title: UK food standards agency workshop report: diet and immune function.
abstract: The UK Food Standards Agency convened a workshop on 13 May 2009 to discuss recently completed research on diet and immune function. The objective of the workshop was to review this research and to establish priorities for future research. Several of the trials presented at the workshop showed some effect of nutritional interventions (e.g. vitamin D, Zn, Se) on immune parameters. One trial found that increased fruit and vegetable intake may improve the antibody response to pneumococcal vaccination in older people. The workshop highlighted the need to further clarify the potential public health relevance of observed nutrition-related changes in immune function, e.g. susceptibility to infections and infectious morbidity.
authors.affiliation: Nutrition Division, Food Standards Agency, 125 Kingsway, London WC2 6NH, UK.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sanderson
authors.forename: Rachel L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Elsom
authors.forename: Verity
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kirkpatrick
authors.forename: Philip C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Calder
authors.forename: Jayne V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Woodside
authors.forename: Elizabeth A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: Lothar
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rink
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fairweather-Tait
authors.forename: Kamal
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ivory
authors.forename: Margherita
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cantorna
authors.forename: Bernhard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Watzl
authors.forename: Elaine M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Stone
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000276:immunology; D000917:Antibody Formation / Q000276:immunology; D004032:Diet; D005502:Food / Q000592:standards; D005638:Fruit; D006077:Government Agencies; D006801:Humans; D007109:Immunity / Q000502:physiology; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena / Q000502:physiology; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012643:Selenium; D006113:United Kingdom; D014612:Vaccines / Q000276:immunology; D014675:Vegetables; D014807:Vitamin D; D014815:Vitamins; D015032:Zinc
chemical_list: D014612:Vaccines; D014815:Vitamins; D014807:Vitamin D; D012643:Selenium; D015032:Zinc