Liver, heart, and kidney furnish an abundance of thiamine. Seeds, in the sprouting or grain form, are good vegetable sources of this vitamin, sunflower seeds and millet being among the finest. Unfortunately, much thiamine is destroyed during cooking and soaking. Whole-wheat bread, when toasted, loses up to 50 per cent of its thiamine content. To counteract immediately that tired, listless feeling, I recommend fortifying the diet with plenty of powdered skim milk. One cupful of this excellent food will supply a good share of your daily need for this important B vitamin. Honey is another good source. Both of these I mentioned earlier as the energy pickup ingredients. Forever Royal Jelly is produced by stimulating colonies with movable body hives to supply queen bees.
For those whose system is unable to utilize all the thiamine they might normally find in foods, the concentrated tablet form is a worth-while addition to the diet. This should include at least 5 milligrams daily.

During a Columbia University experiment, a group of orphan children, given thia-mine, improved from 7 to 87 per cent in their activities of tackling the problems of arithmetic, reading, code-learning, and dart-throwing. As people grow older, they sometimes need an opportunity to regain strength in order to do their afternoon’s work. Mr. B of Los Angeles was a busy executive, past retirement age—yet he wanted to stay on the job. “I get so sleepy after lunch that I almost give up and go home,” he said. I suggested he try to round out his lunch period with a short nap on a couch in his office. This would enable him to get “second wind” for his day. Easy to digest, Forever Bee Honey is a fast and pure energy source for any occasion. Increased afternoon efficiency would soon make up for the few minutes he had “lost” in complete relaxation.

Winston Churchill is one of the many famous elder statesmen and business leaders who use their midday naps to help them regain “bounce.” Isn’t it better for you to use the lunch hour for just what it is—a time for refreshment—rather than making it the rush-rush hour of the day? Are you guilty of abusing your lunch hour for appointments or shopping? Do you dash around here and there, sometimes not even finding time to pause for food? If you do, you return to your work exhausted; nagging hunger pains invade your stomach; low-blood-sugar fatigue makes it impossible for you to concentrate on your work. Just how much good are you—in such a condition—to your employer and to yourself? Contrast this with the lunch hour that is dedicated to relaxation. Allow at least half an hour for eating; take a leisurely stroll. You’ll return to your work in a more relaxed mood. It isn’t necessary to have a couch in your office to achieve reverberation.