Feeling cranky? Try adding extra thiamin to your diet.

Vitamin B-1 or Thiamin helps our bodies transform carbohydrates into energy. Since our brains and nerve tissue require carbohydrate-based energy, even a mild thiamin deficiency causes irritability, poor concentration and muscle weakness.

Ensure you get enough thiamin with these tips:

• Stir a tablespoon of brewer’s yeast into your next protein shake or smoothie.
• Sprinkle pecans onto your breakfast oatmeal.
• Keep soynuts in your glove box for a quick and easy snack.
• Eat a thiamin-fortified breakfast cereal each morning.
• Take a multivitamin.
  

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Hands, Elizabeth; Nutrients in Food. Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000.
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