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BACKGROUND Lifestyle is a way of living which depends on geographical, cultural, social, economic, political, and religious characteristics. An individual’s lifestyle is defined by many factors such as his daily physical activities, diet, nutrition, stress, alcohol consumption, drug abuse, smoking, sleep etc. Disorder means disruption in the normal physical or mental functioning of body. Lifestyle disorders are disorders related with way one lives his life. Lifestyle disorders include cardiovascular diseases, musculoskeletal diseases, stroke, depression, chronic obstructive lung disease, diabetes mellitus, chronic respiratory disease, and certain types of cancers like lung cancer, cervical cancer etc. Risk factors for lifestyle disorders are physical inactivity, excessive use of alcohol, smoking, wrong body posture, obesity, unhealthy diet. The focus of this study was to determine the knowledge, attitude and practices in the rural communities towards lifestyle disorders. METHODS This observational study was conducted among 394 participants aged between 20 and 45 years who were selected from Malkapur, Karad, through simple random sampling method. Out of 394 subjects, 181 were males and 213 were females. A structured questionnaire which involved 30 questions based on knowledge, attitude and practices regarding lifestyle disorders was used in this study. RESULTS In this study it was found that, out of 394 participants, 34 % (132) participants had good knowledge regarding lifestyle disorders, 18 % (70) participants had positive attitude towards lifestyle disorders and only 13 % (61) participants were actually practicing healthy habits (P-value = < 0.0001). After comparison between two age groups 20 - 32 years (181) and 33 – 45 years (213) it was indicated that there was significant association between the practice score with P-value of 0.0004 and chi square value of 15.45. CONCLUSIONS Above study concluded that the participants had adequate knowledge about lifestyle disorders, but they lacked positive attitude and healthy practices towards lifestyle disorders. KEY WORDS Lifestyle Disorders, Knowledge, Attitude, Practices

Objectives: 1. To assess the menstrual disorders of adolescent girls of selected schools of Navi Mumbai. 2.To identify the dietary habits of adolescent girls of selected schools of Navi Mumbai. 3.To findout the association between dietary habits and menstrual disorders among the adolescent girls.Materials and Method: A descriptive study was conducted among the adolescent girls at MGM School of Navi Mumbai, India from Oct.2021 to Dec. 2021 to analyze the association of dietary habits & menstrual disorders among adolescent girls. Numerical pain scale, modified women's health questionnaire and daily diary were used to collect data from 100 adolescent girls. Non probability purposive sampling technique was used to select adolescent girls.Result: The mean age of menarche was 12.9±2.7 years. The study showed that girls were experienced moderate menstrual pain 54%, severe menstrual pain 21% and premenstrual symptoms were identified in 36% adolescence girls. More than 42% of the participants eat fast food and many of the girls were habits of skipping the meals in the afternoon. It was found that, there was a significant association between dietary habits and menstrual problems (p= Conclusion: The menstrual disorders were emerging problems in the adolescent girls of schools of Navi Mumbai. Daily intake of appropriate amount of protein, CHO, Fat, Vitamins and Minerals can help to reduce menstrual problems facing by adolescent girls.