A community portal about Thiamine with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Thiamine or thiamin, also known as vitamin B, is a colorless compound with chemical formula C H N O S. It is soluble in water and insoluble in...
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A community portal about Thiamine with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Thiamine or thiamin, also known as vitamin B, is a colorless compound with chemical formula C H N O S. It is soluble in water and insoluble in alcohol. Thiamine decomposes if heated.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been talking about the importance of a healthy balanced diet and how eliminating some foods, such as casein, gluten and complex carbohydrates, can be beneficial to autistic children. A healthy diet can help combat deficiencies and elimination diets can stop autoimmune reactions and allow an inflamed gut to heal.
Autism and Nutritional Deficiencies
Research into autism has found that some autistic children have nutritional deficiencies, particularly in... Read Full Story
The sugar is glucose, necessary for almost all processes associated with metabolism. Consequently, one would think that sugar is useful. However, to the dissapointment of everyone who loves sweets, it is not.
Because the refined sugar, honey or sweeteners such as maple syrup, brown sugar and white flour, represent carbohydrates, which do not contain essential nutrients, or contain them in very small quantities. Thus, in the body are supplied the net carbohydrates that have no significance... Read Full Story
Unless you’re living in a cave with your beer, you most likely have heard about Jessica Simpson’s new vitamin beer. The beer had received lots of press, but is adding vitamins a good idea? Stampede Light is a pilsner containing vitamin B1 (Thiamine), vitamin B2 (Riboflavin), vitamin B3 (Niacin), vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid), vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine), vitamin B9 (Folic Acid) and Folate. The beer has 115 calories, which is average for a light beer. The (horribly designed) website for... Read Full Story
Vitamins are organic food substances found only in living things, i.e. plants and animals. They are essential for our bodies to function properly, for growth, energy and for our general well-being. With very few exceptions the human body cannot manufacture or synthesize vitamins. They must be supplied in our diet or in man-made dietary supplements. Some people believe that vitamins can replace food, but that is incorrect. In fact, vitamins cannot be assimilated without also ingesting food... Read Full Story
Research has shown that vitamin B1 (also known as thiamine) plays a key role in diabetic health. In addition to kidney dysfunction, thiamine deficiency has been linked to increased risk of cardiovascular problems. It is an essential nutrient first classified in 1936 by the chemist Robert Williams. Thiamine is one of eight water-soluble B vitamins. All B vitamins help the body to convert carbohydrates into glucose (sugar), which is "burned" to produce energy. These B vitamins, often referred... Read Full Story
The Sugar consists of glucose , which is necessary for almost all the processes involved in metabolism. It can be assumed that the sugar is useful, but, to the disappointment of all who love sweets, it is not so. Why? Because refined sugar, honey or sweeteners, such as Maple syrup, brown sugar and white flour, constitute carbohydrates, which do not contain the essential nutrients, or contain them in very small quantities. Thus, the body is supplied with pure carbohydrates that do not have a... Read Full Story
According to a study published in this week’s Journal of the
American Medical Association (JAMA), taking folic
acid , vitamin
B6 or vitamin
B12 supplements does not reduce (or increase) the risk of invasive cancer
or breast cancer in women. This study was conducted because previous studies
had suggested a protective effect for B vitamins against cancer.
In the JAMA study, the researchers examined the incidence of
invasive cancer and breast cancer among 5,442 female health professionals... Read Full Story
Vitamin B1 is deficiency associated with beriberi, was found by the Eijkman on the skin rice in 1897, when he served as a military doctor in Java (Indonesia). Vitamin B1 functions as a coenzyme (help working enzyme) important in metabolism system to produce energy from carbohydrates, fat and protein . In addition, vitamin B1 is also known as morale vitamin because got a great beneficial effects on the central nervous system and mental attitude, also helps the normal function of the nervous... Read Full Story
Women at high-risk of cardiovascular disease who took a daily supplement of folic acid and vitamin B6 and B12 for 7 years did not have an overall reduced rate of cardiovascular events.
These women experienced the same amount of heart-related health problems as those who took placebos.
The supplements are proven to reduce the body’s level of the amino acid homocysteine, a known marker for heart disease.
Researchers from Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston found that... Read Full Story
B Vitamins In Liquid
The B group vitamins include thiamine (Vitamin B1), riboflavin, niacin (vitamin B3), pyridoxine (vitamin B6), folate, (cyanocobalamin) vitamin B12 , pantothenic acid, and biotin . One can easily get B vitamins in liquid so that they can be easily ingested unlike pills.
Liquid Vitamin B12
Thiamine improves carbohydrate metabolism and sustains normal muscle tone of important internal organs. It helps in blood formation, synthesis of nerve regulating materials and... Read Full Story
