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Tue 10 Oct 2009Supplement may help lower blood sugar levels
DOES IT WORK:VANADIUM is an element named after Vanadis, the Scandinavian goddess of beauty, youth and lustre. Vanadium is not said to bring all these blessings, but it has developed a reputation as a food supplement to prevent and treat type 2 diabetes. This is the most common form of diabetes, now estimated to affect about 250 million people worldwide.
In the pursuit of inexpensive nutritional strategies to address diabetes, vanadium is one of a number of “micronutrients” being investigated. These are minerals known to play some role in sugar metabolism which could be added to people’s diets in a relatively straightforward way if found to be beneficial.
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