Thiamin - The First B Vitamin
Vitamin B1 (or thiamin) is essential for your body to function properly.
It helps you convert the carbohydrates you consume into energy or fuel for your body that you use throughout your daily activity.
For it to do that, you have to eat healthy and balance your diet so you get enough carbohydrates, and fruits and veggies.
Thiamin also helps your heart to pump smoothly and your brain to stay healthy.
Your body has to go through a complex process to convert the carbohydrates into energy.
In one step of the process you need an enzyme called thiamin pyrophosphate or TPP, to work.
The word thiamin comes from the Greek prefix thio which means sulfur, since thiamin has a molecule of sulfur.
Daily amount of thiamin you need is actually quite small.
It is based on how much food you take in a day.
If you eat 2,000 calories a day, you need at least 1.
0 mg of thiamin.
What happened when you don't get enough thiamin? History tells us that.
In the early 1800s, people in Asia discovered a new way to eat rice.
They began removing the brown outer shell of the rice, creating white rice, that cooked well and tasted really good.
The Asians that ate just white rice and barely anything else developed a sickness called beriberi.
The millions of people who got the sickness acquired loss of muscle strength, leg spasms, paralysis and became mentally confused.
For a long time everyone thought it was some kind of germ that got them sick but they discovered in the late 1890s that the people that ate the brown rice with the shell still on didn't get beriberi.
Something in the brown rice husk they concluded was important to the people's health but it wasn't until 1911 that they found out about thiamin.
Most elderly people are thiamin deficient, and that's because they don't get enough thiamin in their diets.
They often feel deprived of sleep, irritable, or just don't feel they have enough energy.
Some thiamin rich foods you can eat to prevent those things are: steamed asparagus, bagels, breakfast cereal, beans, beef, whole wheat bread, corn, oatmeal, oranges, peanuts, roasted pork, potatoes, brown rice, sunflower seed and many more.
What you drink with your food affects how much thiamin you get, so if you drink alcohol or tea it destroys the thiamin.
It's best to them well after you eat your meals instead.
Most people don't need to take thiamin supplements because the amount they get in their diet is fine.
Because your body doesn't store thiamin, you need to get some daily.
If you have too much over your recommended daily amount, there aren't any bad side effects.
If you're low on thiamin however, you can get canker sores which are painful crater like sores in your mouth.
To make them go away, get more thiamin in your diet.
It helps you convert the carbohydrates you consume into energy or fuel for your body that you use throughout your daily activity.
For it to do that, you have to eat healthy and balance your diet so you get enough carbohydrates, and fruits and veggies.
Thiamin also helps your heart to pump smoothly and your brain to stay healthy.
Your body has to go through a complex process to convert the carbohydrates into energy.
In one step of the process you need an enzyme called thiamin pyrophosphate or TPP, to work.
The word thiamin comes from the Greek prefix thio which means sulfur, since thiamin has a molecule of sulfur.
Daily amount of thiamin you need is actually quite small.
It is based on how much food you take in a day.
If you eat 2,000 calories a day, you need at least 1.
0 mg of thiamin.
What happened when you don't get enough thiamin? History tells us that.
In the early 1800s, people in Asia discovered a new way to eat rice.
They began removing the brown outer shell of the rice, creating white rice, that cooked well and tasted really good.
The Asians that ate just white rice and barely anything else developed a sickness called beriberi.
The millions of people who got the sickness acquired loss of muscle strength, leg spasms, paralysis and became mentally confused.
For a long time everyone thought it was some kind of germ that got them sick but they discovered in the late 1890s that the people that ate the brown rice with the shell still on didn't get beriberi.
Something in the brown rice husk they concluded was important to the people's health but it wasn't until 1911 that they found out about thiamin.
Most elderly people are thiamin deficient, and that's because they don't get enough thiamin in their diets.
They often feel deprived of sleep, irritable, or just don't feel they have enough energy.
Some thiamin rich foods you can eat to prevent those things are: steamed asparagus, bagels, breakfast cereal, beans, beef, whole wheat bread, corn, oatmeal, oranges, peanuts, roasted pork, potatoes, brown rice, sunflower seed and many more.
What you drink with your food affects how much thiamin you get, so if you drink alcohol or tea it destroys the thiamin.
It's best to them well after you eat your meals instead.
Most people don't need to take thiamin supplements because the amount they get in their diet is fine.
Because your body doesn't store thiamin, you need to get some daily.
If you have too much over your recommended daily amount, there aren't any bad side effects.
If you're low on thiamin however, you can get canker sores which are painful crater like sores in your mouth.
To make them go away, get more thiamin in your diet.