<![CDATA[Background: Adolescence is an age that is vulnerable to facing various nutritional problems, both malnutrition and excess nutrition. Excessive nutrition is a body condition where food intake exceeds the recommended daily requirements, causing fat accumulation. Overnutrition in adolescents can be seen through the Body Mass Index (BMI) according to age, where assessment results that exceed ≥+1 SD are included in the overnutrition category. Consumption of soft drinks is a risk factor that causes overnutrition due to excess sugar intake from these soda drinks. High intake of sweet drinks can increase overweight and can be a risk of metabolic disease. The recorded number of children and teenagers in Indonesia who were overweight or obese in 2018 was 20% or 7.6 million school children and 14.8% or 3.3 million teenagers. Purpose: To determine the relationship between soda drink consumption and overweight. Method: Observational research with a cross sectional approach. This research analyzes the relationship between the independent variable (frequency of soda consumption) and the dependent variable (more nutrients) which was carried out by collecting data at the same time. The population in this study were all tenth and eleventh grade students at SHS 1 Muhammadiyah, SHS 2 Muhammadiyah and Muhammadiyah Surakarta Special Program High School, with a sample of 104 respondents. The research was conducted at 3 Muhammadiyah High Schools in Surakarta on November 2022 – February 2024. Soda consumption data was collected using the Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ). Meanwhile, nutritional status data is carried out by anthropometric measurements such as height, weight and calculation of Body Mass Index (BMI) based on age (BMI/U). Results: It was found that there was no significant relationship between soda drink consumption and the incidence of overnutrition with a p-value of 0.794. Conclusion: There is no relationship between soda drink consumption and overnutrition.]]>
