Reading articles can be tricky given the amount of kanji, but with an add-on like rikaichan/kun, you can blast through this with a basic understanding of grammar:
The article we’ll be reading can be accessed by clicking on the picture of it below:
運動嫌いでも腸内環境を整えるだけでやる気が自然と湧いてくるという研究結果
Starting with the title, as always, you’ll want to be considering particles as the beginning and end of clauses and phrases; markers to help you separate out ideas. Here, でも, で and という are very important.
「運動は体にいい」ということは分かっていても、なかなかやる気が起きないという経験は誰しもあるはず。Natureに掲載された新しい研究により、腸内の環境を整えるだけで運動への「やる気」が湧いてくる可能性が指摘されました。
We have more usage of という in this part and throughout the article, helping signify concepts, themes and other points to be aware of, such as “exercise is good for the body”; “can’t get the motivation up to exercise” and the related square brackets to bring up the concept of “motivation” in the various forms.
ペンシルバニア大学のレンカ・ドナロヴァ氏らが着目したのは、腸内に生息するさまざまな細菌「腸内細菌叢(そう)」です。これまでの研究で腸内細菌叢の特定の微生物が食物を消化する際に化学物質を排出し、腸から脳へとつながる主要な神経を活性化させてうつ病などを改善することが分かっているなど、「腸と脳の関係」は切っても切れないものとして多くの研究で取り上げられています。
Quite tricky and you’ll need strong vocabulary skills regarding biology for this article, as we have words like
- 腸内・ちょうない・intestinal, inside the intestines
- 細菌叢・さいきんそう・bacterium, bacteria, germ plexus, rete
- 微生物・びせいぶつ・microbe, germ
- 化学物質・かがくぶっしつ・chemical substances, chemicals
- 脳・のう・brain
- 神経・しんけい・nerve
- うつ病・うつびょう・depression
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