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Urbanisation is a process of changing the social and environmental landscape( WHO 2010) the growth of urban environment has a profound effect on cultural change. The predominant cultural change is witnessed in the food habits. Modern society is highly associated with a diet pattern where consumption of high processed foods, genetically modified food and foods that contain high amount of saturated fats leaving to a corresponding increase in degenerative disease. These disease are interrelated with lifestyles and especially with diets. Changes in diet, pattern of work and leisure is often referred to as the nutrition transition. Nutrition transition includes both qualitative and quantitative changes in the diet. Objectives of the study 1. To study role of urbanization leading to the changes of diet pattern among women. 2. To analyse the social factors of nutrition transition among women . 3. To identify the health problems faced by women due to nutrition transition. Relevance of the Study In the urban areas rapid nutrition transition is taking place. The impact of this transition affects women's health which is leading to different types of life threatening health deformities like diabetes, CHD, infertility, cancer, etc This Study is intended to analyse the social cultural factors leading to the nutrition transition in the urban city of Chennai. This is a descriptive study , the data is collected from two generation of women belonging to the age group between 20 to 40 years of age and women belonging to the age group of 40 and above through a simple random sampling method . The research analyses the social construction of dietary changes due to the influence of urbanization and identifies the health determinants of a women in the contemporary society.