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What is the purpose and target of a handbook? Usually, it is to synthesize the most relevant and current information on a topic and to provide a resource for that relevant and current information or to provide a manual for instruction in that information to be consulted by students, teachers, and research professionals. Our present collection of 38 chapters attempts to address such a mission. However, most of the chapters contribute only a piece to a larger jigsaw puzzle. Now that all the pieces have been laid into place, I have been given the task to step back and survey the overall image in the assembled portrait of nutrition and immunology in the context of the future. In this respect, what we know today and know how to do today are the prologue for the next decade into the next millennium.
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Solomons, N.W. (2000). Whither Nutrition and Immunology Interactions Toward the Next Millennium? What Is Past Is Prologue. In: Gershwin, M.E., German, J.B., Keen, C.L. (eds) Nutrition and Immunology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-709-3_38
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