Dietary supplement labels can make claims about how the dietary supplement may affect the structure or the function of the body, but not claims to treat or cure a disease.

饮食补剂标签会明示该补剂对人体构造或功能有何种影响，但不会宣称该补剂能够治疗甚至治好疾病。

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She's an ordinary mother of three with a specific psychological impairment, the result of a very rare genetic disease that damaged a brain structure called the amygdale.

她是一位有三个小孩的普通母亲，患有特殊心理障碍疾病。专家研究结果表明这种疾病是一种罕见的遗传病，导致她的大脑组织扁桃体受到了破坏。

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Prions cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (or “mad cow disease” in cattle) by rearranging the structure of normal proteins in their own image.

朊病毒通过按照自身结构重建正常蛋白结构来引发雅克氏病（或在牛身上引发“疯牛病”）。

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Ever since Watson and Crick first elucidated the structure of DNA in 1953, medical science has made enormous strides in understanding the basic biological mechanisms of disease.

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But the Food and Drug Administration does not prospectively review food claims because American law says that foods are allowed to affect the "structure and function" of the body, so long as they do not actually claim to treat disease.

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