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Nutrition and Immunity

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Having a variety of cells, organs, and mechanisms, the immune system is able to produce pleiotropic effects that are truly tangible throughout the body. Recently, the possibility of training the overall immunity has been sublated into literature. As a result, there is now pressure to explore factors affecting the immune system, more than before. Heritable and nonheritable factors interact to determine the immune health. In particular, study of healthy twins pointed to the substantial share that nonheritable factors, including nutritional factors, have in establishing immunological parameters. This chapter shows the basic ideas behind the book Nutrition and Immunity.

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