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Obesity is considered to be the fifth cause of death world-wide due to rapid changes in lifestyle. Many different dietary and exercise regimes have been found effective in reducing body weight and improving cardiovascular risk factors and blood glucose level, hypertension and non alcoholic fatty liver diseases. In developing countries literature related to obesity is limited. Most of the obesity-related studies in India had been carried out in metropolitan cities. In this paper, it is aimed to study the association between health risk and obesity in a typical developing city of India, Patna. Review of health risks of obesity is important in order to increase the pool of available information in India and to draw attention to obesity and its attendant health risks. If weight reduction is carried out without involving physical workout then analysis based would reveal actual association between health risk and obesity, which has been done in this study. This study becomes has more relevance for old aged people because they have much restricted physical activity due to obvious reasons. It was revealed all the health complications under study: Anemia, Diabetes, High Cholesterol, high Blood TG level, high Blood TSH level, high SGPT level, high SGOT level, high Uric Acid level, high BP, low BP were significantly alleviated by weight loss in the participants. This gives a further scope of study to plan diet schedule for speedy recovery from health complications.