Social media has become an integral part of the lives of today's college students. Platforms such as Instagram, TikTok and YouTube not only influence lifestyles in general, but also play a role in shaping food preferences and food consumption behaviors. Content that promotes certain foods, both healthy and unhealthy, can influence a person's food choices. The approach taken in this study is a quantitative approach with a cross-sectional research design. The sample used in this study were 68 final year students of the Public Health Science study program at Universitas Negeri Manado. The data collection technique used a questionnaire distributed through Google Form. Based on the results of the study, it was found that there is a relationship between the use of social media and risky food consumption behavior of developing diabetes mellitus in students of Public Health Sciences, Universitas Negeri Manado (p-value = 0.001).
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