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Indonesia have a double burden in nutritional problems, nutritional problems which are not only focused on undernutrition but also overnutrition. Over nutrition is a condition of increased body weight due to excessive accumulation of body fat. The role of food is changing in today's lifestyle, food is not only a primary need to meet the nutritional needs needed by the body, but also to reflect lifestyle. Inappropriate eating behavior in adolescents will cause disruption and nutritional problems in adolescents. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of nutrition education on changes adolescents’s energy intake in Cikulur District. The method used quasi experimental with one group pretest and posttest design. The subjects in this study were 59 teenagers. Energy intake data was taken using a 24 hour food recall questionnaire. The result showed there was a significant influence between nutrition education and adolescents’s energy intake changes in Cikulur District (p <0.005). The average pretest energy intake was 3276.58 Kcal and the average posttest energy intake was 2574.86 Kcal. In this research, nutrition education had changes effect in adolescent energy intake.

Adolescent, Energy Intake, Nutrition Education