ABSTRACT
A nutrition survey of 170 pregnant women of the Han, Miao and Buyi nationality in the middle and late pregnancy was conducted in 1984. The survey included dietary survey, physical and obstetrical examination, biochemical analysis and measurement of weight and height of the newborns of the women studied. The results showed that their calorie intake was substantially suficient to the RDA but the protein intake was inadequate. The proportion of high quality protein was more than 30% of total protein intake for the Han, but less than 25% for the other two nationalities. The calcium and vitamin B2 intakes were much lower than RDA for all the women studied. The retinol intake was only about 73% of RDA for the Han in the late pregnancy. The incidence of nutritional anaemia was 26.92-50.00% among the 170 pregnant women. The weight-height of the newborns has no significant difference among three nationalities and all indices of physical development status were in medium rank on an average.