Diet and Resistance to Disease

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Ascorbic Acid and the Immune Response

   • Brian Leibovitz, Benjamin V. Siegel

   Pages 1-25

3. Vitamin E, Immunity and Disease Resistance

   • Robert P. Tengerdy, Melvin M. Mathias, Cheryl F. Nockels

   Pages 27-42

4. Anti-Inflammatory, Immunologic and Carcinostatic Attributes of Selenium in Experimental Animals

   • Julian E. Spallholz

   Pages 43-62

5. Effects of Dietary Folate, Vitamin B12 and Methionine/Choline Deficiency on Immune Function

   • Kathleen M. Nauss, Paul M. Newberne

   Pages 63-91

6. Role of the B Vitamins in the Immune Response

   • A. E. Axelrod

   Pages 93-106

7. Effect of Dietary Zinc Deficiency on Lymphocyte Function in the Mouse

   • Pamela J. Fraker, R. W. Leucke

   Pages 107-119

8. The Role of Copper in Metabolic Disorders

   • Gary W. Evans

   Pages 121-137

9. Antimicrobial Properties of Iron-Binding Proteins

   • Anatoly Bezkorovainy

   Pages 139-154

10. A Possible Role of Iron Deficiency in Gastric Cancer in Colombia

    • Selwyn A. Broitman, Hernan Velez, Joseph J. Vitale

    Pages 155-181

11. Host Defense Mechanisms in Protein Energy Malnutrition

    • Gerald T. Keusch

    Pages 183-209

12. Back Matter

    Pages 211-220

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Intuitively, we realize that animals that are well fed and well cared for are healthier than animals that are not well fed or well cared for. Although nutritionists have long been concerned with minimum nutrient requirements for maximal growth rate and maintenance, it has been only recently that investiagators have begun to look at the nutritional requirements that provide optimal health. The increasingly sophisticated methods of immunology have allowed investigators to define indicators of resistance to disease such as cell mediated immunity, lymphocyte functions, and macrophage functions. When these immunological tools are combined with the classical methods of nutrition research it is possible to determine how dietary constituents affect each of these cellular immune systems, and to gain an overall understanding of how these systems affect resistance to disease. This symposium was organized to bring together people working on various nutritional problems that have an interrelationship to resistance to disease, so that this rapidly expanding area of nutritional immunology could be reviewed. We felt that the Agricultural and Food Division of the American Chemical Society was an ideal forum to present this material. In relating nutrition and infection, two areas of importan~e must be considered: (1) public health, i. e. , the prevention and treatment of human disease and metabolic disorders; and (2) live­ stock and poultry production. The production of meat, fibre, and animal materials continues to be a more intensive operation in the agricultural system of this country and the world.

• Public Health
• agriculture
• food
• health
• nutrition
• prevention

• U.S. Department of Agriculture Science and Education Administration—Agricultural Research, National Animal Disease Center, Ames, USA

  Marshall Phillips, Albert Baetz

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