I totally agree. I recommend chromium a lot, and chromium polynicotinate is definitely the best. It is 300 times more effective than chromium picolinate.
A lot of people do not understand diabetes. Around 95% of diabetics are type 2, which in the earlier stages has no pancreatic damage. The pancreatic damage comes from the medications and eventual damage to the islet cells from the elevated glucose. Anyway, type 2 diabetes in the earlier stages results from a closing of insulin receptors on the cells. This prevents the insulin from moving the glucose in to the cells, and so the glucose remains high. What closes the insulin receptors is a lack of chromium. Supplementing chromium reopens the insulin receptors.