Given the multiple chronic diseases which are linked to obesity, this study focusing on the awareness regarding causes, consequences, and strategies to prevent and control of obesity among working women and housewives. Specifically in countries like India, obesity is culturally accepted and women face up highest weight gain in recent time. In this study, we tried to assess the knowledge about contributing factors for obesity, awareness towards structured teaching programs and its effectiveness and association between knowledge on obesity with selected demographic variables like age, education status, income, type of family, number of children, etc. Based on the study, we can say that the prevalence of overweight and obesity are gaining momentum at slow and steady pace and the awareness of obesity is more in working women compare to housewives which results higher BMI percentage in housewives. Factors like decreased exercise, less physical activity, less intake of fiber foods andfast-food consumption were seen to be positively associated with weight gain.
