이번주 수요 시사영어 강의 기사 : 부정적인 성향의 사람은 치매 조심해야

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여러분 안녕하세요?
이번 주에는 부정적인 성향이 뇌에 해로울 수 있다는 내용을 가지고
영어훈련하겠습니다.

부정적인 성향이 건강에 해롭다는 것,
심지어 조기 사망에 이를 수도 있다는 것은
그동안의 여러 연구를 통해 많이 알려져 있다고 합니다.

하지만, 최근 나온 연구는
그 부정적인 성향이 치매 발생의 원인일 수 있음을
발견했습니다.

제 모친께서 올초 치매 진단을 받으셔서
치매 관련 자료를 찾다가 이 글을 우연히 발견하게 되었는데요,
젊은 시절 삶의 무게로 제 모친께서 부정적인 성향을
갖게 되신 것 같아 안타까울 뿐입니다.

다행히도, 부정적인 성향은 노력에 따라서는
바뀔 수 있다고 하는데요,
어떻게 해야하는지 알아보기로 하겠습니다.

Distrusting and Cynical? You May be Hurting Your Brain

Your spouse “had to stay late at work” – are you skeptical? Do you think your friend doesn’t like you if he cancels dinner plans? Do you suspect that your co-worker is putting her ambitions ahead of the team?

Curmudgeons of the world, listen up: This line of negative thinking might actually hurt your health.

A new study in the latest edition of Neurology, the journal of the American Academy of Neurology, found that cynical people have a higher likelihood of developing dementia.

“There have been previous studies that showed that people who were cynical were more likely to die earlier and have other poor health outcomes, but no one that we could tell ever looked at dementia,” said Anna-Maija Tolppanen, one of the study’s authors and a professor at the University of Eastern Finland. “We have seen some studies that show people who are more open and optimistic have a lower risk for dementia so we thought this was a good question to ask.”

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