It is now widely appreciated that nutrition contributes significantly to the optimal working of the immune system and hence to personal health. In Diet and Human Immune Function, leading international researchers and clinicians comprehensively detail what is known about the ability of diet to enhance human immune function in health, disease, and under various conditions of stress. The authors offer state-of-the-art critical appraisals of the influences on the human immune system of several important vitamins (vitamins A, C, and E, as well as carotenoids, such as b-carotene) and minerals (iron, selenium, and zinc), both singly and in combination. The authors also examine how nutrition modulates immune function in such disease states as rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, HIV infection, and cancer. Immune responses to three forms of stress-vigorous exercise, military conditions, and air pollution (in relation to allergic asthma)-are discussed in depth in unique chapters not found in any other texts. Probiotics and long-chain fatty acids are also examined for their immunomodulatory effects. 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 clearly stated clinical instructions about special diets and dietary components for immune-related disease states.
Authoritative and highly practical, Diet and Human Immune Function provides a critical survey of the most up-to-date clinical studies of nutritional effects on immune responses for disease prevention and therapy, documenting for practicing physicians, nutritionists, immunologists, and educated consumers the enormous potential of diet to modulate immune function beneficially.

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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.

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I. Overview The Basics of Immunology for the Non-Immunologist Keith E. Nye Assessment of Human Immune Response Susanna Cunningham-Rundles Effects of Infection on Nutritional and Immune Status David I. Thurnham and Christine A. Northrop-Clewes Neonatal Nutrition and Immunity Deborah O'Neil and Denise Kelly Nutrition and Immunity in the Elderly John D. Bogden and Donald B. Louria II. Vitamins and Immune Responses Vitamin A Richard D. Semba Vitamin C Ronald Anderson Vitamin E Sung Nim Han and Simin Nikbin Meydani Carotenoids David A. Hughes Multivitamins Ho-Kyung Kwak and Jeffrey B. Blumberg III. Minerals and Immune Responses Iron Günter Weiss Selenium Geoffrey J. Beckett, John R. Arthur, Sue M. Miller, and Roddie C. McKenzie Zinc Klaus-Helge Ibs and Lothar Rink IV. Nutrition, Immunity, and Disease Rheumatoid Arthritis L. Gail Darlington Osteoporosis, Nutrition, and the Immune System Marco Di Monaco HIV Infection Marianna K. Baum and Adriana Campa Probiotics and Immunomodulation Kay J. Rutherfurd-Markwick and Harsharnjit S. Gill Dietary Fat, Immunity, and Cancer Kent L. Erickson, Darshan S. Kelley, and Neil E. Hubbard V. Environmental Stressors Exercise, Cytokines, and Lymphocytes: Nutritional and Metabolic Aspects Bente K. Pedersen Military Studies and Nutritional Immunology: Undernutrition and Susceptibility to Illness Karl E. Friedl Air Pollution, Reactive Oxygen Species, and Allergic Bronchial Asthma: The Therapeutic Role of Antioxidants Gennaro D'Amato Use of Drugs that Affect Nutrition and Immune Function Adrianne Bendich and Ronit Zilberboim VI.Appendices Abbreviations Glossary Related Books and Websites Index.