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Article: LIFESTYLE PERKS UP IMMUNE SYSTEM.(Living Today)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- November 28, 1989
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Byline: Joan McQueeney Mitric Maturity News Service
Scientists hope new knowledge about the way the immune system's microscopic army guards against disease will help unleash and prolong the body's protective forces.
Most researchers agree some of our capacity to ward off disease is inherited at birth. But some think the beneficial effects of this built-in immune system may be revved up or even prolonged by the food and lifestyle choices we make.
The immune system - a complex, interlocking network capable of distinguishing between the host and other, "foreign," invaders - responds by sending helper cells to the site of a cut, infection, cold ...