I don’t think that’d be much of a surprise if you read much literature on exercise—exercise improving mood & cognition is a pretty common result.
I knew of the literature you mention (well, not the specific literature, but that’s not the point) - which is precisely what caused me to look at it—but I thought other factors would still be more correlative. I would have thought sleep, stress, recreation time, or social time would be more predictive. But those barely correlate.
Or vice versa? (I feel very hungry on modafinil—does hunger cause me to use modafinil?)
I quite intentionally didn’t say one caused the other. But I wouldn’t expect the primary causality to flow from energy to eating, as opposed to from eating to energy. (Or, yes, from a common third cause)
I knew of the literature you mention (well, not the specific literature, but that’s not the point) - which is precisely what caused me to look at it—but I thought other factors would still be more correlative. I would have thought sleep, stress, recreation time, or social time would be more predictive. But those barely correlate.
I quite intentionally didn’t say one caused the other. But I wouldn’t expect the primary causality to flow from energy to eating, as opposed to from eating to energy. (Or, yes, from a common third cause)