Vitamin B1, also known as thiamin, is a water-soluble micronutrient. As one of the eight B vitamins, thiamin plays an important role in energy metabolism and cognitive health. Let's look at what it does, and where you can get it from, in a bit more detail: What does
What are vitamins? Vitamins are organic compounds that the human body needs in small amounts to function properly. Unlike macronutrients (proteins, carbohydrates, and fats), vitamins don't give us energy directly. Instead, they serve as crucial helpers in countless processes that are happening in the body. You can think
It is normal to have mixed feelings about making changes. In fact, the bigger the change you're contemplating, the more ambivalent you'll probably feel about it. One way of dealing with that is to break the change down into smaller steps that you can tackle one
The concept of Energy Balance may seem simple, and maybe you've heard it a thousand times already. But it's actually very helpful to come back to when you're trying to make sense of ads nutrition-related information that you come across in your everyday life.
Outside of a lab, it's not possible to get an exact count of how many calories * ... are in the food you eat. * ... you absorb, use, and/or excrete. * ... you expend through metabolic activity and movement. Why is that? To precisely measure the amount of energy that a food
When it comes to weight management, water tends to make things confusing. Here's why: Water can change body weight independent of energy balance. That can make it seem like Energy Balance isn't working. For example, even if you manage to consistently take in less energy than
If you're looking to get a better understanding of weight management, it's helpful to start with the concept of energy balance. It comes down to to a fundamental principle of physics (the 1st law of thermodynamics, to be exact): Energy cannot be created or destroyed. In
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