Main description:

Several years ago, two of us published a full-length textbook entitled Nutrition and Immunology: Principles and Practice. The book was aca demically successful and well received by our peers. Our colleagues commented that while the book was eminently suitable for a library, there was still an intellectual need for a more concise volume on nutrition and immunology for health care providers and scientists working at the inter face of delivering therapeutic and/or preventive health care. We agreed and decided that a book focused on issues relevant to laboratory workers and to developing countries would be valuable. We invited well-known experts in their fields to contribute a chapter each and asked that they err on the short rather than the long side and update cited review articles rather than original papers wherever possible. The Handbook of Nutrition and Immunity is the culmination of that process. Our intention is that the book will grow over time and new editions will fill identified voids that meet the changing needs of health care providers and scientists interested in the practical aspects related to evaluating nutrition and immunology in the field. The Handbook of Nutrition and Immunity is for those people working in both adult and child nutrition throughout the world. It is also of relevance to those in the pharmaceutical and the food industry who are interested in developing ways to evaluate both the efficacy and effective ness of their products.

Contents:

Evaluation of the Immune Function in the Nutritionally At-Risk Patient

Carlo Selmi, Pietro Invernizzi, Massimo Zuin, Aftab A. Ansari, and M. Eric Gershwin

The Field Assessment of Nutrition

Michael K. Hendricks and Greg Hussey

The Pregnant and Lactating Woman

Rachel Gitau and Suzanne Filteau

Severe Undernutrition and Immunity

Alan A. Jackson and Philip C. Calder

Infection, Immunity, and Vitamins

Usha Ramakrishnan, Amy L. Webb, and Karen Ologoudou

Trace Elements/Minerals and Immunity

Carl L. Keen, Janet Y. Uriu-Adams, Jodi L. Ensunsa, and M. Eric Gershwin

Dietary Fat and Immunity in Humans

Kent L. Erickson, Darshan S. Kelley, and Neil E. Hubbard

Allergies and Nutrition

Christopher Chang

Antioxidant Nutrition and Immunity

Laurence S. Harbige and M. Eric Gershwin

Probiotics and Prebiotics

Andrea T. Borchers, Carl L. Keen, and M. Eric Gershwin

Malaria and Immunity

Clara Menendez and Carlota Dobano

Acute Respiratory Infections

Ian D. Riley

Diarrhea and Other Gastrointestinal Diseases

Douglas L. Taren

HIV

Annamaria Kiure and Wafaie Fawzi

Summary and Future Directions

Penelope Nestel and Ritu Nalubola

Index