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Yes, but the benefits far outweigh the risks. Exercise changes the way your body reacts to insulin. Regular exercise makes your body more sensitive to insulin, and your blood sugar level may get too low (called hypoglycemia) after exercising. You may need to check your blood sugar level before and after exercising. Your doctor can tell you what your blood sugar level should be before and after exercise.

If your blood sugar level is too low or too high right before you plan to exercise, it's better to wait until the level improves. It is especially important to watch your blood sugar level if you exercise in really hot or cold conditions, because the temperature changes how your body absorbs insulin.

Talk to your doctor about what kind of exercise is right for you. The type of exercise you can do will mainly depend on whether you have any other health problems. Most doctors recommend aerobic exercise, which makes you breathe more deeply and makes your heart work harder. Examples of aerobic exercise include walking, jogging, aerobic dance or bicycling. If you have problems with the nerves in your feet or legs, your doctor may want you to do a type of exercise that won't put too much stress on your feet. These exercises include swimming, bicycling, rowing or chair exercises.

No matter what kind of exercise you do, you should warm up before you start and cool down when you're done. To warm up, spend 5 to 10 minutes doing a low-intensity exercise such as walking. Then gently stretch for another 5 to 10 minutes. Repeat these steps after exercising to cool down.

When you start an exercise program, go slowly. Gradually increase the intensity and length of your workout as you get more fit. Talk to your doctor for specific advice.

Diabetes is a disease that occurs when a person’s body doesn’t make enough of the hormone insulin or can’t use insulin properly. There are 2 types of diabetes. Type 1 diabetes occurs when your body’s pancreas doesn’t produce any insulin. Type 2 diabetes occurs when the pancreas either doesn’t produce enough insulin or your body’s cells ignore the insulin. Between 90% and 95% of people who are diagnosed with diabetes have type 2 diabetes.

When you digest food, your body changes most of the food you eat into glucose (a form of sugar). Insulin allows this glucose to enter all the cells of your body and be used as energy. When you have diabetes, your body doesn’t make enough insulin or can’t use it properly, so the glucose builds up in your blood instead of moving into the cells. Too much glucose in the blood can lead to serious health problems.

Here is an interesting article which shows that grammar correction is not very effective in improving language skills.

My own experience does not entirely agree with this article. I have found that some feedback on my writing and speaking can be helpful. It is not so much the explanations, but the constant reminders of my mistakes, which gradually help me to notice things in my listening and reading. It also seems to me that the acts of writing and speaking are in themselves beneficial to learning,with or without correction. But for improvement to take place,the learner has to start noticing what is happening in the language. In this regard, correction as a form of feedback can be useful, as long as there is no expectation that correction will lead to mistakes disappearing as an immediate result of the correction.

In short, teachers need to train themselves to set aside their red pens and examine ideas and see what students are trying to say instead of simply looking for grammatical errors.

If ESL/EFL writing teachers are really concerned with improving their student's grammatical competency, they should, in lieu of offering grammar correction feedback, constantly stress in their classes the importance of outside reading. Studies have shown that voluntary, 'light,' authentic reading (graphic novels, comics, the easy section of newspapers, popular literature) in the target language greatly helps the overall writing and grammatical skills of second language students.

Teaching writing can be a very taxing and time-consuming process. Minimizing grammatical error feedback has the advantage of greatly simplifying teachers jobs, giving them needed time to spend on concentrating on other important elements of the writing process, while also removing a significant impediment to their students learning how to effectively write.

Everyone agreed to the proposition bar old Mr.Thompson

Nothing barring a major catastrophe can prevent Brazil from winning the World Cup

Some insects hide themselves beneath the surface of the soil

The restoration of the church was carried out circa 1845

This car will be yours for only 800 dollars down plus twelve installments of 185 dollars

The tableware is in the third drawer down

• ♥♡♥♡This /(or The/) entry below is from yesterday English entry/(= my English entry yesterday) , and now I am rewriting it according to one of my friend’s correction. And also I will record in Korean too. If you find my other mistakes(= any other mistakes ) , please correct them .

~~~WooOOoooh~~I am so tired that I am dozing off sitting at my desk.
• Oh, I can’t stand it any longer/(=any more/ .) So….I will talk about two topics very briefly.
• The first one is 'last night`s meeting' and the second topic is 'today’s visit to my son in the army.

---<Firstly:: about yesterday’s meeting.>---------------
• Yesterday evening I attended my husband's friend`s family meeting, and had dinner.
• It has been a long time SINCE we last met./= It had been a long time SINCE we (last) met./
• One of the families at the meeting will go to Sao Paulo Brazil next week.
• They aren't emigrating, they're just planning to stay for about 2 years.
• They said, they would like to experience (IN A new living environment. /)/(living in a new environment.)
• Isn `t that brave? What do you think about this?
• WHAT`S MORE that couple has two teenage boys.
• I hope they will be able to breath fresh air there.
• •And the other family has a special child.
• In fact, as a family who has a exceptional child, it is very difficult to live in Korea.///It is very difficult to live in Korea with an exceptional child. ///It is very difficult to live in Korea with a special needs child.
• .They have suffered many difficulties .( had = past only. have suffered = past continuous.)
• On the one hand I hope they will overcome these difficulties, and on the other hand, I hope Korean society will improve for disabled people.////
• I hope they can overcome these difficulties, and I also hope Korean society will improve its facilities for disabled people
• Oh, there is another good news! Two girls are going to college this spring.///Oh, there’s more good news! Two girls are starting college this spring.
• This is the best news to a Korean family.//This is great news .This news made all of us relieved.
• Usually, getting into a college is the most important thing to normal Korean family.
• .Yeah~ This is just our reality in today’s Korean society.
• • Well……anyway, I ate so much. We were on a family buffet/ =We went to a buffet , so I ate my fill of seafood=so I had a plate fulled of seafood , ate super sweet desserts, and chatted with them heartily.
• We were welcoming this Korean traditional New Year, and I hope we can love ourselves, hugs our families with love.
• Everyone knows while we live in this world the most important thing is ‘love’.

•--<The second thing: My visiting my son in?/at?the?military >---
•Today my husband and I visited [went to see] my son who is in the army. We went because our son wanted to see us.
• Oh,no~~!To tell you the truth, We knew preferred to see his stuff instead.
• So my husband and I went to the military base with a soondae;( a kind of blood sausage ) and his big mug-cup and a big bottle citron tea base. (*bottle of tea = drink now. bottle of tea base = mix with water to make tea)
• Last week when my son returned to the military army base , he seemed that he was a little( bit )nervous. I feel it was caused by his memory of when he first joined when he was a private (a common soldier). But today when I met him he seemed very relaxed. Haha^_^/ ~~ Probably because during his absence almost 10 months he became a superior. Time is passing, so when he returned, after 10 months in Afghanistan, he found there’s some changing. Time is passing, so when he returned, after 10 months in Afghanistan, (/he found some anging changes..)(/=things had changed.) He said it felt really good to take a hot shower. n Afghan there`s a time limit for using hot showers , so he had to shower very quickly. Sometimes he had to take a shower around dawn.
• And about ‘citron tea’!^^ Today he said to me this story, when he was private, he had envied that his superior drank that tea using his own /private big mug-cup.
Hahaha~~~ ^__________^)))))Now,, he would like to drink citron tea using his own big mug-cup , and besides he would try to share it with his all subordinates . Isn’t it fun? They are all kids!

• Em…. well now I am not sleepy. But I’d better go to bed. Sorry this got so long @.@/)))^^// See you soon !Have a good night!

Apparently, the size of dinosaurs changed along with vegetation

Don't forget to take your rain coat along

The four survivors of the blaze left hospital amid emotional scenes

No one had ever seen the list apart from the family lawyer

'It won't work' Mr Travis remarked apropos of the government's latest initiative to review pension plans

The view from atop the Empire State Building is fantastic!

My grandma put her arms about me and started to cry

By midnight there were only twelve guests and they were scattered about the gardens of the manor house

The plank on the kitchen table was about one meter across

I can't do 6 across

He told the police he had seen the woman slowly walking along the aisle of the church

What is fluency? When does one become fluent in a language? The only experience of fluency I have, is that of my mother tongue, which is English. I like to think I am
very proficient with the language. When I meet other native speakers who are less loquacious, and especially those with poor vocabulary, I find myself having to dumb down my lexis, simply because I might use words they have never heard, thus ending up seeming pompous, arrogant etc, etc. So are these people 'less' fluent? Or does it simply come down to me having a more varied vocabulary and thus being better equipped to convey ideas? I'm not trying to say I'm the most intelligent person I've ever met, there are one or two who are moreso

Is fluency actually ever achieved? Is it just close to the top end of an sliding scale of language proficiency, where the top is perfection, and therefore unattainable? Is intelligence a pre-requisite of fluency in a second language? Or vice versa even?

What I really want to know, is how did you know you were fluent? At what point did you take the plunge and say to friends and family, 'I am now fluent in x.'? What was the exact moment you realised you had advanced proficiency? I am much more
interested in hearing your personal perspectives, than being referred to information regarding philosophy/linguistic abstractions.

Any light shed on this will be most attentively and gratefully received.