According to U.K researchers, aerobic exercise can prove more helpful to suppress appetite than some non-aerobic activity.

In this study, 11 university students (male) were involved who took part in three kinds of sessions. In the first session, they were asked to run on a treadmill for 60min, and then took rest for seven hrs. In the other session, the participants were asked to do weight training for 90min and then took rest for 6.5 hrs. In the last session, the participants didn’t perform any exercise.

In every session, these students got two meals and they were also asked to report hunger levels at different points in every session. Then the researchers noted the levels of ghrelin and peptide YY—two basic appetite hormones—among the participants.

The researchers found that the levels of ghrelin decreased while the levels of peptide YY increased in the treadmill session that identified the hormones were stemming appetite. In the weight training session, the researchers found that the levels of ghrelin had dropped, but there wasn’t any considerable change in the levels of peptide YY.

The researchers found that running on the treadmill as well as weight training helped to suppress hunger, but they found a greater stemming in hunger with aerobic exercise. The study has been published online in the Journal Physiology.