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Major risk factors for lifestyle diseases are present with priest's lifestyle. Daily responsibility of priests includes, sitting mostly for long working hours & taking high calorie diet in form of Prasad. Predisposition to these may give rise to lifestyle diseases. The need of study is find prevalence of obesity in Hindu Priests who endure long hours of duty while seated cross-legged and motionless so that a best exercise schedule can be followed by them regularly to prevent the onset of all the mentioned diseases at an early age. Method - - The study consist of 101 participants chosen according to inclusion and exclusion criteria ,BMI and WHR was measured and finding was noted, Acquired data was entered into statistical software. Result - There is high risk of CVD in this population. Conclusion - This study concluded that there is high prevalence of obesity that is 55% among these population by using BMI and 90% were having risk of developing lifestyle diseases by using WHR.