Nutrients and foods in AIDS

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"Lack of proper nutrition can severely impact the immune system, especially when it is already compromised. This book defines recent advances in understanding the nutritional deficiencies found in AIDS and HIV-positive patients. It explores the scientific knowledge of how nutritional and dietary changes and herbal medicines can benefit or potentially harm these patients. The text also discusses the negative effects of undernutrition that can lead to starvation, a potent immunosuppressant. Nutri…

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Full title :Nutrients and foods in AIDS / edited by Ronald R. Watson.

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Publication Date:2017.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):CRC Press
Place of Publication:Place of publication not identified
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (256 pages : : 1 illustration

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1351427423, 9781351427425, 9781351427432, 1351427431, 9780138745250, 0138745250, 9780138745257, 9781351427418, 1351427415
DOI:10.1201/9780203745250
oclc:on1017826676
LC Classification:RC607.A26
Dewey Decimal:616.97/920654

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Subjects

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- d… Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- m… AIDS (Disease) -- Diet therapy AIDS (Disease) -- Nutritional aspects MEDICAL -- Infectious Diseases NUTRITION Nutritional Physiological Phenomena Phénomènes physiologiques nutritionnels Sida -- Aspect nutritionnel Sida -- Diétothérapie Syndrome d'immunodéficience acquise -- …