出生月份影響健康 水瓶座寶寶易生病

When you’re planning a family, there are many issues to consider – and now it seems the list is even longer. For scientists suggest that more thought should be given to the timing of a child’s arrival. According to their research, the month in which babies are born could affect everything from intelligence to length of life.

近日，電視劇《裸婚時代》熱播後在當今80後年輕人中激起了巨大反響，揹着“房奴”“卡奴”的80後們已經到了或者即將面臨的結婚的年紀。結婚生子可能也是在婚姻中必不可少的環節，在生寶寶之前要考慮的事情太多太多，根據科學家們的最新研究發現，孩子出生的月份與孩子的健康狀況有着密不可分的關係，因爲出生月份能夠影響寶寶的智商、健康以及壽命呢。

Spring babies are at greater risk of a host of ills, including asthma, autism, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease. They may also be less clever than classmates born in other seasons as well as being outlived by autumn-born friends. Scientists believe many of the differences can be explained by the mother’s exposure to sunlight in pregnancy. Sunlight triggers the production of vitamin D in the body and lack of this in the first months of life may have long-lasting effects on mental and physical health.

據悉，研究發現，春季出生的孩子患病的機率會更高，“水瓶座”的孩子們有可能面臨更高的哮喘、孤獨症、精神分裂症、多發性硬化以及阿爾茨海默氏症等一系列疾病風險。而且，他們的智商也低於其他季節出生的孩子，壽命也不及秋季出生的孩子。而這一切，科學家認爲不同季節出生的孩子之間的在“體質上”的很多差異是和母親懷孕期間的所受到的“陽光照射量”有關。據悉，陽光可促使體內產生維生素D，在生命之初缺少維生素D可能對心理和生理健康產生長期影響。

The ‘sunshine vitamin’ is known to help regulate thousands of genes during development and a wealth of research backs up its long-lasting influence on health. This includes a study of more than two million Danes and Austrians, who died between 1970 and 2000. This found those born from April to June typically had slightly shorter lives than those born in October, November and December. Similar studies in the U.S. showed that those born in autumn lived about 160 days longer than those born in spring. A child’s season of birth is also strongly linked to the development of multiple sclerosis, with the biggest effects seen at northern latitudes where sunlight is scarce. 　　

根據針對超過200萬自1970出生------2000年去世的丹麥人和澳大利亞人進行的一項研究中發現，所謂的“陽光維生素”（也就是維生素D）可在嬰兒發育期間幫助調節體內的數千種基因，能夠對健康產生長期積極影響。研究顯示，4月至6月出生的孩子壽命略短於10月、11月和12月出生的孩子。然而在美國進行的類似研究發現，秋季出生的孩子壽命比春季出生的孩子長大約160天。

Professor Russell Foster, an Oxford University neuroscientist and expert on seasonal biology, said the conclusions were ‘surprising and remarkable’. He added: ‘These are small effects but they are very, very clear. I am not giving voice to astrology – it’s nonsense – but we are not immune to seasonal interference.’

牛津大學神經學家和季節生物學專家Russell Foster教授表示：“這些研究發現引人注目，令人吃驚。他指出：“影響雖小但卻非常明顯。請大家別誤會，我並不是星座或者所謂的占星術的推崇者，那些都是人們編出來騙人的，然而，出生季節這個東西，是大家都無法左右的，季節對出生嬰兒的體質有着重要影響。”