The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of yoga and brisk walking on selected Lipid Profiles of Non Insulin Dependent Diabetic Patients. For this purpose, Forty five (N=45) aged between 35 to 45 years working men in a private company at Hosur, Tamilnadu, India were randomly selected as subjects. The training programme was designed for 12 weeks and Experimental group I (n=15) underwent Yoga practices, Experimental group II (n=15) underwent brisk walking for 5 days per week for 12 weeks, group III acted as Control group, they were not allowed to involve any type of physical activities. Yoga and brisk walking were selected as Independent variables. Pre tests and Post test were conducted for all the subjects on the selected lipid Profiles of HDL (High Density Lipo Protein) LDL (Low Density Lipo Protein). The collected data were analysed by using Dependent ‘t - test’ and Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was applied to find out the effect of Yoga and brisk walking on selected Lipid Profiles and scheffe’s Post hoc method was used for testing the significance between paired adjusted means. The level of significance was 0.05. The results of the study indicated that the effect of yoga and brisk walking had significantly improved the HDL (High Density Lipo Protein) and LDL (Low Density Lipo Protein) of Non Insulin Dependent Diabetic Patients., {"references":["1.\tTaskinen MR. Diabetic dyslipidemia. Athresclet Suppl, 2002; 3: 47-51. 2.\tMooradian AD. Dyslipidemia in type 2 diabetes mellitus. Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab, 2009; 5: 150-9. 3.\tFord ES, Mokdad AH, Giles WH, Mensah GA. Serum total cholesterol concentrations and awareness, treatment and control of hypercholesterolemia among US adults: finding for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999 to 2000. Circul, 2003; 107: 2185-9. 4.\tImperatore G, Cadwell BL, Geiss L. Thirty year trends in cardiovascular risk factor levels among US adults with diabetes: National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, 1971-2000. Am J Epidemiol, 2004; 160: 531-9. 5.\tShantakumari N, Sequeira S, Rasha EL. Effects of yoga intervention on lipid profiles of diabetes patients with dyslipidemia. Ind Heart J, 2013; 65: 127-31. 6.\tMahajan AS, Reddy KS, Sachdeva U. Lipid profile of coronary risk subjects following yogic lifestyle intervention. Ind Heart J, 1999; 51: 37-40. 7.\tDamodaran A, Malathi A, Patil N, Shah N, Suryananshi MS. Therapeutic potential of yoga practices in modifying cardiovascular risk profile in middle aged men and women. J AssocPhysc India, 2002; 50: 633-40. 8.\tSkarfors ET, Wegener TA, Lithell H, Selinus I. Physical training as treatment for type 2 (non insulin dependent) diabetes in elderly men. A feasible study over 2 years. Diabetolgia, 1987; 30: 930-3. 9.\tSingh S. Malhotra V, Singh KP, Madhu SV, Tandon OP. Role of yoga in modifying certain cardiovascular functions in type 2 diabetic patients. J Assoc Physc India, 2004; 52: 203-7. 10.\tManchnada SC, Narang R, Reddy KS, Sachdev V. Retardation of coronary atherosclerosis with yoga lifestyle intervention. J Assoc Physc India, 2000; 48: 487-94. 11.\tVyas R, Dikshit N. Effect of meditation on respiratory system, cardiovascular system and lipid profile. Ind J Physiol Pharmacol, 2002; 46: 487-91. 12.\tBijlani RL, Vempati RP, Yadav RK. A brief but comprehensive lifestyle education program based on yoga reduces risk factors for cardiovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus. J Altern Complement Med, 2005; 11: 267-74. 13.\tGiugliano D. Morphine, opioid peptides and pancreatic islet function. Diab care, 1984; 7: 92-8. 14.\tHabib SS, Aslam M, Naveed AK, Razi MS. Comparison of lipid profiles and lipoprotein a levels in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus during oral hypoglycemic or insulin therapy. Saudi Med J, 2006; 27: 174-80. 15.\tVyas R, Raval KV, Dikshit N. Effect of Raja yoga meditation on the lipid profile of post menopausal women. Ind J Physiol Pharmacol, 2008; 52: 420-4"]}