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These higher tissue levels of chromium are due primarily to better soil supplies and a less refined diet. In addition, there is some evidence that refined flour and sugar deplete even more chromium from the body. Higher fat intake also may inhibit chromium absorption. If chromium is as important as we think it is to blood sugar metabolism, its deficiency may be in part responsible, along with the refined and processed diet, for the third leading cause of death (more than 300,000 yearly) in this country, diabetes mellitus, and this figure does not reflect other deaths that may be related to chromium deficiency, since high blood sugar levels seen in diabetes also increase the progression of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease, our number one killer. Chromium deficiency can resemble diabetes.
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