Diet and Human Immune Function

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Overview

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Basics of Immunology for the Non-Immunologist

      • Keith E. Nye

      Pages 3-15

   3. Assessment of Human Immune Response

      • Susanna Cunningham-Rundles

      Pages 17-34

   4. Effects of Infection on Nutritional and Immune Status

      • David I. Thurnham, Christine A. Northrop-Clewes

      Pages 35-64

   5. Neonatal Nutrition and Immunity

      • Deborah O’Neil, Denise Kelly

      Pages 65-77

   6. Nutrition and Immunity in the Elderly

      • John D. Bogden, Donald B. Louria

      Pages 79-101

3. Vitamins and Immune Responses

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Vitamin A

      • Richard D. Semba

      Pages 105-131

   3. Vitamin C

      • Ronald Anderson

      Pages 133-148

   4. Vitamin E

      • Sung Nim Han, Simin Nikbin Meydani

      Pages 149-164

   5. Carotenoids

      • David A. Hughes

      Pages 165-183

   6. Multivitamins

      • Ho-Kyung Kwak, Jeffrey B. Blumberg

      Pages 185-199

4. Minerals and Immune Responses

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201

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   2. Iron

      • Günter Weiss

      Pages 203-215

   3. Selenium

      • Geoffrey J. Beckett, John R. Arthur, Sue M. Miller, Roddie C. McKenzie

      Pages 217-240

   4. Zinc

      • Klaus-Helge Ibs, Lothar Rink

      Pages 241-259

5. Nutrition, Immunity, and Disease

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261

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   2. Rheumatoid Arthritis

      • L. Gail Darlington

      Pages 263-285

   3. Osteoporosis, Nutrition, and the Immune System

      • Marco Di Monaco

      Pages 287-301

Leading international researchers and clinicians comprehensively review in detail what is known about the ability of diet to enhance human immune function in health, disease, and under various condition of stress. The authors offer state-of-the-art critical appraisals of the influences on the human immune system of several important vitamins and minerals both singly and in combination. The authors also examine how nutrition modulates immune function in various disease states and under three forms of stress-vigorous exercise, military conditions, and air pollution. A much-needed overview of the nutritional consequences of drug-disease interactions provides recommendations for potential nutritional interventions that could increase drug efficacy and/or reduce adverse side effects. "Conclusions" and "Take Home Messages" at the end of each chapter give physicians clinical instructions about special diets and dietary components for many immune-related disease states.

• Carotenoids
• Intervention
• Nutrition
• Vitamin A
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin E
• allergy
• cancer

From the Foreword...
"...provides exceedingly useful information for practicing physicians"
-William R. Beisel, MD, FACP

• Nutrition Division, Institute of Food Research, Norfolk, UK

  David A. Hughes

• Epsom and St. Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, Surrey, UK

  L. Gail Darlington

• GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, Parsippany, USA

  Adrianne Bendich

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