Impact of Nutrition Education Program on Prevention of Obesity Among Adolescent Girls in Ballia District of Uttar Pradesh: An Analytical Study

Abstract

Obesity is the key element of  carried out the  disease  at  mostly earlier stages of their life, it developed the various types of  “non-communicable diseases (Parajuli & Prangthip, 2025; Behrman, 2020).  the main diseases of  diabetes and cardiovascular diseases” are seen at the mostly younger age (S, Rohilla, Kalyani, & Babbar, 2021). Nutrition extension program in schools/collage are explored the  key strategy to address these issues by promoting good eating habits and increasing awareness of the consequences of poor nutrition. Keeping in view of the above said the conducted study was exploring  the effectiveness of nutrition extension programs in preventing obesity among adolescents’ girls.  The present study conducted on the selected Inter College in Dubhar and Bansdih on the basis of origin of college in the  Block in Ballia District of Uttar Pradesh. 12 Obese adolescent girls from each Inter College were selected making a total 120 obese adolescent girls, BMI classification (WHO) was used for Obesity. Nutrition extension education programme on prevention of obesity was imparted to obese adolescent girls in groups through lecture method and display of chart, poster and distribution of pamplet and their doubts were cleared. Significant improvement in BMI status was found after nutrition extension education. After intervention statically change was found the normal BMI increased between obesity respondent the numerical 0 to 27. The result indicates that the nutrition extension educational program is seen the significantly positive and healthy impact on reducing obesity/overweight among adolescent girls. The study concludes that obesity among adolescent girl is strongly influenced by less physical activity, poor nutritional knowledge, unhealthy lifestyle and unhealthy dietary pattern because these factors contribute to increased obesity during adolescent age. findings confirm that the structured nutrition education programme had a positive impact on obesity prevention among adolescent girls.