Exercise Suppresses Appetite by Affecting Appetite Hormones

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 00:35 in Health & Medicine

A vigorous 60-minute workout on a treadmill affects the release of two key appetite hormones, ghrelin and peptide YY, while 90 minutes of weight lifting affects the level of only ghrelin, according to a new study. The research shows that aerobic exercise is better at suppressing appetite than non-aerobic exercise and provides a possible explanation for how that happens.

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