This book was written to provide a thorough overview of clinical nutrition and immunology to allow the reader to become knowledgeable in this evolving and complex area of medicine. The reader, whether a clinician, student, teacher, or researcher, will find this book comprehensive and up to date.The disease-specific chapters have been written to focus attention on novel approaches to nutrient-immune system interactions that affect specific diseases. This includes the identification of immunologic actions that can be influenced by nutrition. Specific nutrient chapters were written by experienced investigators to provide the reader with an understanding of the current role of nutrients in the immune system with both clinical and research applications. Throughout the book, the authors actively emphasize new frontiers for research and practical use of new findings in the fields of nutritional medicine and nutritional pharmacology.

R. Armour Forse, M.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. He is also Chief of the Division of General Surgery and Director of the Surgical Metabolism Laboratory at the Deaconess Hospital in Boston. Dr. Forse's major research interests are related to energy and nutritional assessment of patients, nutritional support in sepsis and trauma, lipid metabolism during sepsis, adrenergic and insulin receptor function during sepsis, and metabolism and treatment of the morbidly obese. He has co-authored more than 85 papers, 20 book chapters, and 63 published abstracts. He regularly lectures to area medical students and residents and speaks around the country and internationally.