PART ONE: The Immune System

SECTION ONE: The immune system - An overview, G Devereux, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, UK

SECTION TWO: Evaluation of the effects of nutrients on immune function, S Cunningham-Rundles, Cornell University Weill Medical College, USA

PART TWO: Individual Nutrients, Infection and Immune Function

SECTION THREE: Effect of post-natal protein malnutrition and intrauterine growth retardation on immunity and risk of infection, R K Chandra, Janeway Child Health Centre, St John’s, NF, Canada

SECTION FOUR: Fatty acids, inflammation and immunity, P C Calder and C J Field

SECTION FIVE: Arginine and immune function, M D Duff and J M Daly, Cornell University, USA

SECTION SIX: Glutamine and immune function, P C Calder and P Newsholme, University College of Dublin, Ireland

SECTION SEVEN: Sulphur amino acids, glutathione and immune function, R F Grimble, University of Southampton, UK

SECTION EIGHT: Vitamin A, infection and immune funtion, R D Semba, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA

SECTION NINE: Antioxidant vitamins and immune function, D A Hughes, Institute of Food Research, Norwich, UK

SECTION TEN: Zinc, infection and immune function, A S Prasad, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, USA

SECTION ELEVEN: Role of iron in immunity and infection, S Kuvibidila, Louisiana State University, USA and B S Baliga, University of South Alabama, USA

SECTION TWELVE: Selenium and the immune system, R C McKenzie, University of Edinburgh, UK, J R Arthur, Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen, UK, S M Miller, T S Rafferty and G J Beckett, University of Edinburgh, UK

SECTION THIRTEEN: Probiotics and immune function, H S Gill and M L Cross, Massey University, New Zealand

PART THREE: Nutrition and Immunity through the Life Cycle

SECTION FOURTEEN: Role of local immunity and breast feeding in mucosal homeostasis and defence against infection, P Brandtzaeg, University of Oslo, Norway

SECTION FIFTEEN: Food allergy, E Opara, Kingston University, UK

SECTION SIXTEEN: Exercise and immune function - effect of nutrition, E W Petersen and B K Pederson, Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre, Denmark

SECTION SEVENTEEN: Nutrition and aging of the immune system, B Lesourd, A Raynaud-Simon and L Mazari, Hopital Nord du CHU de Clermont Ferrand, France

SECTION EIGHTEEN: Nutrition and immunity - Public health implications, A Tomkins, Centre for International Child Health, London, UK