The results ofthis 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. [3
Computer analysis ofnutrient intake data was