(人造化学物质会干扰人类的荷尔蒙运作.docVIP

The bottom line The central point of the Our Stolen Future is that some man-made chemicals interfere with the bodys own hormones. These compounds find their way into our bodies through a variety of pathways. They build up over time, often over years. (人造化學物質會干擾人類的荷爾蒙運作，通常具有長期累積性) When a woman becomes pregnant, some fraction of her contaminant burden is transferred to the fetus. When this happens they interfere with the hormonal signals directing development and thus disrupt fetal growth. Sometimes the effects are conspicuous, sometimes they are not. (影響受污染胎兒的發育，明顯或不明顯) Some of these chemicals alter sexual development. Some undermine intelligence and behavior. Others make our bodies less resistant to disease. Sometimes the effects dont appear until a child reaches puberty or afterward, even though the exposure took place in the womb. (可能影響性別發育、智能、行為、免疫力；也許遲至青春期才顯現) These chemicals pose the greatest hazard in the earliest phases of life because hormones orchestrate development and because fetal development is exquisitely sensitive to tiny variations in hormone signals. For a fetus to grow up according to its genetic blueprint, the right hormone message has to arrive at the right place in the right amount at the right time. (生長激素的種類、出現點、含量、時機都是胎兒發育的影響因子，且些微變化就有巨大效應) The emerging science we present in Our Stolen Future is about what happens when something interferes with the delivery of that message. A signal doesnt arrive because it is blocked. One that was small becomes large. One that shouldnt have been there at all shows up nonetheless. (生長激素的干擾，神經訊息因受阻擋而中斷，產生的後果) The first nine chapters of the book examine a chain of evidence that extends from wildlife populations to laboratory experiments to the epidemiology of exposed groups of people. Theres not a lot in these sections that is controversial. (由野生動物至實驗室，以及人類暴露接觸的流行病學所得到的證據無太大爭議) We are working from a data base of over 4,000 scientific publications. Over 100 scientists have participated directly in deliberations