pill to help with dieting, whether it might contain chromium or not, is still a long way off.

    Chromium acts in the body to enhance the function of insulin, the hormone that gets glucose inside cells where it can be used in respiration as a fuel to obtain energy. In Type II diabetes, the form of diabetes that starts after about the age of 40 and that is associated with a decline in function of the pancreas, chromium supplements might help. It has been suggested that chromium might bolster the lower levels of insulin produced in the early stages of Type II diabetes.

    In some studies, chromium supplements have been found to decrease total and low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the 'bad' form of cholesterol and also triglyeride levels in the blood and to increase high density lipoprotein (HDL), the 'good' form of cholesterol. However, other studies have shown no effect. Similarly, studies on whether chromium supplements decreased body fat and increased muscle mass were generally inconclusive and produced conflicting results.

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