Gut Flora, Nutrition, Immunity and Health

Some foods, as well as contributing essential nutrients to thebody, also contain additional components that improve diseaseresistance and general health status over and above that induced byingestion of conventional foods. The so-called functional foods,and prebiotics and probiotics exemplify the relationship thatexists between nutrition, the gut (the largest element of thebody's immune system) and its flora, immunology andhealth.
This important book contains chapters covering the basicprinciples of nutrition, gut microecology and immunology, as wellas chapters which discuss the way in which this knowledge may beused to explain the positive and negative effects of foodconsumption, metabolism, probiotics and prebiotics. Foodhypersensitivity and allergic reactions, carcinogenesis, and therole of nutrition in the reduced immunity of the aged are alsodiscussed in detail.
The editors of this exciting and informative book, who betweenthem have a vast wealth of knowledge of the area, have drawntogether and carefully edited international contributions from manywell known and respected workers in the area. Gut Flora,Nutrition, Immunity and Health provides essential informationfor a range of professionals including nutritionists, dietitians,food scientists, microbiologists, gastroenterologists,immunologists and all personnel working in the development and useof functional foods and supplements, prebiotics and probiotics.Libraries in universities and research establishments where thesesubjects are studied and taught, and pharmaceutical and foodcompanies should have multiple copies of this very useful book ontheir shelves.
Roy Fuller is a consultant in gut microecology, basedin Reading, UK; Gabriela Perdigón is based at theCentro de Referencia para Lactobacillus (CERELA) and at the Facultyof Biochemistry, Chemistry and Pharmacy of Tucuman University,Argentina.