Exercise suppresses appetite by affecting appetite hormones
Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 06:57
in Health & Medicine
A vigourous 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. Taken together, the research shows that aerobic exercise is better at suppressing appetite than non-aerobic exercise and provides a possible explanation for how that happens...