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Diet and Human Immune Function

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Editors:
  1. David A. Hughes

    1. Nutrition Division, Institute of Food Research, Norfolk, UK

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  2. L. Gail Darlington

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

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  3. Adrianne Bendich

    1. GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, Parsippany, USA

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  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
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About this book

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

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Diet and Human Immune Function

  • Editors: David A. Hughes, L. Gail Darlington, Adrianne Bendich

  • Series Title: Nutrition and Health

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-652-2

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-58829-206-3Published: 04 December 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-61737-422-7Published: 09 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-59259-652-2Published: 04 December 2003

  • Series ISSN: 2628-197X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2628-1961

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 468

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Public Health, Clinical Nutrition, Nutrition

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