Hi... I'm Your Liver! Your Lover! 嗨﹍我是您的肝臟！您的生命！

HOW MUCH DO YOU LOVE YOUR LIVER?  您有多愛您的肝臟？ How Can You Love it, if You Don't Know it? 如果您不瞭解它，您又怎麼去愛它呢？ 

Hi... I'm Your Liver!  Your Lover! 嗨嗨﹍我是您的肝臟！您的生命！Let me tell you how much I love you…in 9 ways. 讓我告訴您我有多愛您﹍九種方式。

 1.  I store the iron reserves you need, as well as a lot of vitamins and other minerals.   Without me, you wouldn't have the strength to carry on! 我儲存您需要的 鐵質和許多維他  命、礦物質等。 沒有我，您就沒有力量的泉源！

 2.  I make bile to help digest your food.     Without me, you'd waste away to nothing. 我促使膽囊消   化您所吃進來 的食物。

沒有我您會骨瘦如柴、衰弱，直至死亡。

 3.  I detoxify poisonous chemicals you give me, and that includes alcohol, beer, wine and drugs (prescribed and over-the-counter) as well as illegal substances.    Without me, your "bad" habits would kill you. 我為您篩濾有害的 毒素，包括酒精飲 料和各類合法或非法的藥品和食物。 沒有我，您的壞習慣會讓您致命。

 4.  I store energy, like a battery, by stockpiling sugar (carbohydrates, glucose and fat) until you need it. Without  me, the sugar level  in your blood could  fall dramatically and  you'd go into a  coma. 我像電瓶一般儲存能量   （如：醣類、葡萄糖和   油脂），在您需要它們   時，適時提供。 沒有我，您的血醣會驟降，而且還可能進入昏迷狀態。

 5.  I make the blood that got your system going even before you were born.     Without me, you wouldn't be here! 5.我促使血液在您全身  各器官正常運作，甚至在您出生之前就開始照顧您。 有了我，才有今天的您！ 

6.  I manufacture new proteins that your body needs to stay healthy and grow.    Without me, you wouldn't grow properly! 我為您製造所需之蛋白質，讓您持續保有健康和成長。 沒有我，您不可能正常發育。

 7.  I remove poisons from the air, exhaust smoke and chemicals you breathe.      Without me, you'd be poisoned by pollutants! 我將您從空氣中吸入的廢氣和化學等有毒物質，自體內移除。 沒有我，您將被污染物質所毒害！

 8.  I make clotting factors that stop the bleeding when you accidentally prick yourself.     Without me, you'd bleed to death! 我促進凝血的功能，使得您在意外受傷出血時，能產生止血的功效。 沒有我，您會因出血不止而死！

 9.  I help defend you against the germs going into your body all the time. I take those cold germs, flu bugs and other germs you encounter, and knock them dead - or at least weaken them. Without me, you'd be a sitting duck for every infection known to man. 我無分晝夜地協助您抵抗入侵的各種細／病菌，殺死或削弱它們。 沒有我，您會成為人類各種感染疾病的『眾矢之的』。 

That's how much I love you... 以上就說明了我有多麼的愛您﹍  But do you love me? 然而，您有愛我嗎？

 Let me tell you some easy ways to love me, your liver. 讓我告訴您一些愛我（您的肝臟）的方式。

 Don't drown me in beer,  alcohol or wine! 不要讓我沈溺在酒精飲料之中！

Even one drink is too much for some people and could scar me for life.  甚至對某些人而言，一小口也是過多了，這可能在我生命之中造成無法抹滅的傷痛。

I scar easily.. and those scars, called "cirrhosis" are permanent.  我很容易受傷﹍這些傷害是永遠的致命傷，它叫〝肝硬化〞。

Medicine is sometimes necessary. But taking pills when they aren't necessary is a bad habit. All those chemicals can really hurt a liver. 有時服用藥品是必要的。但是不需服用的藥品成為服用的壞習慣時，這些化學物可能真的傷害到肝臟了。

 Watch those drugs! All drugs are chemicals, and when you mix them up without a doctor's advice you could create something poisonous that could damage me badly. 注意藥品的服用！ 所有的藥品都是化學物，當您沒有請教醫生而亂服時，您可能已經中毒了，而我所受到的傷害會是更深。

 Be careful with aerosol sprays!  注意噴霧劑的使用！

 Remember, I have to detoxify what you breathe in, too. So when you are cleaning with aerosol cleaners, make sure the room is ventilated, or wear a mask. 切記，我對您吸入的氣體也必須做濾毒的工作。所以當您使用清潔劑時，屋內的空氣必須流通，或請戴上口罩。  

That goes double for bug sprays, mildew sprays, paint sprays and all those other chemical  sprays you use. Be careful what you breathe!   殺蟲劑、防霉劑、噴漆和其他化學噴劑會加倍的傷害肝臟。要注意，不要讓它們被吸入體內！

 Watch what gets on your skin!  Those insecticides you put on trees and shrubs not only kill bugs they can get to me right through your skin and destroy my cells, too. Remember they're all chemicals. 注意附在您皮膚上的東西！那些噴灑在樹叢的殺蟲劑不只是殺蟲而已，他們也會透過您的皮膚摧毀我的細胞。切記！他們都是化學製劑。

 Cover your skin with gloves, long sleeves, a hat and mask every time insecticides are in the air or if you're handling them. 當您在噴灑殺蟲劑時，務必要戴手套、帽子、口罩和穿長袖衣服，把皮膚遮蓋起來。

 Don't eat too much fatty food! I make the cholesterol your body needs, and I try to make the right amount.  不要吃太油膩的食物！我會提供您身體所需的膽固醇，並且會做適量的調配。  

 Give me a break. Eat a good, well balanced nourishing diet. If you eat the right stuff for me, I'll really do my stuff for you! 讓我有喘息的機會去吸收有益，而且均衡滋養的食物。如果您為我吃對了食物，我也一定為您盡忠職守、肝腦塗地。

WARNING: 警告：

I can't and won't tell you I'm in trouble until I'm almost at the end of my rope... and yours. Remember: I am a non-complainer.  Overloading me with drugs, alcohol and other junk can destroy me! This may be the only warning you will ever get. 我不能，也不會告訴您我有了麻煩，除非你我幾乎均已〝走投無路〞了。記住：我是一個〝任勞任怨〞者，過量的藥物、酒精飲料和一些毒品會把我給毀了！這就是您所獲得的唯一警告了！

Take My Advice, Please!   請接受我的建議！

 Check me out with your doctor.  請您的醫生為我作檢查。

 Blood screening tests can identify some trouble.  做血液拴篩測試可能會找出一些問題。

 If I'm soft and smooth, that's good. If I'm hard and bumpy, that could mean trouble. 如果我是柔軟、平滑，就表示我很健康。如果堅硬不平，就可能出了問題。 

If your doctor suspects trouble, ULTRA SOUND and CT scans can look into it.  如果您的醫生產生疑慮時，可以超音波和電腦斷層掃描來做觀察。

 My life, and yours, depends on how you treat me.我和您一生的幸福就靠您如何對待我了。

 Now you know how much I care for you. 現在您瞭解我有多麼地關心、照顧您。

Please treat me with tender loving care. 請您也好好愛我。

 Your silent partner and ever-loving lover …. LIVER 您沈默的生命伙伴和永遠愛您的情人﹍肝臟  敬啟