Table of Contents:
  • Nutrition, immunity, and infection
  • Immune systems : the defence mechanisms of the body
  • Role of nutrients in immune functions
  • Undernutrition, host defence mechanisms, and risk of infection
  • Infections and undernutrition : causation and consequences
  • Vitamin A deficiency and risk of infection
  • Iron status and risk of infection
  • Zinc deficiency and infections
  • Nutrition, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis
  • Nutrition, immunity, and infections of infants and children
  • Maternal nutrition, infections, and birth outcomes
  • Nutrition, immunity, and infections in the elderly
  • Nutrition, immunity, and chronic diseases
  • Probiotics, prebiotics, and immunity
  • Food allergy.