1. The document is a message from a person's liver describing the important functions it performs for the body like storing nutrients, producing bile for digestion, detoxifying harmful substances, and producing blood and proteins. 2. The liver pleads with the person to take care of it by avoiding excessive alcohol, drugs, fatty foods, and chemical exposures which can permanently scar or damage the liver. 3. The liver warns that it cannot indicate problems until severe damage has occurred, so the person should see a doctor regularly for liver screenings to check for any issues.

1. 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？
永恒的回憶

2. Hi... I'm Your Liver!
嗨﹍我是您的肝臟！
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。
好痛!無法深
呼吸、打噴
嚏、哈哈大
笑
1991年，我的肝臟原生性癌細胞腫瘤；醫學稱之H.C.C.
位置如圖:6 X 5 X 4.5公分，切除存活至今。(C.F.M.)

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

4. 2.我促使膽囊消
化您所吃進來 2. I make bile to
的食物。
help digest your
food.
Without
me, you'd waste
away to nothing.
沒有我您會骨瘦如柴
、衰弱，直至死亡。

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. 9.我無分晝夜地協 9. I help defend you against
助您抵抗入侵的各 the germs going into your
種細／病菌，殺死 body all the time. I take
或削弱它們。
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
沒有我，
sitting duck for every
您會成為人類各種感染
疾病的『眾矢之的』。 infection known to man.

12. 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？

13. 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。

14. 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。

15. • 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。
• 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。

16. 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！

17. 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。

18. 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。

19. 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！

20. 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。

21. 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
您沈默的伙伴和永遠愛您的情人﹍肝臟
敬啟