Exercise Can Replace Insulin for Elderly Diabetics

    Most older people with so-called type H diabetes could stop taking insulin if they would do brisk exercise for 30 minutes just three times a week, according to new medical research results reported in the Copenhagen newspaper Berlingske Tidende on Monday.
    Results from tests conducted on diabetics at the Copenhagen Central Hospital Rigshospitalet"s Center for Muscle Research showed that physical exercise can boost the body"s ability to utilise insulin by 30 per cent, the newspaper reported.
    This is equal to¹ the effect most elderly diabetics get from their insulin medication today，it said.        ‘、
    Researchers had a group of non-diabetic men and a group of men with type n, all more than 60 years of age, exercise on bicycles six times a week for three months. After the three months the doctors measured how much sugar the test subjects" muscles could utilise as a measure for how well their insulin worked.²
     Associate Professor³ Dr. Flemming Dela of the MuscleResearchCentersaid the tests demonstrated that the exercising diabetics had just as high insulin utilisation as the healthy non?exercising persons.
    "This means that the insulin works just as well for both groups. Physical exercise cannot cure people of diabetes,⁴ but it can eliminate almost all their symptoms. At the same time it can put off⁵ the point at which they have to begin taking insulin or perhaps completely avoid insulin treatment，” Dela was quoted as saying.⁶
    Insulin isa hormone produced by the pancreas，controlling sugar in the body and used against diabetes.
　　Dela said that to achieve the desired effect diabetics need only exercise to the point where they begin to work up⁷ a sweat, but that the activity has to be maintained since it wears off⁸ after five days without sufficient exercise.
　　Most diabetics realise that they have to watch their diet while remaining unaware of⁹ the importance of exercise, Dela added.

词汇：

insulin/ ˈɪnsjəlɪn/n. 胰岛素

diabetic/ ˌdaɪəˈbetɪk /adj.(患）糖尿病的；n.糖尿病患者
diabetes /ˌdaɪəˈbi:ti:z/n.糖尿病；多尿症

brisk/brɪsk/adj.轻快的；活泼的，活跃的
Copenhagen/ˌkəʊpən"heɪɡən/n.哥本哈根(丹麦首都）
muscle/ "mʌsl/n..肌肉

utilise / "ju:tɪlaɪz /vt.( = utilize) .利用，使用
medication/ ˌmedɪˈkeɪʃn/n. 药物，药物治疗

subject / "sʌbdʒɪkt/n.实验对象
utilisation ( = utilization)/ ˌju:tɪlaɪ"zeɪʃən/n. .利用，使用
saying/ ˈseɪɪŋ/n. 格言 

hormone/ "hɔ:məʊn/n. 激素

pancreas/ "pæŋkrɪəs/n. 胰腺

注释：

1. be equal to;等于
2.as a measure for how well their insulin worked:作为测量他们的胰岛素工作状况如何的标志。 从语法上分析，how引起的从句是for这个介词的宾语从句。
3.associate professor ：畐lj 教授
4. ... cannot cure people of diabetes:不能治好人们的糖尿病。cure sb. of sth.：给某人医治某 病。例如:liiis medicine should cure you of your cold.这药准能治好你的感冒。
5.put off:推迟，延期
6.Dela was quoted as saying:Dela的话像格言一样被人们所引用。注意谓语是被动语态。
7.work up:逐步引起，激起
8.wear off:逐渐消失
9.(be) unaware of sth.：不知道，没觉察

Physical exercise may increase the body ability to utilise insulin by____

A:70 per cent B:30 per cent C:60 per cent D:only a few per cent

? ?下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每道题后面有4个选项。
{{B}}第一篇{{/B}}

What is the correlation between body weight and heart disease and blood pressure?

A:Ten per cent less body weight means ten per cent less risk of heart disease and high blood pressure. B:Thirteen per cent more body weight means ten per cent more risk of heart disease and high blood pressure. C:The more body weight one gains, the more risk of heart disease and high blood pressure he has. D:The less body weight one gains, the more risk of heart disease and the less risk of high blood pressure he has.

Obesity: the Scourge of the Western World
Obesity is rapidly becoming a new scourge of the western world, delegates agreed at the 11th European Conference on the issue in Vienna Wednesday to Saturday. According to statements before the opening of the conference -- of 2,000 specialists from more than 50 countries -- 1.2 billion people worldwide are overweight, and 250 million are obese.
Professor Bernhard Ludvik of Vienna General Hospital said, "Obesity is a chronic illness, fin Germany, 20 per cent of the people are already affected, but in Japan only one per cent." But he said that there was hope for sufferers thanks to the new scientific discoveries and medication.
Professor Friedrich Hopichler of Salzberg said, "We are living in the new age (but) with the metabolism of a stone-age man." "I have just been to the United States. It is really terrible. A pizza shop is springing up on every corner. We have been overrun by fast food and Coca-Cola-ization. "
Many of the experts stressed that obesity was a potential killer. Hopichler said, "Eighty percent of all diabetics are obese, also fifty per cent of all. patients with high blood pressure and fifty per cent with adipose tissue complaints." "Ten per cent more weight means thirteen per cent more risk of heart disease. Reducing one’s weight by ten per cent leads to thirteen per cent lower blood pressure."
Another expert Hermann Toplak said that the state health services should improve their financing of preventive programs. "Though the health insurance pays for surgery (such as reducing the size of the stomach) when the body-mass index5 is more than 40. That is equivalent to a weight of 116 kilograms for a height of 1.70 meters. One should start earlier."
Ludvik said that prevention should begin in school. "Child obesity ( fat deposits) correlates with the time which children spend in front of TV sets."
The consequences were only apparent later on. No more than fifteen per cent of obese people lived to the average life expectancy for their population group.

What is the correlation between body weight and heart disease and blood pressure（　）

A:Ten per cent less body weight means ten per cent less risk of heart disease and high blood pressure. B:Thirteen per cent more body weight means ten per cent more risk of heart disease and high blood pressure. C:The more body weight one gains, the more risk of heart disease and high blood pressure he has. D:The less body weight one gains, the more risk of heart disease and the less risk of high blood pressure he has.

? ?Most older people with so-called type Ⅱ diabetes could stop taking insulin if they would do brisk exercise for 30 minutes just three times a week, according to new medical research results reported in the Copenhagen newspaper Berlingske Tidende on Monday.
? ?Results from tests conducted on diabetics at the Copenhagen Central Hospital Rigshospitalets Center for Muscle Research showed that physical exercise can boost the body’s ability to utilise insulin by 30 per cent, the newspaper reported.
? ?This is equal to the effect most elderly diabetics get from their insulin medication today, it said.
? ?Researchers had a group of non-diabetic men and a group of men with type II, all more than 60 years of age, exercise on bicycles six times a week for three months. After the three months the doctors measured how much sugar the test subjects muscles could utilise as a measure for how well their insulin worked.
? ?Associate Professor Dr. Flemming Dela of the Muscle Research Center said the tests demonstrated that the exercising diabetics had just as high insulin utilization as the healthy non-exercising persons.
? ?"This means that the insulin works just as well for both groups. Physical exercise cannot cure people of diabetes, but it can eliminate almost all their symptoms. At the same time it can put off the point at which they have to begin taking insulin or perhaps completely avoid insulin treatment," Dela was quoted as saying.
? ?Insulin isa hormone produced by the pancreas, controlling sugar in the body and used against diabetes.
? ?Dela said that to achieve the desired effect diabetics need only exercise to the point where they begin to work up a sweat, but that the activity has to be maintained since it wears off after five days without sufficient exercise.
? ?Most diabetics realize that they have to watch their diet while remaining unaware of the importance of exercise, Dela added.

Physical exercise may increase the body ability to utilise insulin by______.

A:70 per cent B:30 per cent C:60 per cent D:only a few per cent

{{B}}第二篇{{/B}}

What is the correlation between body weight and heart disease and blood pressure?

A:Ten per cent less body weight means ten per cent less risk of heart disease and high blood pressure. B:Thirteen per cent more body weight means ten per cent more risk of heart disease and high blood pressure. C:The more body weight one gains, the more risk of heart disease and high blood pressure he has. D:The less body weight one gains, the more risk of heart disease and the less risk of high blood pressure he has.

{{B}}第三篇{{/B}}

What percentage of the girls considered themselves overweight?

A:Nearly 80 per cent. B:7.2 per cent. C:Nearly 30 per cent. D:10.5 per cent.

{{B}}第二篇{{/B}}

What is the correlation between body weight and heart disease and blood pressure?

A:Ten per cent less body weight means ten per cent less risk of heart disease and high blood pressure. B:Thirteen per cent more body weight means ten per cent more risk of heart disease and high blood pressure. C:The more body weight one gains, the more risk of heart disease and high blood pressure he has. D:The less body weight one gains, the more risk of heart disease and the less risk of high blood pressure he has.

{{B}}第二篇{{/B}}

The baby’s chances of developing cancer were said to be

A:about 11 per cent. B:around 19 per cent. C:less than 25 per cent. D:close to 5 per cent.

第二篇 Brain-dead Mother Dies after Giving Birth 　　A brain-dead woman who was kept alive for three months so she could deliver the child she was carrying was removed from life support on Wednesday and died, a day after giving birth. 　　"This is obviously a bittersweet time for our family," Justin Torres, the woman’s brother-in-law, said in a statement. 　　Susan Torres， a cancer-stricken， 26-year-old researcher at the National Institutes of Health， suffered a stroke in May after the melanoma （黑瘤） spread to her brain. 　　Her family decided to keep her alive to give her foetus （胎儿） a chance. It became a race between the foetus’ development and the cancer that was destroying the woman’s body. 　　Doctors said that Torres’ health was getting worse and that the risk of harm to the foetus finally outweighed the benefits of extending the pregnancy. 　　Torres gave birth to a daughter by Caesarean section （剖腹产手术） on Tuesday at Virginia Hospital Center. The baby was two months premature and weighed about a kilogram. She was in the newborn intensive care unit. 　　Dr Donna Tilden-Archer， the hospital’s director of neonatology （新生儿学）， described the child as "very vigorous." She said the baby had responded when she received stimulation， indicating she was healthy. 　　Doctors removed Torres from life support early Wednesday with the consent of her husband， Jason Tortes， after she received the final sacrament （圣礼） of the RomanCatholic Church. 　　"We thank all of those who prayed and provided support for Susan, the baby and our family," Jason Torres said in a statement. "We especially thank God for giving us little Susan. My wife’s courage will never be forgotten."English-language medical literature contains at least 11 cases since 1979 ofirreversibly brain-damaged women whose lives were prolonged for the benefit of thedeveloping foetus, according to the University of Connecticut Health Center. 　　Dr Christopher McManus, who coordinated care 1"or Susan Torres, put the infant’s chances of developing cancer at less than 25 per cent. He said 19 women who have had the same aggressive form of melanoma as Tortes have given birth, and five of their babies became ill with the disease. The baby’s chances of developing cancer were said to be

A:about 11 per cent B:around 19 per cent. C:less than 25 per cent. D:close to 5 per cent.