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Major dietary sources of thiamine include pork, legumes (dried beans), peanuts, sunflower seeds, whole grains and enriched breads and cereals. Like most water soluble vitamins, excess intake of thiamine is excreted and not stored in the body. Thiamine is sensitive to heat and, like other water soluble vitamins, leaches into cooking water.

Major Body Functions:

>Aids in energy (carbohydrate) metabolism
>Enables normal functioning of the nervous system
>Necessary for proper functioning of the heart

Deficiency Symptoms:

>Beriberi, which results in damage to the nervous and cardiovascular systems, and muscle wasting
>Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, which results in mental confusion, amnesia and muscular incoordination

Excessive Intake and Toxicity Symptoms:

>Thiamine is easily cleared by the kidneys, no evidence of thiamine toxicity has been noted from oral intake