Impact of educational interventionon programme and bio chemical change on overweight and obesityamong adolescent school children in Cuddalore District

Introduction: Overweight and obesity among adolescent school children has been observed in recent years in most countries. The majority of overweight and obese adolescent children will become obese adults having an increased risk for chronic diseases associated with obesity, with a negative impact on their lifespan. Objective: Assessing the overweight and obesity and prevalence among adolescent school children and also to study the association of obesity with dietary food pattern in formations knowledge on overweight and obesity among adolescent. To determine the effectiveness of structured teaching programme. Methods: Out of the 1384 government and private schools, listed under the Directorate of Education, Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, 20 schools were selected .The samples were selected by using a convenient simple random sampling technique. The samples sizes were selected for this study was 750 samples from that over weight are 512 and obese adolescents are 234. Totally 750 participants were included in the final study in Cuddalore District Tamil Nadu. Results: Thus the difference in the changes was confirmed by the obtained t-Test test value of Total Cholesterol TC (72.68) was significant at 0.001 levels, Triglycerides TG (59.81) was significant at 0.001 levels, and Low density lipoprotein LDL (99.33) was significant at 0.001 levels. High density lipoprotein HDL (-50.146) was significant at 0.001 levels. And Blood glucose level (BGL) (16.54)) was significant at 0.001 levels. Conclusion: The present study concludes that the education intervention program me improved the dietary food pattern in formations knowledge of adolescents regarding overweight and obesity. Prevalence of obesity and over weight is on rise in Indian adolescent children, highlighting the possible role of change in the dietary pattern, and practicing day today life physical activities, and change the food habits, counting the calorie consumption, increase the fluid intake, avoid junk food and carbonated beverages and mental attitude will overcome the problems and along with parents and schools environmental play important role to overcome reduce obesity and overweight and its complications.