This volume provides readers with a systematic assessment of current literature on the link between nutrition and immunity. Chapters cover immunonutrition topics such as child development, cancer, aging, allergic asthma, food intolerance, obesity, and chronic critical illness. It also presents a thorough review of microflora of the gut and the essential role it plays in regulating the balance between immune tolerance and inflammation. 

Written by experts in the field, Nutrition and Immunity helps readers to further understand the importance of healthy dietary patterns in relation to providing immunity against disorders and offering readily available immunonutritional programming in clinical care. It will be a valuable resource for dietitians, immunologists, endocrinologists and other healthcare professionals.  

Introduction

Vitamin D and the Immune System
Vitamin A and the Immune System
Vitamin K and the Immune System
Vitamin C and the Immune System
Vitamin B12, Folic Acid, and the Immune System
Zinc and the Immune System
Selenium and the Immune System
Selenium and Immunity
Gut Microbiome and Immunity
Maternal Nutrition, Child Development, and Immunity
Nutrition, Immunity, and Cancer
Nutrition and Cancer
Aging, Immunity, and Neuroinflammation: The Modulatory Potential of Nutrition
Vitamins and Allergic Asthma
Nutrition, Immunity, and Food Intolerances
Potency of T-Cell Epitope-Based Peptide Vaccines in Food Allergy Treatment
Obesity and Immunity
Nutrition, Immunity, and Neurological Diseases
Nutrition for Chronic Critical Illness and Persistent Inflammatory, Immunosuppressed, Catabolic Syndrome
Nutrition, Immunity, and Autoimmune Diseases
Immunomodulatory Effects of Flavonoids: Possible Induction of TCD4+ Regulatory Cells through mTor Signaling Pathway Suppression
Glucan and its Role in Immunonutrition
Nutrigenomic Immunity
Nutriepigenomic Immunity.