Talk:Chromium deficiency

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The whole "glucose tolerance factor" thing seems to have been abandoned as a serious line of enquiry many years ago. Why are we still giving it so much weight? This was the subject of an edit war in diabetes mellitus a while ago. JFW | T@lk 07:20, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My guess: this is fringe science

The article assumes that a biological role for Cr is established, when in fact the so-called problem of chromium deficiency is probably a construct of the marketers of nutritional supplements. Biochemically, the topic appears to be either unimportant and flimsy, based on the lack of references. I cant find much on beneficial bio-Cr either.--Smokefoot (talk) 16:55, 16 February 2008 (UTC)