Nutrition and Immunology

I. Nutritional Assessment.- 1 Application and Interpretation of Commonly Used Nutritional Assessment Techniques.- 2 Evaluating Malnutrition: What Should the Physician Look For?.- 3 Evaluation of the Immune System in the Nutritionally At-Risk Host.- II. Specific Nutrient Requirements (Normal Populations; Populations with Low Intakes, Including Teens, Females, Elderly...).- 4 Caloric Intake: Sources, Deficiencies, and Excess — An Overview.- 5 Protein and Amino Acids.- 6 Specific Nutrient Requirements: Trace Elements.- 7 Vitamins: Overview and Metabolic Functions.- 8 ?-Lipoic Acid: The Metabolic Antioxidant.- 9 Defining the Role of Dietary Phytochemicals in Modulating Human Immune Function.- 10 Dietary n-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Modulate T-Lymphocyte Activation: Clinical Relevance in Treating Diseases of Chronic Inflammation.- 11 Nucleotides.- III. Nutrient-Immune Interactions.- 12 Impact of Nutritional Status on Immune Integrity.- 13 Nutritional Modulation of Inflammation by Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids/Eicosanoids.- IV. Clinical Issues.- 14 Immunological Considerations of Breast Milk.- 15 Clinical Issues: Childhood Illnesses, Vaccinations, and Nutritional Status.- 16 Protein-Energy Malnutrition and Infectious Disease: Synergistic Interactions.- 17 Lipids, Inflammatory Cytokines, and Endothelial Cell Injury.- 18 Nutrition and Allergy.- 19 Adverse Reactions to Foods.- 20 Perioperative Feeding: Nutrition and Immunity.- 21 Alcohol and Immune Function.- 22 Cigarette Smoking, Substance Abuse, Nutritional Status, and Immune Function.- 23 Nutrition, Immunity, and Alternative Medicine.- 24 Obesity and Immunity.- 25 Diabetes and Immunity.- 26 Nutritional Modulation of Autoimmune Diseases.- 27 Autoimmune Diseases of the Digestive Tract.- 28 Diet and Allograft Rejection.- 29Food Toxicology and Immunity.- 30 Interactions Between Nutrition and Immunity: Lessons from Animal Agriculture.- 31 Cancer and Nutrition.- 32 AIDS.- 33 Aging: Nutrition and Immunity.- 34 Role of Nutrition in Common Oral Diseases.- 35 The Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Chinese Herbs, Plants, and Spices.- 36 The Influence of Probiotic Organisms on the Immune Response.- 37 Nutritional Effects on the Pathogen Genome and Phenotypic Expression of Disease.- V. Future Directions.- 38 Whither Nutrition and Immunology Interactions Toward the Next Millennium? What is Past is Prologue.