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Everyone knows that you must pay attention to the foods you eat when you are trying to lose weight. It is important to limit your intake of carbs, sugars and fats, and to make sure you eat clean, healthy foods with every meal you eat. But it is equally important to make sure you mix certain nutrients into your diet – and there is one vitamin in particular that is extremely important for weight loss.
B vitamins are one of the best types of vitamins you can eat when you’re trying to maintain a healthy weight. There are eight B vitamins, and they each play an important role in cell metabolism. This means that eating foods with B vitamins can help benefit your metabolism and help you properly take the right amount of energy from foods.
Many people take vitamin B-1 to help lose and maintain weight. Also called thiamine, vitamin B-1 helps your body take energy from carbs. Getting enough of this vitamin into your diet can help make sure you burn the carbs you eat.
Another great B vitamin for weight loss is vitamin B-12. It can help speed up your overall metabolism to convert food into energy. Maintaining a healthy level of vitamin B-12 can help your metabolism function at its best.
The best way to get more B vitamins into your diet is to eat foods that contain high levels of them. Foods like sunflower seeds, pork, tuna, barley and beans are high in thiamine, while salmon, beef and eggs have a lot of vitamin B-12.
