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Although trivalent chromium is recognized as a nutritionally essential mineral, scientists are not yet certain exactly how it functions in the body.

Your body needs this mineral for the hormone insulin (which lets cells turn sugar into fuel) to work effectively. Insulin resistance, linked to diabetes, is thought to make you fat. The effective dosage seems to be 200 micrograms (mcg) per day.

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Baseball season no longer holds the allure that it did when I was twelve which is a bit sad but, perhaps, not surprising. It's not only how the game has changed, but more the fact that I don't spend endless summer days playing pick-up games with neighborhood friends - games that would invariably end in fights which would send us all on our seperate ways until later that day.

However, baseball season always makes me think of Lola and her love of the Chicago Cubs.

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