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Introduction: The aim of this study was to determine the rate between internet addiction and risk of obesity risk in primary school students. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted with a total of 358 students. Ethics committee approval and institutional permission as well as verbal and written consents of the students and their parents were obtained to conduct the study. Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis tests were used to carry out statistical analyses of the data. Findings: The average age of the students included in the study was 13.75±0.64 and they started using internet at age of 7.71±2.02. It was found that 44.3% used internet for more than five hours. While 51.7% of the students did not have breakfast on the internet, 32.8% skipped eating while using the internet. Also, it was found that while 13.4% of the students were obese, and 14.2% were overweight. The total score obtained by the students from the internet addiction test was 20.36±16.16. Conclusion: When scores of the internet addiction test were examined; a statistically significant difference was determined between the scores of the internet addiction test and the students’ percentile value, age, gender, period of internet use, the state of getting hungry at computer/ internet, and their mothers’ educational backgroun