From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2002-09-28 19:34:28 UTC
Subject: chromium may NOT help with diabetes
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com, ferret-list@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Message-Id: <p05111702b9bbb30655b0@[10.0.1.47]>
Diabetes in ferrets is rare, but we all know, esp. after Ulrike's
recent letters, it sometimes happens.
In the September 2002 issue of "Tufts University Health and Nutrition
Letter" on page 2 is an article titled "Chromium to Treat Diabetes"
telling how an NIH review of 15 studies (involving more than 600
people) on chromium used to treat diabetes found that taken as a
while the studies did not find any clear link between chromium and
blood sugar, either in people who already have diabetes or those
hoping to prevent it. Detail such as names were not given so those
wanting such details will need to check with the NIH at
http://www.nih.gov/ though it is not on that website as of this
writing.
Because the results seen in testing were very variable when chromium
was tried in these studies people will want to be extra careful
about testing. There are past posts by Pam Sessoms which can be
found in the FHL Archives http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/ and a great
write up at http://www.unc.edu/~pjdutche/bloodsugar/ to teach how to
do this testing at home.