Vitamin B1
(THIAMINE)
Recommended Dietary Intakes
Men – 0.9 – 1.1 mg
Women – 0.7 -0 .8 mg
Children under seven – 0.15 -0 .7 mg
Children seven to eighteen – 0 .8 – 1.2 mg
This Vitamin Is Essential For:
- metabolise carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.
- helps in the conversion of excess glucose into stored fat.
- circulation.
- blood formation.
- increases stamina.
- brain action, learning capacity and mental health.
- aids digestion.
- energy, growth and maintaining normal appetite.
- muscle tone – particularly in the heart, intestines and stomach.
- antioxidant.
Athletes, labourers, pregnant women, and other people who burn great amounts of energy may require more than the adult RDA of thiamine.
Sources…
Lean pork, milk, whole grains, brown rice, egg yolks, fish, legumes, liver, poultry, wheat germ, brewers yeast, broccoli, kelp, peas, beans, peanuts, or soybeans.
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