Thiamine changes starchy foods into energy.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

Now the fact that people were so reliant on certain foods led to deficiencies of certain nutrients, so people that were dependent on a rice based diet tended to have problems with deficiencies in protein, Vitamin A, and thiamine.

人们过于依赖某些特定的食物,导致了某些营养元素的匮乏,因此,以米饭为主食的人,很可能缺少蛋白质,维生素A和维生素B1

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Vitamin B-one is also called thiamine.

VOA: special.2010.09.14

it was later shown to be thiamine.

VOA: special.2009.04.21