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Exercise Can Replace Insulin for Elderly Diabetics

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 Rigshospitalet's Center for Muscle Research showed that physical exercise can boost the body's ability to utilize insulin by 30 percent, the newspaper reported.
This is equal tol 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 It ,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 utilize as a measure for howwell 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 on-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 is a 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.

单选题 How could most elderly type II diabetics stop taking insulin?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】文章一开始就有此问题的明确答案。至于吃多少盐或者从事其他剧烈运动文章自始至终都没有提到。
单选题 Physical exercise may increase the body ability to utilize insulin by______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】文章第二段说到,体育锻炼能将身体利用胰岛素的能力提高30%。
单选题 The subjects of the research tests conducted at the Copenhagen Central Hospital included______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】此题答案在文章第四段,实验对象既有II型糖尿病患者,也有健康人,而且都是60岁以上的男人。
单选题 To what a degree have diabetics to exercise in order to achieve the desired effect?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】文章倒数第二段说到,体育锻炼只要达到出汗的程度就能起作用。
单选题 According to Dela, among most diabetics the importance of exercise is______of watching their diet.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】最后一段明确说到,大多数糖尿病患者知道必须注意饮食,但却并不知道体育锻炼的重要性。