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Purpose: The research was to investigate the relationship between Internet addiction and eating behaviors of college students. Methods: Sampled for sake of convenience, 507 college students in Kwang-ju and Chun-nam area were surveyed from September 3rd to September 10th 2008. The contents of the survey consist of general, academic, health behavior, internet usage, internet addiction and eating habit traits. Results: 49.3% of subjects were appeared to be addicted to internet, while male students had higher addiction rate of 54.9% than female student with 40.3%. Significantly, eating behaviors are worse in the group of mild and serious internet addiction, arts students, the group that recognizes its living standard as normal or richer, and also in the group that takes breakfast less seriously. These groups were appearing 47.0% of addiction rate. Conclusion: For college students, internet addiction was proved to be effective significantly in eating behavior. It is required to establish appropriate measures such as internet usage control to settle proper eating behavior of college students.