Abstract
Why are we interested in what people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired immunodeficiency virus syndrome (AIDS) eat? Interest in what people with HIV infection and AIDS eat focuses on the possibility that by consuming a certain type of diet, or by ingesting a certain amount of a particular nutrient, the HIV-positive individual can live longer. This is not an unreasonable suggestion since there is a popular belief that evidence exists for an ‘anti-heart disease diet’, so why not an ‘anti-AIDS diet’?
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