In recent years the prevalence of obesity has increased reaching epidemic levels. Obesity can be defined as excess accumulation of body fat arising from a sustained or a periodic positive energy balance that is when energy intake exceeds energy expenditure. Overweight and obesity is based on Body Mass Index (BMI) Accordingly to the World Health Organization (WHO) classifies individuals with BMI 25-29.99 kg/m2 as overweight while individuals with BMI≥ 30 kg/m2 are termed obese. Apart from being a major contributor to chronic disease burden and mortality, obesity-particularly abdominal obesity, is also closely related to the metabolic syndrome, a cluster of diseases that encompasses the following conditions Dyslipidemia, Hypertension Glucose intolerance and insulin resistance.Abdominal obesity The World Health Organization predicts there will be 2.3 billion overweight adults in the world by 2015, and more than 700 million of them will be obese. Worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980. In 2008, 1.5 billion adults, 20 years of age and older, were overweight. Of these, over 200 million men and nearly 300 million women were obese. Over 65% of the world population lives in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight .