西部落：让孩子“绿色地”长大（在线收听）

Raise Green Kids

Deirdre Imus talks about her book "Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Health Care".

Sam: Now our count it down to Earth Day. We are showing you how to green in every aspect of your life, how to go green. And we are kicking off this series this morning with Deirdre Imus, the author of "Growing Up Green!---Baby and Child Care". Now her book is a roadmap for how to raise all of our children in a healthy and environmentally friendly way. It's packed with really wonderful tips. We are just goanna show you some of them here but I have to admit already I have a crush on you, Deirdre Imus, and I`ll tell down that I am sorry but I really do, I, even before I met you I did, because these are such great ideas. But...

D.I.: Thank you, thank you. Sam.

Sam: Tell me why is it even important for us to be thinking about raising a child environmentally friendly from day one. Why is that important?

D.I.: It's important because our children are being exposed in all directions from their food, everyday products, cleaning products everything in the home. The air, our soil, our water is polluted. Many these products in our food chain has carcinogens and neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters, hormone disrupters , so it makes sense to use at least some of toxicity with everything you do with your children for alive.

Sam: And reading this, it starts to make sense to me because we have somebody crying in the studio. It starts to make sense to me because (Oh, baby) you smell the product when you spray, it smells harsh to you, but the kids are on the floor, (Right!) they have their mouth on the table, they are actually ingesting all these stuff. Let's start with the house cleaning products and do we get the chemicals out of these products?

D.I.: Yes, these products are all non-toxic products, the great example here of hand dish, distilled white vinegar which has been around for years, and then non-toxical purpose cleaners. The difference with the green and non-toxic cleaning products is that they do not contain chlorine bleach (alright) or ammonia or any of those synthetic chemicals.

Sam: Those are two that we are really worried about, chlorine and ammonia.

D.I.: Really. Especially chlorine bleach for moms that have little babies and pets. It's a low-lying chemical, which means it`s at around our knees here. It stays at that level where your child's mouth is breathing, (inhaling) a young child. So it's much more detrimental to children.

Sam: I love your tip that cleaning products should look like water because if they don't, then they have chemicals and false colorings and everything else, sort of. So they should look clear like that. I didn't think about that.

D.I.: Unless they use vegetable dye for their colorings, they are naturally going to be clear. Otherwise they have synthetic chemicals that are very harmful.

Sam: I didn't even think about that.

Sam: Now glass bottles. This was the biggest news yesterday with the plastic bottles, glass bottles and baby food, organic baby food. Tell me why organic food`s important.

D.I.: Organic food is important because organic means that all the food that you are feeding your child does not have pesticides. Again, pesticides are known carcinogens and neurotoxin and are totally in links from studies with all the children's illnesses that will happen. It smells good, right?

Sam: It does smell good.

D.I.: "EARTHS BEST" (the trademark of an organic food for children) has been around, this is what I fed my son, my nine-year-old son and I've even eaten this baby food, there's a study that was done where they found in conventional baby food over 16 different pesticides, just in a jar of baby food.

Sam: See, and let's see, let's say that again, because when I read that this morning, getting ready for your interview, that really shocked me. Sixteen in a test of baby food, regular baby food. (Right!) How many pesticides did they found?

D.I.: Sixteen they found. And pesticides are known carcinogens and neurotoxins and are linked to everything from cancer, to autism, to learning disabilities, allergies, asthma.

Sam: Well, let's be fair, this cost more money than regular baby food right now, by about how much?

D.I.: Well it does cost a little more, but also you can buy them in bulk. You can go to certain stores, health food stores now that they are more cost-competitive and of course now Gerber has an organic line as well. Sam: OK, that's helpful.

D.I.: So,there`s alternative, but you can make your own baby food. I did that as, when my child was a baby, it's easy to make, just mashing up the yams and the potatoes and the green vegetables. It`s, it`s easy.

Sam: so in that way, it isn't more expensive. And you can keep ...

D.I.: No, it's not.

D.I.: So a lot of them you can put in glass jars at home, and it`s, you save money.

Sam: There are so many more tips in this book, there,from the school stuff that we just... I wanted to talk about this. This really bothered me when I heard about this from....

D.I.: Well, the baby bottles are big thing too, glass bottles are the gold standard for baby bottles. I highly recommend glass. For whatever reason, if someone doesn't want glass and there is healthier plastic bottles, but still it's plastic. They've taken out the major chemicals in them but they are still toxic.

Sam: We'll link you if you are interested in this topic to her book and everything else you need to know in abcnews.com. This was just wonderful. Again, (Thank you!) there`s one of the reasons, one of the reasons that I have a crush on you!

kick off: Originally means to make the kick that begins a football game. But here just means to start, to begin.

carcinogen: A cancer-causing substance or agent.

neurotoxin: A toxin that damages or destroys nerve tissue.

endocrine : The secretion of an endocrine gland; a hormone.

Sam：现在距离地球清洁日的时间已经屈指可数了。我们将向您展示怎样绿化生活中的方方面面，怎样进行绿化。今天上午的节目中我们邀请《让孩子绿色地长大》一书的作者Deirdre Imus参加。现在，她的书成为我们怎样让我们的孩子以健康和环境友好的方式长大的路标。书中确实介绍了很多不错的点子。稍后我们将向你介绍其中的一些方法，但是，首先我要承认，我非常迷恋你，Deirdre Imus，我必须坦诚非常抱歉，但是确实是这样，甚至在见到你之前我就已经迷恋你了，因为这些主意真的很棒。但是……

Deirdre Imus：谢谢，谢谢你，Sam。

Sam：跟我们说一些，为什么从第一天开始，我们就必须考虑让孩子环境友好地长大？为什么这一点非常重要？

Deirdre Imus：这一点很重要，因为我们的孩子方方面面暴露在他们的饮食，日常用品，清洁用品等等家里的一切东西中。空气，土壤和水都遭到污染。我们食物链中的许多产品都含有致癌物质，神经毒素和内分泌破坏素，荷尔蒙破坏素，所以，孩子生长过程中所需要的东西都或多或少含有毒性物质。

Sam：读一下这本书，我开始弄明白了。因为有人正在工作室里呼吁。我开始明白，当你向房间中喷射什么物质的时候，你闻起来可能不是那么舒服，但是孩子们也在房间里，他们也在吃饭，他们也摄取了所有物质。让我们从这些家庭清洁用品开始。所有这些产品中的化学物质都清除了吗？

Deirdre Imus：是的，所有这些产品都不含有毒物质，这里最好的例子就是洗手液，这种经过蒸馏的白醋已经出品了好几年了，是完全无毒的洗涤产品。绿色和无毒洗涤产品与其他产品的不同之处在于，它们不含氯仿，氨水等漂白物质或者其他任何人工合成的化学物质。

Sam：我们最担心的两种物质就是氯仿和氨水。

Deirdre Imus：确实是。对有宝宝和宠物的妈妈来说，氯仿最有害。这种物质密度很低，大约停留在我们膝盖的位置。正是在这种高度下，孩子在呼吸。所以这对孩子来说危害更大。

Sam:我很喜欢你的观点，洗化产品看上去应该像水一样，因为如果不是的话，肯定含有化学物质和色素以及其他类似的物质。所以他们看上去应该像水一样清澈。我没有想到过这一点。

Deirdre Imus：除非他们是用蔬菜燃料来添加颜色，采用这种方式处理就会比较清洁。否则肯定含有非常有害的人工合成化学物质。

Sam:我甚至连这一点都没想到。

Sam:现在再看一下玻璃瓶。昨天，玻璃瓶，塑料瓶和婴儿食品，有机婴儿食品是最大的新闻。告诉我们为什么有机食品很重要。

Deirdre Imus：有机食品很重要，因为，有机意味着你给孩子吃的食物不含杀虫剂。再强调一次，杀虫剂中含有致癌物质和神经毒素，根据研究，与儿童可能发生的所有疾病都有关联。添加了杀虫剂的食物闻上去味道很好，是吗？

Sam:味道确实不错。

Deirdre Imus：儿童有机食品品牌"EARTHS BEST"到处都能买到，我经常给我9岁的儿子吃这个牌子的食品，甚至我自己都会吃这种婴儿食品。有研究表明，他们在常见的婴儿食品中发现了16种以上不同的杀虫剂，而且仅仅是在一罐婴儿食品中发现的。

Sam:让我想一下，让我们再说一遍，因为今天早上当我准备采访的时候，读到了这些消息，这确实让我很震惊。常规婴儿食品测试中发现16种有害物质。他们发现了多少种杀虫剂？

Deirdre Imus：发现了16种杀虫剂。杀虫剂中含有致癌物质和神经毒素，与癌症，自闭症，学习障碍症，敏感和哮喘都有密切关系。

Sam:公平地说，有机婴儿食品比常规婴儿食品成本要高，大概高多少呢？

Deirdre Imus：有机婴儿食品确实更贵一些，但是你可以大量购买。你可以到一些健康食品专卖店，那里的价格更有优势，当然，现在Gerber已经形成了有机食品行业。

Sam: 好的，这非常有帮助。

Deirdre Imus：所以，是有其他选择的，但是你也可以自制婴儿食物。当我的孩子还是婴儿的时候，我经常自己制作，过程很简单，只是将蕃薯，土豆和绿色蔬菜捣碎就可以了。非常简单。

Sam:这样的话，就不会那么贵了。

Deirdre Imus：是的，一点都不贵。你可以一次性制作很多，保存在玻璃罐里。这样可以帮你省钱。

Sam:这本书里还有很多建议，从学校事务到……我想谈一下这一点。当我听说的时候，真的非常苦恼。

Deirdre Imus：婴儿用的瓶子也非常重要。玻璃瓶是婴儿用瓶的最佳选择。我极力推荐玻璃瓶。无论由于什么原因有人不想使用玻璃瓶，愿意使用相对健康一些的塑料瓶，但是始终是塑料的。生产商或许已经除掉了主要的化学物质，但是塑料还是有毒的。

Sam:如果你对这本书或者其他任何信息感兴趣，可以登录abcnews.com了解。非常精彩，再次感谢你。这就是我迷恋你的原因之一。

单词注解：

kick off：通常情况下指足球比赛中的开始，但是这里指广泛意义上的开始

carcinogen：致癌物质

neurotoxin：神经毒素

endocrine：内分泌的