THE MACRONUTRIENTS ESSENCE INTAKE AND LEARNING ACHIEVEMENTS IN ADOLESCENT 16-18 YEARS OLD

Abstract

Adolescents 16-18 years old have special nutritional needs because they are in late adolescence, intake of nutrients that are balanced and according to the needs of adolescents will help adolescents achieve optimal growth and development. Food is one of the basic needs of every human being. Food contains nutrients needed to grow and develop. Eating adequate and regular food will create a healthy body and glorious achievement, a fit body, and quality human resources. This research contains about the intake of macronutrients such as Carbohydrates, Proteins, and Fats by adolescents that affect learning achievement. This study uses an observational analytic research design with a Cross-Sectional approach. Data removal is done with a nutrient recall questionnaire for 3 days. The sample in this study was 71 students of Senior High School. The results of this study, 63.32% of students have moderate protein intake with good performance, 36.62% of students have moderate fat intake with good learning achievement and 64.79% of students have good carbohydrate intake with good learning achievement. Based on the Pearson product-moment correlation test results, the correlation between protein intake and learning achievement obtained a value of 0.752, it can be seen there is a relationship between protein intake and learning achievement, the correlation between fat intake and learning achievement yields -0.118, then it can be seen there is no relationship of fat intake with learning achievement and the correlation between carbohydrate intake and learning achievement values obtained 0.433, it can be seen that there is no relationship between carbohydrate intake and learning achievement