*** 6분영어 (Hangry: are you angry when you're hungry?) > 중.고등교육 게시판

오랜만에 자료 올립니다.

제가 워킹맘이다보니 많이 바쁘고 정신이 없네요 ^^

꾸준히 못올리고 들쭉날쭉 하더라도 이해해 주세요 ^^

이번주 주제는 [hangry] 네요.

자세히 보기전까지는 hungry에 대한 얘기인 줄 알았어요.

제 주변에도 배가 고프면 유난히 irritable 해지는 사람들이 있어요.

오늘 내용을 보니 이런 감정은 과학적으로 정상적인 반응인가봐요.

배고플때 화가나는 이유에대한 설명과

portmanteau words에 대한 소개가 있어요.

우리말로는 혼성어라고 하네요.

한글에서도 많이 생기고 있지요.

예를들어 brunch를 아점이라고 하는데 이런것도 해당되지 않나 싶네요.

English has quite a few words which are made by joining two different words together like ‘hangry’, for example: brunch, motel, Brexit. What do we call these words? Are they…

Britain + exit : 영국의 EU 탈퇴.

Sophie Medlin (lecturer in nutrition and dietetics at King’s College London)

‘hangry‘ actually appeared in the 1990s – so a little before the arrival of social media. But it’s certainly true that social media has made it more prominent.

We’ve long recognised that hunger leads to irritability - in science. But the wonderful world of social media has merged the two words for us and now we know it as hanger.

As the blood sugars drop, we increase our cortisol and adrenalin – so our kind of fight or flight hormones – and those have an impact on our brain and the neuropeptides – the things that control our brain, the chemicals in our brain, the ones the trigger for hunger are the same ones that trigger for anger and also for rage and impulsive type behaviours. So that’s why you get that sort of same response.

When we are hungry the level of sugar in our blood is lower and this causes an increase in particular hormones. Hormones are the chemicals we make in our bodies that control certain biological and psychological functions.

The hormones released when we are hungry are the same as our fight or flight hormones. They are the hormones that the body uses to prepare us to either fight or run away from a dangerous situation.

When these hormones are increased, it can cause anger and rage.

And when we are angry we can behave impulsively.

So when we are hungry, the same emotions can run through us. We can be angry and make poor decisions. And that is hanger.