pcossucks

I have to admit before even starting my diet ,I did research on PCOS

bad and good foods and also vitamins and mineral(by the way PCOS is Insulin deficiency) basically the step before diabetes

I wake up and take my multivitamins and seperate supplemts of vitamin D and Chromium .Chromium is in many diet supplemts but is also sold separately.It has been found to work great for PCOS because it improves the efficiency of

Insulin.Okay I don’t believe many things until I try it ! My reason for purchasing it was due to PCOS.  I have been on it now for a month and I do find it is true that it does  reduce my appetite . I can not testify for the other claims this mineral claims  of increasing the metabolism . But as for my appetite I have found that I do not crave  alot of food and do get filled up pretty fast .

What is important really to me …and we’ll see once my doctor does tests again is to see my blood levels

Chromium is a naturally-occurring mineral, trace amounts of which are found in everyday foods like meat, poultry, fish, and whole-grain breads.  When foods are processed, they are stripped of natural chromium, making American diets generally very low in chromium; In 1968, it was demonstrated that when animals do not receive adequate levels of chromium, insulin is not optimally effective, and damage to insulin-dependent systems can occur (Schroeder, 1968).  This led the FDA to recommend a daily chromium intake of approximately 130 mcg, as infinitesimal amounts of chromium are needed to aid the transport of blood glucose across cell membranes

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/psychology/health_psychology/chromiumpicolinate.htm

with an estimated 25‚50 percent of the U.S. population deficient in chromium. The United States has a greater incidence of deficiency than any other country, because of very low soil levels of chromium and the loss of this mineral from refined foods, especially sugar and flours. Deficiencies are more common in both the elderly and the young, especially teenagers on poor diets. Even though chromium is needed in such small amounts, it is difficult to obtain. Given these factors, and the fact that the already-low chromium absorption rate decreases even further with age, chromium deficiency is of great concern. It may even be the missing link in the development of adult-onset diabetes, a serious problem increasing rapidly in our culture. Nearly one in five adult Americans now develops diabetes.