Any diet or exercise, or both, intervention (e.g. healthy eating
plan, low glycaemic diet, exercise intervention, health education,
lifestyle counselling) compared with standard or routine care for
preventing excessive weight gain in pregnancy. We organised our
main comparison into different intervention types, as follows:
• diet counselling only versus routine care;
• diet and exercise counselling versus routine care;
• diet interventions (e.g. low glycaemic diet) versus routine
care;
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• exercise (supervised or unsupervised) interventions only
versus routine care;
• diet and supervised exercise interventions versus routine
care.
We defined diet as a special selection of food, or energy intake, to
which a participant was restricted. Exercise interventions included
any activity requiring physical effort, carried out to sustain or
improve health and fitness.