Keeping metabolic syndrome at bay
From Las Vegas, at a meeting of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine
Chromium supplements might stave off the life-shortening effects of metabolic syndrome, a condition that can lead to diabetes and heart disease.
People with metabolic syndrome have high blood sugar levels and high blood pressure, among other health problems. The syndrome mostly occurs in sedentary older adults who eat high-calorie diets.
Harry G. Preuss, a nutrition specialist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and his colleagues gave chromium supplements to 12 rats belonging to a strain with a strong tendency to develop metabolic syndrome. The researchers used a form of chromium called niacin-bound chromium (NBC), which absorbs more readily into the blood than some other commercially available chromium supplements.