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Military Strategies for Sustainment of Nutrition and Immune Function in the Field
Pages 45-48

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... In fact, during major wars, infectious diseases usually have accounted for more noneffective days than combat wounds or nonbattle injuries. Combined stressors may reduce the normal ability of soldiers to resist pathogens, may increase susceptibility to biological agents employed against them, and may reduce effectiveness of vaccines intended to protect them.
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... was tasked with assessing the current state of knowledge about immune function to ascertain how military stresses (including food deprivation) could impact unfavorably upon these functions and to evaluate ongoing research efforts by USARIEM scientists to study immune status in Special Forces troops.
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... · Nutritional anemias should be treated prior to deployment and individuals classified as anemic and requiring iron supplements should not be deployed. · Develop and implement nutrition education programs targeted at highrisk military groups, such as Special Forces troops and female soldiers, to communicate information regarding healthy eating habits and supplement use.
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... for monitoring nutritionally induced immune responses, particularly the presence of acute-phase reactions and changes in immune function of the type and degree that are likely to occur as a result of the nutritional insults suffered by soldiers in typical deployment situations. · Carefully design research protocols.
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