ABSTRACT
Daily food habits can provide imbalanced nutrients in ways that impair health and cause the signs and symptoms of many chronic diseases that health professionals treat. Effective health care is more likely when preventing the cause rather than just treating symptoms created by the cause. Also, it seems unethical to remove symptoms and create a sense of benet while leaving the primary cause unchanged to continue harming individuals and their future generations. This chapter considers some chronic immune-inammatory processes modulated by foods. The challenge is to identify explicit molecular connections by which nutrient imbalances cause the clinical conditions so that we can prevent the causal imbalance and maintain health. Healthy people do not need treatments.
