[영어뉴스] Advantages of taking nap

 

 

 

To nap or not to nap, that is the next question. Sometimes we just feel like we need a midday slumber or maybe a lot of times we feel that way. 

* feel like: - 하고 싶다 / 할 것 같다 

I feel like eating sushi = I'm in the mood for getting some sushi. 

I feel like it's going to rain soon

 

You know that one-third of adults in the United States take a nap during the day? That's according to the Pew Research Center.

* according to: -에 따르면

 

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta says a little siesta might be more helpful for our brain than we might think.

* siesta: 낮잠 = nap

 

There's a bunch of experimental American studies and what they looked at was essential for the people who napped versus didn't nap had any cognitive benefits.

* a bunch of: 많은 = many / a lot of 

* congnitive: 인식의, 인식력있는 / cognitive power: 인지 능력

 

These studies showed that it looked like people who took a nap did have better cognitive function so their thinking skills improved.

 

whether that be things like how quickly you process things, your memory, those sorts of thinking skills.

 

So the biggest takeaway is that we found a very clear effect of having a break in the daytime nap on the total size of the brain. 

* takeaway: 느낀 점, 배운 점 / key takeaway, main takeaway, the biggest takeaway 영국식은 포장음식점으로 사용됨

 

The study found that people who had regular naps saw on objective differenc in brain size compared to those who didn't. 

* objective: 객관적으로

 

We know that as we age our brains shirnk and that can be associated with cognitive decline. 

* be associated with: ~와 관련이 있는

 

What she's fundamentally saying is that people who napped regularly in many ways had younger brains than those who didn't.

 

Is there a right length of a nap and is it possible to sleep or nap too much? One of the issues the people say often if you sleep for too long in the day, is you wake up feeling groggy? You wake up feeling worse?

 

That's because you've gone into deep sleep. Your brain is preparing and mimicking that sleep at night. And thinks you're not ready to sleep for the rest of the day. 

 

So in order to avoid that we've been quite conservative and said well maybe something up to about 30 minutes.