Extracts Taken From Interviews Conducted With Christopher C. Barr On The Ability Of Food Grown Chromium To Regulate Blood Sugar
Almost 50 years ago the
mineral chromium was established as an essential nutrient at the federal
offices of the National Institutes of Health by Dr. Klaus Schwarz. It
was precisely for its role in blood sugar metabolism that this trace
element chromium was established as essential.
A molecule named Glucose
Tolerance Factor (GTF) that corrected abnormal sugar metabolism was
found to be composed primarily of the mineral chromium. Dr. Walter
Mertz, then an assistant to Dr. Schwarz, reportedly noted at
that time in 1959 “Type II diabetes is not a disease. It is the lack of a
natural ingredient, known as GTF Chromium.”....
....Chromium works
together with insulin in providing sugar to the cells for energy. If
chromium levels decrease then sugar delivery to the cells from insulin
decrease accordingly.
Modern medical terms
such as “insulin resistance” and “insulin sensitivity” should be
replaced by “gross chromium deficiency”. It is not that insulin is
“resistant” or lacks “sensitivity,” but rather that insulin is lacking a
vital – in fact essential – component for sugar metabolism that is this
mineral chromium.
Insulin is a transport
mechanism. It is like a truck that transports glucose to the cell. At
the cell destination there is an insulin receptor site that is
comparable to a loading dock. This is where the glucose is unloaded and
passed into the cell. Chromium rich GTF molecules are in essence dock
workers that assist the sugar (glucose) from the insulin “truck” at the
insulin receptor site “loading dock” into the cell. If there are less
and less GTF chromium “dock workers” then the work of providing sugar to
the cells for energy slows and becomes unproductive. A traffic jam of
insulin “trucks” in the blood stream results in higher and higher levels
of blood sugar as the problem of chromium deficiency increases with the
passing of time.....
....Whole wheat and raw sugar from sugar cane are rich in chromium. The
refining of whole wheat into bleached, white flour removes 91 per cent
of that chromium. The refining of raw sugar into white sugar removes 98
per cent of that chromium.
The refined flour and
refined sugar are quickly reduced in the body into simple sugars that
require chromium to be efficiently metabolized – chromium that is
substantially no longer there. The most important component for your
body to use the refined flour and refined sugar is very nearly entirely
removed. This turns foods wholly good for you into those which are
essentially unholy foods to you.....
...Quite literally every time you consume a refined, white flour or refined, white sugar product your body loses chromium....
....Dr. Henry Alfred
Schroeder, M.D., Ph.D., graduate of Columbia and Yale, and professor at
Dartmouth medical school wrote more than 30 years ago that “the typical
American diet, with about 60 per cent of its calories from refined
sugar, refined flour, and fat … was apparently designed not only to
provide as little chromium as feasible, but to cause depletion of body
stores of chromium.”
Dr. Schroeder compared
tissue levels of chromium in teenagers and those 40 years of age in
Americans to those of three other cultures that did not follow after
Westernized dietary choices in Mideast, Southeast Asian, and African
communities. He discovered very little change in the non-American
cultures but dramatic decreases in Americans. Almost 25 per cent of Americans had no detectable levels of chromium at all by the age of 40! That was more than 30 years ago and things have not gotten any better – if anything things are worse.
This is a significant
part of the reason that the average age of adult onset (Type II)
diabetes is continually decreasing. A hundred years ago diabetes was a
disease primarily of old age. Now the average age is approaching 40.
There is a dramatic
increase of children developing adult onset diabetes in the last ten
years. Imagine that. Children are developing adult onset diabetes before
they even become adults! The field of medicine is baffled but I am not
baffled at all. This is only the logical end result of the SAD choices
of the past 80+ years....
....Few, if any,
scientific researchers of the last 100 years were more accredited and
experienced researchers regarding cardiovascular health than the late
Dr. Henry Alfred Schroeder, M.D., a long time Dartmouth University
professor. Dr. Schroeder identified chromium deficiency as the primary
cause of heart disease. I think that is a little overly simplistic, but
chromium deficiency is most certainly a primary part of the problem with
heart disease. Dr. Schroeder noted that cholesterol increases were linked to sinking levels of the trace element chromium more than 30 years ago.
Schroeder discovered
that chromium was the factor that managed cholesterol as he wrote, “We
found that chromium in the aorta was not detected (too low to be found)
in almost every person dying of coronary artery disease, one
manifestation of atherosclerosis, and was present in almost every aorta
of persons dying accidentally.”
Schroeder noted chromium
supplements that are grown rather than concocted by man in his
laboratories to be “100 times more active”. He expressed great hope for
atherosclerosis and diabetes when these grown source chromium
supplements became available. It was not until after his death
during the 1970s that these supplements became available. They have been
tragically ignored ever since.
It is the right
form of chromium (that which is grown) in the right amount (100
micrograms three times daily) that has been consistently shown to help
diabetics – and almost any and every other individual for their life and living.
I should note that I did
not pull out of a hat 100 micrograms three times daily or through some
extensive trial and error. Human studies 40 years ago determined that
200 to 290 micrograms of dietary chromium intake “maintained chromium
equilibrium”. In other words, that is how much chromium you need to take
in so that you don’t lose more than you use.
It was noted that
chromium intake from SAD (Standard American Diet) choices at that time
varied from 50 to 200 micrograms daily with an average of about 60
micrograms daily. However, it was also noted that a diet considered
adequate in all other nutrients could contain as little as 5 micrograms
of chromium. This deficiency of chromium is a very serious one of very
long standing. Today the average chromium intake is noted as much less
than even 60 micrograms daily.
As for chromium and
other diseases – that is a very long list. Chromium has great importance
at the cellular level from before you are born until the day you die.
Briefly, there is
gestational diabetes and prevention of birth defects regarding the
beginning of new life. Then there is energy production. OK, that is not a
disease matter UNLESS you want to get into hypoglycemia and Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome. People have greater energy and also feel better due to
mental health issues. You know, the brain uses more sugar than any
other organ in the body.
There is so much I could get into that it would approach the size of a Sunday newspaper to explain everything. I strongly encourage your readers to obtain a copy of my book on chromium through Crusador to learn more about why everyone should be taking this wonder element in a food grown form every day."
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