Prevalensi Obesitas Pada Remaja Di SMA Kristen Tumou Tou Kota Bitung

: Obesity is a multifactorial disease, which is caused by excessive accumulation of fat tissue. So that it can be detrimental to health. Children who had obesity tend to have obesity during their adulthood. The school age of children have risks to get obesity. Ignoring breakfast and tend to consume fast food, tend to make teenagers at risk of suffering obesity.The research aim to identify the obese prevalence of adolescent at Tumou Tou Christian Senior High School Bitung City. The method of research used cross sectional descriptive approach. Samples were taken of 137 people aged 13-18 years by using simple random sampling. Based on the results of waist circumference there were 17 students obtained obese category. However, by using IMT examination there were only 5 students found obese category. Therefore, it can be concluded that the prevalence of obesity in adolescent is equal to 12.40% of the sample, and consists of 2.91% boys and 9.5% among girls