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2011年卫生类职称英语教材新增文章下载 阅读理解新增文章（共4篇） 目录： 第十八篇(B级)：Exercise Can Replace Insulin for Elderly Diabetics第二十四篇(B级)：Preventing Chlid Maltreatment 第十八篇 Exercise Can Replace Insulin for Elderly Diabetics 　　Most older people with so-called typeⅡdiabetes could stop taking insulin if they would do brisk exercise for 30 minutes iust 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 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 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.2 　　Associate Professor3 Dr. Hemming Dela of the Muscle Research Center said 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