Penyuluhan Pentingnya Menjaga Kesehatan dalam Mengkonsumsi Minuman Kemasan pada Remaja di Sekolah SMP Bethany Medan

Simbolon, Pomarida
Surbakti, Angeli Br
Sipayung, Eunice Kristia
Sihaloho, Flower Desma
Hura, Iman Anugrah Selamat
Marbun, Kajol Santa Monica
Silaban, Patricia Tio Gabriella
Simbolon, Rield Rivaldo Benediktus

EMPOWERMENT: Journal of Community Practice
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2025): EMPOWERMENT: Journal of Community Practice

The risks of soft drink consumption are such as overweight and obesity, dental caries, diabetes, osteoporosis and bone fractures. To prevent this, it is necessary to make efforts to provide health education so that people can control their lifestyle in a better direction. One of the objectives of health education is counseling on the importance of maintaining health in consuming packaged drinks in adolescents at Bethany Junior High School Medan. The result of the counseling that has been carried out on adolescents is to play an active role in counseling activities on the importance of maintaining health in consuming packaged drinks for adolescents at Bethany Junior High School in Medan. The purpose of this counseling activity on the Importance of Maintaining Health in Consuming Packaged Drinks in Adolescents was carried out as an effort to increase knowledge about the importance of maintaining health in consuming packaged drinks. To achieve the purpose of counseling, the methods used are lectures and the provision of health education information about the importance of maintaining health in consuming packaged drinks in adolescents. The results of counseling to teenagers at Bethany Medan Junior High School showed that the average knowledge score before and after health education was carried out had a difference of 2.37 points