The results of this study indicate that nutrition education without supplementation can be effective in improving dietary intake and maternal weight gain but its mediating influence on low-frequency pregnancy outcomes is indeterminate in a population that is not nutritionally at risk. The most encouraging result with respect to neonatal health is that intervention was positively associated with a reduction in the prematurity rate. Overall,the good mean birth weight in both the intervention and the control groups and the relatively low incidence of low-birth-weight infants can be attributed to the absence ofserious nutritional deficiencies in the study population
before or during pregnancy.Computer analysis ofnutrient intake data was