SSS 2010-11-23
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(十一)月
This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute.
The elderly suffer from an alarming epidemic 1. A third of people over 65 fall at least once a year. Half of those fall more frequently. Exercise can help, especially when they exercise to this. That’s right, the elderly gain a better sense of balance when they exercise to piano music. The research was published online in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Scientists in Switzerland recruited 134 adults—average age about 75. For six months, half took a weekly hour-long class that focused on balance. They worked out to the piano, changing movements in response to changes in the beat. The exercises got progressively more difficult. The other group continued with their regular activities for six months.
Then the two groups switched. Those who worked out to tunes 2 improved their gait and had longer and more stable strides. Overall, the first music-exercising group experienced half as many falls as the control group. But when the control group started striding to songs six months in, they gained the same benefits. Ninety-six percent of the participants exercising to the dulcet 3 tones of the piano were women. So it remains 4 to be seen if piano music can help men stay upright too.
Thanks for the minute. For Scientific American’s 60-Second Science, I’m Cynthia Graber.
- That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
- The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。
- a potpourri of tunes 乐曲集锦
- When things get a bit too much, she simply tunes out temporarily. 碰到事情太棘手时，她干脆暂时撒手不管。 来自《简明英汉词典》