Obesity is one of emerging health problems of 21st century. World Health Organisation ( WHO) has declared Obesity as one of top ten health risk in the world ( 2000) and this is because it increases the risk of life threatning conditions. To reduce weight many diets are available and people follow them without knowing their repercussions. A fad diet is a weight loss plan or aid that promises dramatic results. These diets typically don't result in long-term weight loss and they are usually not very healthy. In fact, some of these diets can actually be dangerous to your health. Mono diet is defined as diet in which only one type of food product is eaten per day e.g. potatoes in a day nothing else. The present study was carried out on three hundred and twenty subjects selected randomly from five hundred Obese subjects.The subjects involved in this study has made extreme efforts to lose weight. They followed mono / fad diets plus exercises as well to reduce their weight in the past. Then these subjects were counseled and given nutritionally adequate dietary guidance so that they could lose weight in a healthy way. The subjects were divided into three experimental groups E1, E2 & E3 and a control group. E1 group was doing exercise only, E2 was following hypocaloric diet and E3 followed Exercise plus hypocaloric diet. Control group followed regimen on their own. The Dietary intake of E1, E2 & E3 in terms of energy, proteins, fats, carbohydrates was calculated before and after intervention based on dietary survey method. The anthropometric measurements were also found out before and after interventions which were reduced to significant levels. The study included to judge the effect of excess weight on the nutritional status of the young adults as well as to assess the efficacy of three common weight reducing interventions i.e EI ( Exercise ), E2 ( Hypocaloric diet), E3 ( Exercise plus Hypocaloric diet) in the subsamples of the above selected subjects.. The nutrition education and dietary counselling was provided and positive reduction in weight was achieved.
