Prevalence of Lifestyle Diseases and the Impact of Nutrition Education Programme among the Professionals of Corporate Sector

Lifestyle diseases are associated with the way a person or group of people lives. Higher income and work pressures along with sedentary nature of job have made young Software professionals prone to modern lifestyle diseases like obesity and other health problems which can be lowered with changes in diet, lifestyle, and environment. The present research was designed to study the prevalence of lifestyle diseases and the impact of nutrition education programme among the professionals of corporate sector. The nutritional status of the employees was assessed by selected anthropometric measurements before and after the nutrition education programme. The results obtained were analyzed and subjected to student’s t test and significant difference was compared with the control group who did not receive the nutrition education programme.