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The study was undertaken to assess dietary habits and physical activity pattern on non communicable disease among college going girls. Inadequate physical activity and unhealthy dietary intake established during youth may extend into adulthood and may increase risk for non-communicable diseases. This study aims to investigate the effect of dietary habits and physical activity pattern on non-communicable diseases on college going girls. A cross-sectional study was conducted which was based on primary data of 100 college going girls belonging to (19-25 Years) of age were randomly selected from Lucknow University. A data was ascertained by self structured questionnaire, and it comprises three parts: (1) Socio-demographic characteristics of the students (2) Dietary habits (3) physical activity pattern of the selected sample. In the result it was found that 70 percent respondents were age group of 19-22 years and 30 percent were 20-25 years of age group. Results shows that 41 percent respondents were come under the category of underweight (>18.5 BMI), 53 percent comes in normal weight category, 3 percent comes in over weight and remaining 3 percent comes under obese category. The study also revealed that 40 percent found underweight, 13 percent having eye illness, 20 percent facing menstruation related problems, 11 percent anemia, 4 percent high B.P, 3 percent obesity, 1 percent heart disease and remaining 7 percent found thyroid. Statistically, positive correlation found between dietary habits and non-communicable diseases. Statistically, positive correlation was observed between physical activity and non-communicable diseases among respondents and insignificant association was found.